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

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’. […]

Colouring in combats anxiety

Recent research from a team led by Jayde Flett at Otago University in New Zealand suggests that an enjoyable and inexpensive way of practising mindfulness and combatting anxiety and depression [...]

Prevalence of near-death experiences

As a nurse working in intensive care, Penny Sartori encountered many people who had died and had subsequently been resuscitated – some of whom talked to her about their experiences [...]

Mental ‘warm-ups’ improve creativity

Research by Wilma Koutstaal at the University of Minnesota suggests that people in creative occupations benefit from mental ‘warm-up’ activities just as much as athletes do from a physical warm-up. [...]

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