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In Defense of Intuition: Exploring the Physical Foundations of Spontaneous Apprehension

By Ervin Laszlo — 2009

The thesis advanced in this paper is that human experience encompasses not only elements registered by the exteroceptive and interoceptive senses, but also elements received intuitively, in a direct and spontaneous mode.

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Listen to Your Body—‘It Made All the Difference for Me’

I was told that I should receive an appointment in about six to eight weeks, but my gut was telling me that something wasn’t right, so I decided I wanted to get it investigated sooner than that.

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Put Your Intuition to Use

“People treat intuition like it’s a dirty word, but it’s actually one of the body’s survival mechanisms,” says Dr. Antoine Bechara.

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A Mother’s Intuition Gives Her Daughter a New Chance at Life

“Never stop asking. Stay on those doctors. If you feel something is wrong and your doctor isn’t doing something, go to someone else.”

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‘I Listened to My Intuition—and I Beat Lung Cancer Twice’

Mother-of-three Karen McDonnell believes that knowing her body and trusting her gut instinct is what gave her the chance to fight the deadly disease, writes Arlene Harris. She urges others to get any symptoms checked by their GP

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Intuition Never Lies

I now realize that a framed piece of paper saying that someone is a doctor will never trump a gut intuition.

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Evolution Is Our Fundamental Reality

We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators, we can begin to resolve some of the problems by better integrating theology and science.

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Hope in Evolutionary Time

A very good friend of mine periodically asks me: Why do you believe that we are evolving in a positive way? Why do you believe that our consciousness is developing toward greater complexity, inclusivity and unity?

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A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain

An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.

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Do Quantum Effects Play a Role in Consciousness?

The role of biophotons in the brain is a growing area of research in neurobiology – and where there are photons there might be quantum mechanics. Betony Adams and Francesco Petruccione explore this developing, and contentious, field of quantum biophysics.

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Religion in Human Evolution, Part 7: Moses and Monotheism

Moses should be seen not as a historical figure, but a charter for a new regime in which people live under God, not king.

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