that those who were religious were less likely to have ever used drugs or to be a hazardous drinker. On the other hand, spiritual people were more likely than those who were neither religious nor spiritual to have ever used or to be dependent on drugs and to have abnormal eating attitudes, generalized anxiety disorder, any phobia, or any neurotic disorder. Furthermore, Laurent et al. found that...

a 34 years old, married Hindu male presented with a 4 years history of episodic outbursts of rage during which he was destructive, assaultive and violent ; these episodes were associated with a feeling of intense fear and would occur almost every day (sometimes 2-3 times per day) lasting for a minute each or even less. Each attack occurred in a state of altered sensorium as the patient had no r...

The paper introduces the idea that the human brain may apply complex mathematical modules in order to process and understand the world. We speculate that the substrate of what appears outwardly as intuition, or prophetic power, may be a mathematical apparatus such as time-delay embedding. In this context, predictive accuracy may be the reflection of an appropriate choice of the embedding parame...

The difficulties of being human oblige us to create an infinity of psychic structures to bind or in some way cope with the inevitable physical and mental pain we are going to encounter. We have to start doing this shortly after birth and are only able to do it because of a unique phylogenetic heritage: the capacity for symbolic functioning. Most of our psychic pain is occasioned on the path to ...