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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>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2010/12/an-overview-of-the-book-the-future-of-the-brain-the-promise-and-perils-of-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-neuroscience-by-steven-rose/</link>
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		<title>600 dying to tell tales of passing over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read about New Zealand&#8217;s first major Near Death Experiences Study and how &#8220;the elements that are emerging cross cultural boundaries&#8221;. For instance, irrespective of the time elapsed since the experience took place, people&#8217;s memories remain very lucid. Academics Tassel and Murray will complete the study by mid-2012 and hope that their work will be of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2010/12/600-dying-to-tell-tales-of-passing-over/</link>
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		<title>What is neuroplasticity and what does it have to do with me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that&#160;researchers have demonstrated repeatedly how negative information has a greater impact on the brain than positive information? Learn how through&#160;humor-based therapies and&#160;by leveraging the brain&#8217;s&#160;ability to change its structure and functioning through experiences and the conscious use of directed thoughts (referred to as neuroplasticity), the impact of negative experiences can be decreased.Humor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2010/11/what-is-neuroplasticity-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-me/</link>
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		<title>Von Lommel talks out of body &#8211; Yale News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read about a recent presentation by Dr van Lommel on near death experiences (NDEs) and out of body experiences (OBEs).&#160; Although the incidence of NDEs in the population is important (9 million people in the USA alone, according to Dr Van Lommel), they belong to the realm of subjective experiences and thus cannot be studied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.horizonresearch.org/blog/2010/11/von-lommel-talks-out-of-body-yale-news/</link>
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