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REVIEWS REVIEWS areas involved in colour are next to, if not continuous with, the areas devoted to form and texture. She has also benefited from her association with Tibet House, where Director of East-West Research Dr William C. Bushell, the author of the book's foreword, compares synaesthesia with the Buddhist "mind sense". Others, like "Piano Man" Billy Joel, appreciate their gift but don't want to demystify it lest the mystery disappear. Seaberg wonders whether synaesthesia may be "a perfect looking-glass into the quantum realm". All this and more, no doubt. vision sensory input". A search into metaphysical realms and the latest in quantum physics and consciousness research reveals other possibilities including interaction with parallel dimensions and the zero-point field. The authors investigate laboratory research into triggering the brain, and the use of hypnosis to re-create that "been there, done that" feeling. However, there are spin-offs in the journey that take in an exploration of memory and time perception. So their gamut also includes lucid dreaming, time slips and mind trips, hallucinations and religious visions, multiple personality disorders, the intuitive mind, voodoo curses, the power of suggestion, demonic possession and more! The inner universe is full of anomalies. TASTING THE UNIVERSE areas involved in colour are next to, if vision sensory input". A search into by Maureen Seaberg not continuous with, the areas metaphysical realms and the latest in New Page Books, NJ, USA, 20II devoted to form and texture. She has quantum physics and consciousness ISBN 978-1-60163-159-6 (286pp tpb) also benefited from her association research reveals other possibilities Available: www.NewPageBooks.com with Tibet House, where Director of including interaction with parallel ince the rise of the Internet, East-West Research Dr William C. dimensions and the zero-point field. Sines hesia—the phenomenon Bushell, the author of the book's The authors investigate laboratory of blending of the senses—has foreword, compares synaesthesia research into triggering the brain, become better known and thousands With the Buddhist "mind sense’. and the use of hypnosis to re-create of synaesthetes are fearlessly sharing Others, like "Piano Man" Billy Joel, that "been there, done that" feeling. their stories. In her marvellous book —@PPreciate their gift but don't want to However, there are spin-offs in the encapsulating anecdotal evidence, demystify it lest the mystery journey that take in an exploration of scientific findings and consciousness disappear. Seaberg wonders whether Memory and time perception. So research, New York journalist synaesthesia may be "a perfect their gamut also includes lucid _ Maureen Seaberg, herself a looking-glass into the quantum dreaming, time slips and mind trips, synaesthete, explores the world of realm". All this and more, no doubt. hallucinations and religious visions, synaesthesia where musical notes multiple personality disorders, the and letters of the alphabet can be THE DEJA VU ENIGMA intuitive mind, voodoo curses, the perceived as colours and even by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman = POWET of suggestion, demonic shapes, forms, textures and tastes. New Page Books, NJ, USA, 2010 Possession and more! The inner One of Seaberg’s interviewees, the ISBN 978-I-60163-104-6 (245pp tpb) universe is full of anomalies. violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, admits Available: www.NewPageBooks.com hat music as he perceives it contains Tr phenomenon of déja vu—the all these attributes. Another, Sir sense of "remembering" an Robert Cailliau, PhD, a co-inventor of | experience or situation that has never he World Wide Web, chose the "w" occurred—knows no boundaries to etter because he sees it as green, his do with age, race, culture or religion. avourite colour, but he regards the As Marie Jones and Larry Flaxman, phenomenon as a glitch in the co-authors of several books and brain's hard-wiring. Yet it's also a founders of ParaExplorers.com very emotional phenomenon. discover, there are various scientific In her extensive research, Seaberg explanations for this common yet earned that synaesthesia is as much — spooky experience, from short-term as eight times more common in memory short-circuits to neuro- creative people, and that the brain physiological disorders and "pre- Cutting-Edge in Prostate Cancer Diagnostics NUTRITION & Nutritional Medicine BE YOND PCA3, world’s first commercially available totally non-invasive genetics test for Prostate Cancer (PCa). 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