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I generally avoid theories that lack support from peer-reviewed research, but occasionally, research emerges that is just too interesting not to mention. The section on dreaming in MAAC is among the most popular topics readers report regarding their experience with the book, and this research suggests a much more extraordinary concept. I'll sometimes challenge participants in workshops and classes to explain how we can be sure that dreams aren't reality and that our shared wo

In chapter two we introduced takete and uloomu from John Booth Davies' 1978 landmark book, The Psychology of Music , and the phenomenon in which people across cultures will identify an image with sharp angular lines as takete, and one with curvy lines as uloomu. Fast forward to the present and the currently favored words for the same phenomenon are kik and bouba! It turns out that the origin of taketa goes back to 1947 and Wolfgang Kölher who initially associated the phenomen

Researchers used to think that Neanderthals and Homo sapien sapiens were pretty much separated from each other. But more and more research points to a significant amount of inter relationships, and that Neanderthals were much more tha n "knuckle-dragging brutes that were too dimwitted for moral or religious concepts, probably lacking language and behaviorally less advanced than modern humans." A New York Times summary published in January of 2026, continues to provide eviden

Throughout Music As a Chariot we have introduced subjects that all have one thread in common: they relate to humans incredible ability to use music to instill emotional responses in other humans. We have tried to err on the side of published research that supports conclusions reported, while noting that there is still much to learn, and many theories are controversial. Now comes a new and controversial theory by University of Nevada, Las Vegas professor of physics, Michael Pr