On the mind blog

On the mind blog2018-08-21T13:41:58+00:00

A blog about creativity and parapsychology… including latest academic research and survey results on women writers’ creative processes, plus individual paranormal experiences.

This is where I don my psychologist’s hat and talk about creativity – what it is, how it works, ways of helping it along. And about parapsychology, that fascinating scientific backwater that explores phenomena, such as precognition and reincarnation, that are not currently explicable via standard models of perception.

Photo credit: Flickr/Alev Adil

Bolshy women are more creative

A team of psychologists in Poland has been looking at what personality traits are associated with creativity in men and women. The results of several large-scale investigations reported in the [...]

Identifying ‘locked-in’ syndrome

A new book claims that so-called ‘locked-in syndrome’ – in which someone in an apparently comatose or vegetative state is actually aware of what is going on around them – [...]

Books about reincarnation

Below is a list of my main sources for Herring Girl – if you read them too, you’ll understand why I was forced to ‘suspend my disbelief’. […]

Atheists have fewer paranormal experiences

When the 2,524 people who took part in my survey of paranormal experiences were questioned about their belief in a deity associated with an organised religion, the fell into three [...]

1. Create a writing realm

When my daughter is playing intensely, she always closes the door to her bedroom. It’s a way of ensuring no one breaks the spell of her imagination. Studies of successful [...]

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