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Meditation
What is there to hate about meditation? If you’re Adam Grant, quite a lot, and he let’s loose in an op-ed at the New York Times: I am being stalked by meditation evangelists….
Get a fresh perspective on the evolution and understanding of consciousness. Dive deep into the multi-layered teachings from across the world about who and what we are, as consciousness. Learn about the…
Via The Midwest Real Podcast Unus mundus, Latin for “one world,” is the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. Dip your toe into the well…
From episode #54 of the Project Bring Me to Life Podcast: In this episode of the #PBM2LPodcast we host a panel discussion on holistic health. We cover many forms of alternative healing…
“Just feel the fucking nonsense float away.”
From the Project Bring Me to Life podcast: In Episode 52 Selomon and Shantastic Shine speak with meditation music producer Ashton Robertson about music and vibrations such as the Solfeggio Frequencies that…
Look at the cosmos as a pool where the greatest depths are the most inclusive. Look at the cosmos as expanded dimensions of consciousness and existence. As we move closer to the surface,…
There must be money in meditation: its going corporate. Oliver Burkeman explains at the Guardian: As a fairly regular meditator, I naturally responded with only a slight smile and a deep sense…
Via Midwest Real “Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived” – Osho ITUNES STITCHER DOWNLOAD What a mind-blasting reminder that is, “life is not a…
Apparently there’s a boom in the number of people who meditate, at least in California as reported by the Los Angeles Times: Meditation, primarily a 2,500-year-old form called mindfulness meditation that emphasizes…
Jeffrey B. Rubin at Truthout writes: In case we had any doubt after watching Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes,” mindfulness is the new yoga – and we are in the midst of…
A study finds meditating cancer patients are able to affect the makeup of their DNA, reports Scientific American: “I think, therefore I am” is perhaps the most familiar one-liner in western philosophy….
Via Midwest Real “The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings… We are nothing but melodies, we are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.” –Michio Kaku ITUNES …
I could have a job, but am too lazy to choose it; I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it. My house leaks; I am too lazy to mend…
The Daily Beast just ran an awesome interview with David Lynch. I’ve pulled some snippets here, but you should read the whole thing if you’re a Lynch fan! via The Daily Beast:…
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m often uptight and easily stressed. I don’t meditate regularly, but when I do the relief I feel is often surprising. Just taking a few…
How to visit Ancient Sites – Mindfulness & Meditation This is the first in a series of short articles highlighting the approach I use when visiting ancient sites. I regularly organize and…
Via ScienceDaily: Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Naval Health Research Center have found that mindfulness training — a combination of meditation and body awareness exercises…
Via Nautilus, Rose Eveleth on meditation as an ancient method of harnessing one’s senses to open new doors of perception: After five years of practicing meditation, subject number 99003 began to see…
Jeff Warren explores the promises and pitfalls of vipassana and other mindfulness meditation on Psychology Tomorrow Magazine: Practicing vipassana, you have more space to make appropriate responses, and more space, too, around…
Via ScienceDaily, how changing your mind changes your body: A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a…
Via Salon, Suzanne Clores reminisces: In a Greek Orthodox Church annex in suburban New Jersey, I’m about to start my first morning of a four-week mind control summer camp. It is 1980….
A classic Ken Wilber essay, covering what the great traditions have said about the process of death and reincarnation. This information page gives an overview of Kenneth Smith, links to many resources,…
This week on Mindful Cyborgs Chris Dancy and I discussed the relationship between mindfulness and quantified self with biosensor engineer Nancy Dougherty. Nancy talks about how she came to the practice of…