I thought this was an interesting little article. I have a great deal of hope and anticipation about what this kind of brain imaging can tell us about brain and mind.
Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works
“If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works.
Brain scans [...]
An interesting short article – interesting to me mostly because it is a conversion and disillusionment story, and I think conversion and disillusionment are extremely important and understudied topics in the field of self-development.
Does it say anything new about Ken Wilber? No, I don’t think so, it merely expresses a common arc in the various [...]
I have a long standing iunterest in the self-help movement and it’s materials, ideas, and authors. In the self-help philosophies we can see how the occult and esoteric ideas of earlier centuries have evolved to become a new toolset. It’s a curious toolset, a strange mix of the useful and practical and the patently ridiculous [...]
