Documentary: ‘Supernature: Esalen And The Human Potential’
Feb 02
SUPERNATURE: ESALEN AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL is a documentary film about the influential Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and The Human Potential Movement it spawned. At a time of unprecedented political, social and ideological conflict, we believe the world would benefit from a broad, beautiful, and sophisticated exposure to the ideas and practices fostered by Esalen, particularly those that move us beyond the present schizophrenic split between religion and science...
A Conversation With Akiane Kramarik
Jan 31
Akiane Kramarik is a child prodigy who paints and writes poetry. Featured on television programs such as "Oprah", Kramarik (born July 9, 1994) has gained worldwide attention. According to Kramarik, her art is inspired by her visions of heaven, and her personal connection with the God. Kramarik's art depicts life, landscape, and people...
New Resource Page: Extraordinary Human Capabilities
Jan 30
Pulse on Extraordinary Human Capabilities...
Carly Fleischmann: Autistic Girl Who Used A Computer To Ask For Help (Updated)
Jan 14
Carly was a severely autistic little girl unable to speak a word or connect to the world around her in any way. Or so everyone thought. That is until she turned 11 and something truly remarkable happened -- she typed her first words: ''h-u-r-t'' then ''h-e-l-p.''
New Scientific Study Indicates Shroud Of Turin Is Authentic
Dec 30
Italian scientists have conducted a series of advanced experiments which, they claim, show that one of Christianity's most prized but mysterious relics -- the Turin Shroud -- is not a medieval forgery but could be the authentic burial robe of Christ...
Unsolved Mysteries: Ice Woman
Dec 23
A woman freezes and is not only brought back to life, but fully recovers...
Bob Olson Interviews Anita Moorjani (& Related News)
Dec 12
Bob Olson of AfterLifeTV just posted a new interview Anita Moorjani. The hour-and-a-half long discussion includes Anita describing, in detail, her struggle with cancer -- which ended with the death of her body. While her broken, wasted-away body lay dead, Anita had a near-death experience that helped her understand how and why she contracted cancer, as well as many of the forces of life that shape our waking realities. When she returned to her body, Anita's doctors were astonished at the miraculous healing that took place. After struggling with cancer for four agonizing years, and then slipping into a comma and dying from it, all traces of cancer vanished. Anita's story is one of the most comprehensively documented medical miracles involving a near-death experience that I am aware of...
Jorian Ponomareff: Motorcycle Wizard
Nov 20
Jorian Ponomareff: Motorcycle Wizard...
100-Year-Old Man Completes Marathon
Oct 17
Fauja Singh completed the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in approximately eight hours, making him the oldest person ever to finish one of the 26.2-mile races. It was the eighth marathon for Singh, who was born India in 1911 and did not start running marathons until he was 89, after he moved to England following the death of his wife and son. He says not smoking or drinking alcohol throughout his life, combined with a vegetarian diet and up to 10 miles of walking or running per day are the secrets to his health...
Derren Brown Documentary: ‘Miracles For Sale’
Oct 12
Derren Brown teaches an ordinary British citizen how to adopt the guise of a pastor and miracle worker. After six months of learning the trade, "Pastor James Collins" sets sail for America. With a camera crew documenting all aspects of the adventure, Paster James performs faith healing miracles live in Texas...
Quote: Albert Einstein
Oct 02
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -- Albert Einstein
First Irish Case Of Death By Spontaneous Human Combustion
Sep 23
A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled. It is believed to be the first case of its kind in Ireland...
Impressionist Jim Meskimen Does Shakespeare In Celebrity Voices
Sep 04
Jim Meskimen performs Clarence's speech from William Shakespeare's Richard III as a number of different celebrities, from George Clooney to Droopy Dog...
Woman Sleeps For MONTHS At A Time
Aug 16
21 year-old Lily Clarke sleeps for two months because she suffers from a very rare disorder, Kleine-Levin Syndrome, known colloquially as Sleeping Beauty Disease...
TED: David Blaine: How I Held My Breath For 17 Min
Aug 15
In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him...
Video: Amazing Display Of Youthful Agility
Aug 12
Watch this amazing display of youthful agility and strength in the art called "Parkour," which involves transforming any urban setting into a playground of possibilities for leaping, scaling, climbing and soaring across rooftops...
