Mind and Research
What scientists have actually found about consciousness, near-death experiences and reincarnation claims, including where the evidence runs out.
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Franz Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: From Paris to Hypnosis
Franz Anton Mesmer's animal magnetism, the 1784 royal commission with Franklin and Lavoisier, and how Puységur and Braid turned it into hypnosis and mental healing.
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The Placebo Effect: What It Shows About Mind Over Body, and What It Does Not
What the placebo effect really shows: Beecher's 1955 claim, open-label placebos, nocebo, the Cochrane reviews, and why expectation eases pain but not disease.
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William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Psychologist Studies the Sacred
How William James studied religious experience in his Gifford Lectures: healthy minds and sick souls, the four marks of mysticism, mind-cure and psychical research.
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Reincarnation Research: The Ian Stevenson Case Studies and Their Critics
A fair look at Ian Stevenson's reincarnation case studies at the University of Virginia, what his method was, and the strongest criticisms of his work.
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Near-Death Experiences: What Researchers Have Actually Found
What near-death research has found: Raymond Moody's early work, the Greyson scale, hospital studies of cardiac arrest, and what remains open.
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Consciousness and the Brain: What We Know and What We Don't
A plain look at consciousness and the brain: what neuroscience has firmly established, what the hard problem is, and where the big theories still disagree.
