--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard that story.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523> > -------------------------------------------- > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM > > Remember the talk of > "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the > Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi > mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? > > New research suggests that the brains of many people are > naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless > events and considering them omens. Unless their brains are > working more efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive > inhibition. > > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superst\ ition <http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-supers\ tition> >
