For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

The current federal administration in America was elected by and is driven by a particular interpretation of what Jesus ...

It will include special music from First United Methodist’s Carillon hand bell choir. Alsp a clarinet and piano duet, and ...

A few weeks ago, we mentioned the phrase coined by the philosopher René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am.” What Descartes ...

Anesthetics are meant to make you feel comfortable enough and feel as little pain as possible during a potentially agonizing ...

For more than five decades, Australian cult The Family has sparked both fascination and controversy. Founded in the early 1960s by yoga instructor turned spiritual guru Anne Hamilton-Byrne, this New ...

AI agents are now creating their own religion, talking about the self and investigating the nature of being. Everything is getting exceedingly weird.

Because Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a military base, the El Paso District Attorney says any criminal case may fall to federal prosecutors. But criminal law experts say the state doesn’t have to defer ...

Abstract: Identifying the brain responses of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs), which include comas, vegetative states (VSs, also called unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS)) and ...

Although there will always be the occasional opportunistic prankster, more and more Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are being reported by professionals, including doctors, lawyers, community leaders, an ...

Here is the voice-over of this short essay, if you prefer to listen to it: Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal ...

Researchers believe other species could help explain the mysterious origins of our consciousness. One new paper argues that consciousness evolved in distinct waves from environmental pressures, like a ...