Neuroscience, Quantum Physics and
Ancestral Shamanic Energy Medicine

Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how...

Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories...

Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned...

In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first...

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose...

The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at...

Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today's businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex -- and...

Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more...

The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it's "a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic," as writer Jennifer...

We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world...

Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics...

The biggest questions concerning who we are, where we come from and where we are going have captivated scientists and mystics for...

Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully...