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For most of my life, I was not wandering around looking for ghosts. I was not lighting candles in a velvet cape, whispering into the veil, asking Uncle Larry to knock twice if he approved of my life choices. I was a mother. A professional marketer. A practical person living a practical life. Then Vern died — my beloved fiancé and best friend of twenty-three years. And everything I thought I knew about reality cracked open. Vern was not just a love story. He was the rarest kin

For the last century, mainstream science has mostly treated the brain like a fancy meat computer. Neurons fire. Thoughts happen. Consciousness lives inside the skull. Case closed. Please collect your lab coat at the door. But for many of us, that explanation has never been enough. Some of us have had experiences that don’t fit inside the current model: psi phenomena, near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, mediumship, UFO encounters, synchronicities, premonitions, v

The modern use case for bliss, enlightenment, and not losing your mind in traffic. So, you’ve noticed everyone and their yoga instructor is talking about meditation, and you’re wondering if you missed the memo on how to become a “Zen master” while still living on coffee, group texts, and deadline-induced panic. Fair question. At its core, all this buzz points toward something researchers sometimes call Fundamental Wellbeing — or, for those who enjoy making spiritual experienc

A Layman’s Guide to the Top 3 Theories of Consciousness from a science propspective The quest to understand how the three-pound organ in our heads creates the feeling of "being" is one of science's greatest challenges, often called the "Hard Problem". In recent years, researchers have moved from philosophical speculation to "adversarial collaborations"—massive experiments designed to pit the most eminent theories against each other. Here are the top three theories currently l