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Charles Tart & Shinzen Young: Progress in Meditation?
Earlier this week one of my former professors, Charles Tart (affectionately known as Charley), shared a fascinating exchange on his blog between himself and meditation teacher Shinzen Young. Charley presented Shinzen with an issue that’s coming up in his meditation … Continue reading
Sam Harris: The New Science of Morality
Sam Harris seems to be turning his attention from tearing apart religious dogma to creating a new philosophical foundation for the study of human flourishing. He has a new book coming out in October called The Moral Landscape, and recently … Continue reading
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Erich Fromm interviewed by Mike Wallace, 1958
The Society for Humanistic Psychology blog posted the following video of Erich Fromm being interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1958. [A complete transcript of the interview can be accessed via the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) website.] … Continue reading
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Mindfulness training in elementary schools
Elisha Goldstein posted the following video on his Mindfulness and Psychotherapy blog. It’s very heartening for me to see this type of mindfulness training being offered to children at such a young age. Mindful Schools, a community outreach program of … Continue reading
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Understanding addiction
It seems reasonable to assume that if you want to know about a given topic, a good place to start is by checking out what the leading experts in the field have to say about it. For instance, if you … Continue reading
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Orgasm Inc.
It’s starting to become fashionable to call out the pharmaceutical industry for its corrupting influence on both the practice of health care and on the general public’s conception of what it means to be healthy. I, for one, think this … Continue reading
Psychiatry’s sorry state
I just finished reading HEAD CASE: Can psychiatry be a science?, an excellent article by Louis Menand in the The New Yorker. The article makes clear what I’ve already come to realize over the last twenty years studying and working … