Latest Transcendence Stories

NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a breakthrough moment for independent artists, "Transcendence" singer-songwriter Ed Hale achieves his first Billboard Top 40 hit with last week's Hot Shot Debut, "Scene in San Francisco," which is currently #25 and rising on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song is from his latest solo album, Ballad On Third Avenue (Dying Van Gogh Records). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120306/NY65116 ) Fifteen years and nine albums in as a...

MADRID, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- My Essential Books is announcing the launch in digital format (pdf) of a novel we're sure will quickly become one of the most widely read works in recent times. Published in English and Spanish, the novel, The Audience Forced by A. Lovaz is a mixture of fiction and reality, novels and essays, and presents a perfect balance between corruption and the dignity of a man obsessed with transcendence and the religious mysteries, without forgetting the...

A U.S. researcher suggests people, despite cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences. Brick Johnstone, a neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri, said that transcendence -- feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self -- is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved. The brain functions in a certain way during...