The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation - When it first appeared, The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation drew wide attention within the meditation community and eventually sold out. Its authors, Michael Murphy and Steven Donovan, leaders in the American growth center movement and themselves seasoned meditators, presented their bibliography as a project of the Center for Exceptional Functioning, a newly-founded program within Esalen Institute. (Website)

Meditation, Positive Emotions and Brain Science - Richard Davidson is one of the world's foremost brain scientists. He is the Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Davidson is a graduate of New York University and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976. (Website)

Is Meditation the Push-Up for the Brain? Study Shows Practice May Have Potential to Change Brain's Physical Structure - Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation may indeed be good for all of us since, alas, our brains shrink naturally with age. (Website)

Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works - If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works. Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to "let them go." (Website)

Study Shows Compassion Meditation Changes the Brain - Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Website)

Meditation on the Brain: a Conversation with Andrew Newberg - Dr. Andrew Newberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has researched the neurophysiological correlates of meditation, prayer, and how brain function is associ-ated with mystical and religious experiences. (Website)

Meditation Research - Welcome to our Meditation Research site. This site aims to share with you some of the scientifically studied phenomena associated with the state of consciousness called thoughtless awareness, an experiential phenomenon particularly associated with the practice of Sahaja Yoga meditation. (Website)

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Many Americans use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in pursuit of health and well-being. The 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of CAM use by Americans, showed that approximately 38 percent of adults use CAM. (Website)

Meditation Research - According to meditation research the different types of meditation that people of all religious backgrounds regularly practice has always been a matter of great contemplation and deliberation as far as science goes. There have been countless meditation research studies done on the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating meditation into every day life, in instances such as workplace stress, anger management, peer relationships, and everything else. (Website)

Transcendental Meditation Research - More than 600 scientific studies verifying the wide-ranging benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique have been conducted at 250 independent universities and medical schools in 33 countries during the past 40 years. After two weeks of practice of the TM program, individuals showed significantly increased EEG coherence during the practice, in contrast to their own eyes-closed control condition before they learned the TM technique. (Website)

Life Beyond Death - Dr. Alexander, a renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent 54 years honing his scientific worldview. He thought he knew how the brain and mind worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain infection, changed all of that – completely! (Website)

Documentaries of the Near-Death Experience - NDE testimony offers answers to the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? What does it all mean? NDEs also provide circumstantial and scientific evidence supporting the afterlife theory for which scientific reductionism cannot adequately explain. (Website)

Journey Through the Light and Back - After suffering from a terminal illness, in 1982 Mellen-Thomas Benedict ‘died’ and for an hour and a half he was monitored showing no vital signs. Miraculously he returned to his body with a complete remission of the disease – and what may be the most inspirational near-death experience story known to date. (Website)

The Institute for Afterlife Research - This web site presents some of the overwhelming evidence for the survival of physical death. This evidence is based on the experiences of thousands (and in some cases, millions) of people from around the world. It is not based on any religious beliefs, dogmas or theories and we try to report the facts to the best of our own understanding and abilities. (Website)

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. (Read the Book)

The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) - As an educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) focuses most of its resources into providing the highest quality information available about NDE-related subjects. It is the only such membership group in the world. In addition to maintaining this information-rich website, IANDS publishes a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and a member newsletter, sponsors conferences and other programs, works with the media, and encourages the formation of regional discussion and support groups.  (Website)

A Room Nearby | An Incredible Journey into the Afterlife
During what should have been a routine Caesarean section surgical procedure to deliver her child, author Kathy Baker left her world as she knew it. Something went wrong with the anaesthesia, and very quickly she flatlined. For a full 8 minutes, Kathy was clinically dead before being brought back. With startling clarity, she recounts her death experience in detail; then the sensations and sights she witnessed as she left her physical body and entered an ethereal world… (Website)

Anita Moorjani - Doctors at the hospital had given Anita just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital that morning, unable to move as a result of the cancer that had ravaged her body for over three years. Anita shares her experience of entering another dimension and being given a choice of whether to return to life or not. She experienced great clarity and understanding of her life and purpose here on earth. She is the embodiment of the truth that we all have the inner power and wisdom to overcome even life’s most adverse situations, as she is the living proof of this possibility.   (Website)

Carol Bowman - Past Life Center - Have you lived before? Are you curious about past lives and reincarnation? Welcome to the Past Life Center, the most comprehensive reincarnation site on the Internet. Understanding the connection between past lives and present reality leads to profound personal benefits, both spiritual and practical. (Website)

The Reincarnation Experiment - I. To expand the use of a scientific perspective in the study of reincarnation cases. II. To develop objective and reliable techniques to evaluate empirical evidence. III. To motivate individuals to test the possibility of past-life influences in their own lives. IV. To share with the public both research techniques and results of investigations. (Website)

Research on Reincarnation - There has been an enormous amount of research done during recent times in the field of Past-Life-Regression. Modern Medical Science has documented it meticulously and the in-depth studies have shown that 90% of illnesses, diseases and ailments that we suffer from in our present lives - all have past life connections. (Website)

The Reincarnation Research of Ian Stevenson, MD at the University of Virginia - For forty years, Dr. Stevenson investigated children who remember past lives. He chose to only study children as he reasoned that children we unlikely to fabricate past life memories. In total, Dr. Stevenson studied almost 3000 children who claimed to have past life memories. (Website)

The Power of Now
Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. (Read)

Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?
The 108 stories in Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung? offer thoughtful commentary on everything from love and commitment to fear and pain. Drawing from his own life experience, author Ajahn Brahm uses over 30 years of spiritual growth as a monk to spin delightful tales that can be enjoyed in silence or read aloud to friends and family. (Read)

Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?) explores the provocative premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we are born for the purpose of spiritual growth. (Read)

Choiceless Awareness
A series of Study Books was produced in the 1990s for use as concentrated study material on a particular topic at the four-day dialogue weekends held in Ojai, California. (Read)

Why Walk When You Can Fly: Soar Beyond Your Fears and Love Yourself and Others Unconditionally
Imposing no belief system or dogma, the teachings of Why Walk When You Can Fly? are practical and easy to incorporate into daily life, yet they produce a profound inner transformation. (Read)

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Chopra's teachings are distilled into seven simple principles which can be applied to all elements of personal life to evoke success. The basic idea is that personal understanding and harmony promote fulfilling relationships and material abundance without extra effort. (Read)

The Law of Attraction
This book presents the powerful basics of the original Teachings of Abraham. Within these pages, you’ll learn how all things, wanted and unwanted, are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe, the Law of Attraction. (Read)

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. (Read)

Between Death & Life: Conversations with a Spirit
Dolores has accumulated information about the Death experience and what lies beyond through 16 years of hypnotic research and past-life therapy. While retrieving past-life experiences, hundreds of subjects reported the same memories when experiencing their death, the spirit realm, and their rebirth. (Read)

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Chopra's teachings are distilled into seven simple principles which can be applied to all elements of personal life to evoke success. The basic idea is that personal understanding and harmony promote fulfilling relationships and material abundance without extra effort. (Read)

Beyond the Bleep: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide to What the Bleep Do We Know!?
What the Bleep Do We Know!? is a wake-up call to the millions of people searching for a voice somewhere in this fragmented culture who have been awaiting a catalyst. (Read)

Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment
The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve seen—monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe—it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. (Read)