John Cleese: The Scientists
Jul 22
John Cleese: The Scientists (from 2008)...
Girl Loses Half Her Brain In Car Crash & Gains An Amazing New Artistic Ability
Jul 22
A girl left with half-a-brain after a horrific car crash has emerged from a coma with a new artistic ability....
Wind Tunnel Skydivers
Jun 19
A quartet of professional skydivers spin, twirl, and flip around each other at the Skydive Arena in Prague, putting on a jaw dropping show that makes the idea of having your feet on the ground seem totally boring...
Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds
Jun 08
In a new study of crowd wisdom -- the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers -- researchers told test participants about their peers’ guesses. The result? When people can learn what others think, the wisdom of crowds may veer towards ignorance...
Janice Tunnicliffe: A Woman Who Is Allergic To Electricity
May 18
A British woman cannot use an electric kettle, keeps her washing machine in a concrete outhouse and cannot have neighbours with wireless internet because she is allergic to electricity. Janice Tunnicliffe spends every night playing Scrabble by candlelight with her husband because she claims to have a rare condition called electrosensitivity...
Heather Dorniden: The Runner Who Didn’t Give Up
May 13
Heather Dorniden of the University of Minnesota races the 600m at the Big 10 Indoor Track Championships. She falls, she gets up, she miraculously wins...
Woman Wakes Up After Surgery Speaking With British Accent
May 06
When Karen Butler came out of sedation after oral surgery a year and a half ago, her mouth throbbed and her face was puffy. But that's not all that had changed. When she spoke, the words tumbled out in a thick and foreign accent. Over the next few days, the swelling subsided and the pain vanished, but Butler's newly acquired accent did not. Though it has softened over time, she's never again spoken like a native Oregonian from Madras. To most people, she sounds British...
Autistic Boy, 12, Develops Theory Of Relativity
Mar 27
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 -- higher than Albert Einstein -- and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role. The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours. And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet -- his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity'...
‘Wolf Child’ Named World’s Hairiest Girl
Feb 28
Supatra is one of just 50 known sufferers of Ambras Syndrome -- caused by a faulty chromosome -- to be documented since the Middle Ages. Before the disease was understood, sufferers were branded 'werewolves.' She has thick hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back. Even laser treatment has failed to stop the hair growth. The Guinness World Record has officially recognised her as the world's hairiest girl...
Thinking Cap Increases Creativity
Feb 10
Scientists have created a real-life thinking cap which works by zapping electricity through the brain. The weird-looking headwear has had extraordinary results and experts believe it could help people be more creative. The device was dreamt up by the University of Sydney's Centre for the Mind in Australia and suppresses the left side of the brain to encourage the more creative right side into action...
Temple Grandin, Claire Danes & HBO’s Movie
Jan 06
This post includes lots of information about Temple Grandin and the 2010 HBO movie that starred Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, a woman with autism who revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. The film debuted on HBO on February 6, 2010 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Temple Grandin was nominated for fifteen Emmy Awards and won seven, including the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie...
Bluejay: Getting To Know The Mind Of A Child Prodigy
Dec 28
Jay Greenberg signed his compositions "Bluejay" because that particular bird was small and made a lot of noise -- just like him. Jay told me that music came to him, fully composed all the time. He couldn't turn it off. His professors told me they had never seen anything like it before, and in terms of historical context, nothing like his talent had been seen or heard since the likes of Mozart, Mendelssohn or Saint-Saens...
60 Minutes: The Gift of Endless Memory
Dec 28
It is often said that we are our memories -- that web of experiences, relationships, thoughts, and feelings that make us who we are. We don't remember it all of course. That would be impossible. Or would it? There has been a discovery in the field of memory recently, so new you won't find it in any textbook. It's so hard to fathom, there are some who remain unconvinced. For the moment, the scientists studying it are simply calling it "superior autobiographical memory." And unless you happen to know one of the handful of people discovered so far who have it, get ready to be amazed...
