The following were discussed in Ferguson’s book:

• Brain Research
  A pioneer researcher, Barbara Brown, remarked that the results in biofeedback training reflect the minds ability to alter every physiological system, ever cell in the body. Laboratory studies of meditation and other altered states showed distinctive physiolgical changes in EEG, respiration, and GSR. Split brain research showed that human beings have two minds. In the mid 70s, breakthroughs in brain chemistry occured. This included the discovery of a class of peptides including the endorphins, or enkephalins. Mental states such as well being depend on these substances. Experiments have also implicated endorphins in the placebo effect.

• Holistic systems
  Theory has shown that wholes cannot be understood by analysis.

• Revised conceptions of evolution.
  Darwinian evolution was a slow steady climb, and was based on "survival of the fitest". The new conception is that evolution may occure in periodic leaps in small groups. Research has shown that genes and DNA are not static, but dynamic systems in which genes and segments of DNA may expand and contract; and roving elements hop in and out. There are also many "all or nothing" evolved characteristics that could not have ocured by random selection and survival of the fittest

• Syntropy
  A term invented by biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Syntropy is the opposit of entropy. This corresponds to the Theory of dissapative structures (open systems) by Ilya Prigogine. Form or structure is maintained or becomes more complex due to a continuous input of energy. This theory can be applied to living systems, mechanical systems, psychology, learning, health, sociology, politics, and economics.

• Modern (Quantum) Physics
  Particle physics offers a flickering web of events, relationships, and probabilities. Waves may become particles when they are observed, and so the observer becomes part of the event. Thoughtful scientists, such as Fritjov Copra, have been struck by the curious parallels between the findings of quantum physics and ancient mystical descriptions of reality. Others have pointed out that these are only parallels.

  Bells Theorem
  The EPR thought experiment was devised by Einstein Podolsky and Rosen to discredit the new quantum physics. This thought experiment said that if quantum theory were correct, a change in spin of one particle in a two particle system would effect its twin simultaneously, instantaneoulsy, even if the two had been widely separated in space. A mathamatical proof of this was produced by JS Bell in 1964, and experimentally confirmed in 1972. This effect is probably not the result of a transfer of information, but rathr a consequence of the one-ness of apparently separate objects. According to Gary Zukav, "Bell's theorem not only suggests that the world is quite differnt than it seems, it damands it". But others would argue that macroscopic reality may be quite different from subatomic reality.

• The Holographic Brain and Universe
  Karl Pribram, who helped write up Karl Lashley's research on memory, had been drawn into brain research by the question of how we remember. An article in Scientific American on the construction of a hologram led Pribram to see the hologram as a model for how the brain might store memory. It was subsequently detemined that the brain does complex calculations on the frequency data it receives, to provide our picture of reality. Pribram discovered that physiscist David Bohm proposed a holographic universe. The explicate order is the solid world we know; the image of a solid apple; which arises from the emplicate order; the hidden ground of being, which is the blured frequency interference information on the photographic plate. Many have speculated that this ground of being, which is beyond time, may be directly perceived by mystics. The holographic principle does infact account for many anomalous phenomena.