Neuroscientists are learning new tricks from professional magicians, as they struggle to understand how the brain works. Magicians take advantage of how our nervous systems, including our eyes and sense of touch, are wired to perceive "impossible" illusions (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). In Live Science.com, Wynne Parry quotes researcher Susana Martinez-Conde as saying, "Scientists have only studied cognitive illusions for a few decades. Magicians have studied them for hundreds, if not thousands, of years."
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Every day our brains are flooded by stimulation–sounds, sights and smells. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). At the same time, we are constantly engaged in an inner dialogue, ruminating about the past, musing about the future. Somehow the brain filters all this input instantly, selecting some things for long- or short-term storage, discarding others and focusing in on what’s most important at any given instant. Amazingly enough, humans regulate the activity of INDIVIDUAL NEURONS to intentionally alter the outcome of all this stimulation.
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Alberto VilloldoWe cannot become enlightened if we don’t have the brain to sustain it. Alberto Villoldo explains how to revise your nutrition to enable your brain to sustain enlightenment, and then how to use the energies all around us to return to the ancient human journey toward the new human. How do you grow a second body?

How do you become a new human? Find out this week on Revelations!

Alberto Villoldo’s website is: www.thefourwinds.com

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Mind reading: ETs can do it and it turns out humans can too. Scientists have found that some couples are so in tune that their brains begin to work in sync. Perhaps we will communicate by simply reading each other’s minds in the future.

Researchers have discovered identical patterns of brain activity in volunteers who became so close they were “physiologically aligned.” This has long been observed in young women who live together, in apartments and dorms: Soon they all have their menstrual periods at the same time. And psychologists have long known that some couples seem to “know” what their partner is thinking or about to say.
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