http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_mutation
Aren't we supposed to be smarter and more evolved than these guys? Why can’t we do this? Apparently we can!
Researcher Richard Davidson recently teamed up with the Dalai Lama and found that many Tibetan monks have physically altered the structure of their brain, allowing them to produce brainwaves far beyond the capabilities of your average Joe (gamma waves, also found in peak performance athletes) - accessed by meditating on universal love and compassion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43006-2005Jan2.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/dalai.html
Plants eavesdrop for defense
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060306_plant_defense.html
From the hilarious book Stiff by Mary Roach - our cells seem to be directly connected with our consciousness at any distance
"General Stubblebine commissioned a senior aide to try and replicate an experiment done by Cleve Baxter, inventor of the lie detector, which purported to show that the cells of a human being, removed from that human being's being, were in some way still connected to, and able to communicate with, the mother ship. In the study, cells were taken from the inside of a volunteer's cheek, centrifuged, and put in a test tube. A readout from electrodes in the test tube was run through a sensor hooked up to the readout on a lie detector, which measures emotional excitation via heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, etc. The volunteer was escorted to a room down the hall from his cheek cells and shown a disturbing videotape of unspecified violent scenes. The cells registered a state of extreme agitation while their owner was watching the tape. The experiment was repeated at different distances over the course of two days. Even as far away as fifty miles, the cells felt the man's pain."
The universe is pretty awesome.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
plants can tell who's who
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070611/full/070611-4.html
Night-shining clouds being spotted across the globe:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070629-clouds-picture.html
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I took relaxation classes, which changed to creative visualization/meditation, with Anna Wise (she's now in the US) who worked with Maxwell Cade, who wrote _The Awakened Mind_. I was going to continue by working with Cade, who was measuring brainwave activity, but decided not to, I forgot now why not. Anyway. Because of my time with her and what I know about his work I believe completely in this and have for some while.
Autogenics is good too but also not cheap (I was taught it free).
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