As recently featured on Fox News, Near Death Experiences have clearly entered the mainstream and reached the public awareness. One of the most fascinating examples of an NDE is that of New York resident Dr. Tony Cicoria. Cicoria is a practicing orthopedic surgeon, and is Chief of the Medical Staff and Chief of Orthopedics at Chenango Memorial Hospital. In 1994, when Tony Cicoria was 42 years old, he was struck by lightning near Albany while using a public telephone. He was about a foot away when a rogue bolt of lightning struck. He recalled seeing his own body on the ground surrounded by a bluish-white light.

A noted gastroenterologist and Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine specialist shares his journey from physician to meta-physician. ” My soul was speaking to me in terms that I finally understood. Healing became more than an occupation. It became an attitude, a perspective, an underlying paradigm for living.”

Wayne Dyer, the American self-help author and motivational speaker, just died at the age of 75. His first book, “Your Erroneous Zones,” is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold. Dyer, had successfully recovered from leukemia with the help of Brazilian healer, John of God, in 2009. He had just finished an Australian speaking tour and, according to his longtime assistant, died peacefully in his sleep.

From Public Radio International, www.pri.org : As images of devastation and tragedy in Nepal and neighboring countries rattled by Saturday’s earthquake pour across social media and TV, the natural question for many people is, “What can I do to help?” After disasters, the best way to help is generally to donate money to effective and efficient charities that have an established presence on the ground. Charity Navigator is one of the leading resources for evaluating the work of nonprofits, and the organization has posted a list of highly-ranked charities that have mounted relief operations in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude temblor that originated outside the capital, Kathmandu.

Visiting the Institute’s website, I am reminded again of what a remarkable resource the Institute of Noetic Sciences has become. They offer cutting edge research into healing, consciousness, and world transformation as well as books, teleseminars and education materials. In addition to a marvelous online store, there are lively discussion boards and community groups with which to participate.

David Eagleman is an American neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neuro-law. After a close brush with death as a child, Eagleman began to question his assumptions about time and the brain. His experience, of time slowing down during a life threatening accident, left him feeling like Alice falling down the rabbit hole and went on to inform his life’s work.

Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton, the author of Punk Science and The Genius Groove , has a lot of interesting theories about the universe: that black holes are the creative force behind galaxies, and that they exist in outer space and within our bodies as well. That “paranormal” events aren’t strange at all when you look at the cutting edge science that can explain them. Dr Laughton is the person presenting Hidden Science on David Icke’s People’s Voice Channel. She will be appearing on The People’s Voice (link below) at 2.15 GMT today. http://www.thepeoplesvoice.tv/ These are just a few of the ideas explored on her website, www.paradigmrevolution.com and on her blog.

Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolution biologist and futurist and the author of EarthDance, a wonderfully fascinating journey through the history of EarthLife (biological evolution) and then through the history of humanity to see how we humans have seen ourselves in relation to our living planet and what that means for us now. In her book Sahtouris asks, “Will we learn from Nature’s amazing four billion years of experience in creating healthy living systems to give ourselves the future of which we dream?”

It’s with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and sound editor, Carl Casella. Carl was a sound designer at Sound Designs in NYC, and had a brilliant award-winning career working on and off Broadway on productions such as A Night With Janis Joplin, Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Little Shop of Horrors, and others.