The Whole is the Illusion

What you see about you is not real. You are an illusion, imagined by all those who are creating you in their experience. Nothing is the only things that really exists.

Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect

If you are a fan of CSI, be it the Gil Grissom original or the various spin-off shows, it's probably better if you don't get called up for jury service as there is a very good chance that you have become a victim of the dreaded 'CSI effect.' This article addresses what the CSI effect is and its impact within the court room.

President Abraham Lincoln's Prophetic Dream That Foretold His Own Death In The White House

President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death not long before he was going to be assassinated. He reported to a friend that the dream had troubled him for days and he could not shake the melancholy it induced. It is as if he were allowed to grieve his own tragic demise in advance.

Dream Shows Deceased Mother Still Attached to Her Daughter

Intensive dream work, which reveals the interior workings of the psyche, is guaranteed to change your view of reality. One of the stranger cases I encountered in decades of professional work echoed a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer which told of the Yiddish concept of the dibbuk. One definition of a dibbuk is a soul who, at death, attaches to another person as a living host rather than leave this plane of existence.

Just Doing My Job

The makers and lovers of lies are sometimes the exact same people. At other times, co-dependents.

What is The Collective Unconscious?

An overview of Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious and Archetypes

Stanley Milgram

Would you kill a person if somebody asks you? If asked this questions, you, most probably would give the definite answer “No” and will be sure in its truthfulness. Killing people in Nazi camps, tortures and during the war seems so distanced evil created by brutal and heartless people.

Knowledge Of Behavior

Interpersonal expectancy effects research focuses on how one individual's expectations influence another individual's behavior.

Psychology And Its Techniques

Psychology is one of the most ancient sciences which studies numerous aspects of human nature. However it still has open questions and a space for new learning.

Dream Groups by Telephone May Be Better Than Meeting In Person

We human beings are visually dominant creatures. We draw many conclusions based on visual cues alone. Our eyes tell a very different story about the world around us than the story that is told by our ears. A telephone group tends to be more focused on the specific content of the dreams and on the emotional tone of the members, and seems to be less biased and more growth-focused than when people are in the same room.

Freud Thought The Irish Were Too Difficult To Figure Out

It is amazing how we hold certain folks in history out in such high-esteem. Did you know that Freud may not have been the super psychologist we believe he was? In fact did you realize that he openly admitted that he figured out all about the human mind and psychology of people except he could not explain the Irish and their personality traits.

An Interview with the Founder of The Human Knowledge MindMap

The Online Think Tank often gets to discuss important topics with everyone from the Father of the Internet to the Founder of the Human Knowledge MindMap. Indeed, gaining insight into our world and the future helps us better understand the needs of human societies and civilization in everything from the inner workings of the greatest communication device created in the history of mankind to the future of the human mind which operates it.

How Do You Decide What to Commit to Memory?

Have you ever considered what you decide to commit to memory; how about what you do not? Recently this subject got a bit of buzz in our Online Think Tank when discussing Mind Mapping and critical thinking processes, methods and philosophy. Everyone has formatted their brain to work a certain way so the question is; How Do You Decide What to Commit to Memory?

Sound and Fury and The Mathematical Theory of Energy Determinants

For those who study efficiency modeling in manufacturing, computer processes, military logistic strategies or sports we know that energy should be treated as a precious commodity, no matter how much you have. Now then, if wasting energy is bad then why do so many people participate in the sound and fury of mankind?

Some Facts about Autism

Autism is one of the mental and behavioral disorders classified under the Pervasive Developmental Disorders or PDD. This is a group of disorders characterized by severe and pervasive abnormalities in social-interaction skills, presence of stereotyped behavior, interest, activities or lack of imaginative play.