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		<title>Dr Peter Fenwick reviews Dr Eben Alexander&#8217;s &#8220;Proof of Heaven&#8221;</title>
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	At 4:40 in the morning, Dr E. Alexander, a highly respected Harvard trained neurosurgeon, is woken up by waves of pain shooting down his spine. Though dismissive at first, like so many doctors, after a couple of hours of extreme headaches and jolts of pain, never experienced before, Dr Alexander slips into coma, seizing uncontrollably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2013/05/dr-peter-fenwick-reviews-dr-eben-alexanders-proof-of-heaven/</link>
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		<title>Kirkus Review: Proof of Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bestseller by Eben Alexander, &#8220;Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon&#8217;s Near Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife,&#8221; is given an objective and informative look in the Kirkus Review:

A remarkable account of miraculous recovery from bacterial meningitis and a transformative “Near-Death Experience.”
On Nov. 10, 2008, at the age of 54, neurosurgeon Alexander awakened  with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2013/02/kirkus-review-proof-of-heaven/</link>
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		<title>A special series on consciousness from The Guardian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The series, &#8220;Consciousness: The hard problem,&#8221; does an excellent job of posing questions about consciousness related to science, philosophy, and more. Read more about the &#8220;Eight questions science must answer:&#8221;
1. What are the critical brain regions for consciousness?
2. What are the mechanisms of general anaesthesia?
3. What is the self?
4. What determines experiences of volition and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2012/03/a-special-series-on-consciousness-from-the-guardian/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s go viral with our video!</title>
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Thank you all for viewing our animated, short video on YouTube &#8220;What Happens When We Die.&#8221; We have gotten over 42,000 viewers. Let&#8217;s try for 40,000 more!
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		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/07/lets-go-viral-with-our-video/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming series of articles on the near death experience phenomenon or NDE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is our pleasure to inform you that, given Horizon Research Foundation’s interest to study the state of the human mind at the end of life, in the upcoming months our editorial board will publish a series of articles aimed at providing an overview of the NDE phenomenon such as its characteristics, its incidence, theories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/07/upcoming-series-of-articles-on-the-near-death-experience-phenomenon-or-nde/</link>
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		<title>The Pursuit of Immortality</title>
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This lecture was presented by the Nour Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences. The lecture: The Pursuit of Immortality: From the Ego to the Soul included the panelists:
 
John Haught, PhD, Georgetown University
Kenneth Miller, PhD, Brown University
Nancey Murphy, PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary
A segment of the six part series, this conversation was thoughtful and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/04/the-pursuit-of-immortality/</link>
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		<title>A three year old visits heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heaven Is For Real, is the story of Colton Burpo. When he was three years old he had a medical emergency and experienced what he is calling &#8220;heaven.&#8221; The New York Times review the book in their March 11, 2011 issue: &#8220;Celestial Sales For Boy&#8217;s Tale of Heaven.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/03/a-three-year-old-visits-heaven/</link>
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		<title>Exploring medically induced coma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting interview appeared in the New York Times, February 28, 2011 called: &#8220;Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep.&#8221; In the article, Dr. Emery Neal Brown, is a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The study of the brain and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/03/exploring-medically-induced-coma/</link>
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		<title>The mind : from a science of learning to read to a science of learning ethical behaviour. Can your thoughts really “recycle&#8221; and change your brain?</title>
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Although the debate regarding whether it is mind that activates the human brain or whether it is the brain that activates the mind has fascinated humankind for centuries, a new study published in the prestigious scientific journal Science seems to suggest that the mind and thoughts can indeed change the structure of the brain. So what they say is true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2011/03/the-mind-%c2%a0from-a-science-of-learning-to-read-to-a-science-of-learning-ethical-behaviour-can-your-thoughts-really-%e2%80%9crecycle-and-change-your-brain/</link>
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		<title>An overview of the book, The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience, by Steven Rose</title>
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Amongst those who think that the mind is not a non-physical, separate entity from the brain, there are still many who think the mind is more than just the brain. Dr Rose, a  neuroscientist from the UK, who wrote a thought provoking book by the title The Future of the [...]]]></description>
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