An Interview With Taoist Wizard Peter Ragnar (from 2005)
Nov 18
A fascinating interview from 2005: Andrew Cohen interviews Peter Ragnar, a modern-day shaman, Taoist wizard, natural life scientist, and self-master par excellence. He lives in the Tennessee mountains with his wife, and he claims to be a “senior citizen” but refuses to give away his age because he “doesn't believe in it.” He does strenuous two-hour strength-training workouts seven days a week and performs record-breaking feats. He's been a martial arts practitioner for over fifty years, and he has developed his own version of Taoist energy practice called “Magnetic Qi Gong,” which he claims is the key to immortality. He has healing powers and is renowned for his clairvoyant and telepathic abilities. He lives on a strict diet of raw foods and juices and has spent a lifetime studying the relationship between the body and the mind at all levels. And his most remarkable attainment is his profound awakening to the energetic dimension, or “bio-electric-magnetic” field, of life. While this dimension of reality and experience is one that many have heard of, it's a world that Peter actually lives in. All this being said, Peter's most compelling and inspiring message is his steadfast and passionate call to self-mastery based upon the relentless cultivation of intention...
Scientists Discover Evidence For Psychic Phenomena (Updated)
Nov 12
Dr. Bem, a social psychologist at Cornell University, conducted a series of studies that will soon be published in one of the most prestigious psychology journals (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). Across nine experiments, Bem examined the idea that our brain has the ability to not only reflect on past experiences, but also anticipate future experiences. This ability for the brain to "see into the future" is often referred to as psi phenomena... Bem's studies are unique in that they represent standard scientific methods and rely on well-established principles in psychology. Essentially, he took effects that are considered valid and reliable in psychology -- studying improves memory, priming facilitates response times -- and simply reversed their chronological order...
1972 Best Documentary: Marjoe (Watch It Here)
Nov 01
This post includes the 1972 Oscar winning film, Marjoe. Marjoe Gortner was the first Evangelical preacher to blow the whistle on his profession. In this award-winning documentary Marjoe reveals age-old tricks of the trade and exposed some of the entertainment aspects of the popular movement that have made it big business... From the beginning, his preaching skills were meticulously cultivated. Before he learned to say "Mamma" or "Poppa," he was taught to sing "Hallelujah!" When he was nine months old his mother taught him the right way to shout "Glory!" into the microphone. At three, he could preach the gospel from memory, and he received drama coaching and instruction in every performing art from saxophone playing to baton twirling. On Halloween, 1948, at the age of four, Marjoe was officially ordained and thrust into a wildly successful career as the Shirley Temple of America's Bible Belt, the sprawling non-geographic community of strict adherents to the Christian scriptures. In the following decade he preached to packed tents and houses coast to coast, as enthusiastic audiences flocked to see the Miracle Child who allegedly received sermons from the Lord in his sleep...
Videos: The Real Superhumans
Oct 24
The Real Superhumans reveals the amazing stories of people with extraordinary super powers... 'Iceman' can run on snow in freezing conditions for hours without getting frostbite, hypothermia or even feeling any pain. 'The Blind Painter' is a gifted artist despite being born without eyes, and 'The Human Calculator' can process information at the speed of lightning just using his own brain...
Video: Indian Man Immune To Electrocution
Oct 24
Rajmohan Nair, an Indian man who is literally immune to electrocution. Dubbed the ‘Electro Man’ on the History Channel’s premier reality series, “Stan Lee’s Superhumans,” Rajmohan has the superhuman ability to conduct large currents of electricity without suffering any bodily harm whatsoever...
Inspiring: Seeing With The Eyes Of God
Sep 07
My good friend, Robert Perry, has written an article that shines a bright light on an aspect of reality that few of us experience. He begins his piece referring to a near-death experience that Beverly Brodsky had and then shares several other experiences that reinforce the radical notion that we are immersed in a reality that is completely different from the mundane, day-to-day, isolated, disconnected, often painful and oppressive reality our Earth-bound senses usually perceive...
News: Madness In The Fast Lane
Sep 06In 2008, BBC cameras filmed two Swedish sisters throwing themselves into traffic on the M6. When it was shown on BBC One, nearly 7 million viewers were glued to their screens, and millions more watched it later on YouTube. The footage was shocking. One previewer wrote “On no account miss this documentary. It opens with what is perhaps the most extraordinary footage I’ve seen on TV”...
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