Word: sensationism
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When anyone cries "supernatural," neuroscientists have long rushed to find a natural cause. Now comes a study in Science that re-creates the sensation of being outside your body. Scientists in the U.K. and Switzerland had subjects wear virtual-reality goggles in which their own images appeared, then rubbed their...
You know your film festival is a hit when people nearly kill each other to get into the screening of a movie they couldn't be paid to see elsewhere. At last year's Toronto International Film Festival, that film was the British docudrama Death of a President, which imagined...
That is, of course, why out-of-body experiences have always been, well, out-of-body. People report such experiences after returning from the "brink of death," or being under the influence of mind-altering drugs - no doubt why the sensation has long been equated with spiritual awakening (and with...
Road warriors grown accustomed to regional jets on commuter hops flinch at the idea of a turboprop. Perhaps it's that sensation of being crammed into a flying matchbox while a man inside your head uses a jackhammer to tunnel his way out.
But for most people, Teresa's ranking among Catholic saints may be less important than a more general implication of Come Be My Light: that if she could carry on for a half-century without God in her head or heart, then perhaps people not quite as saintly can cope...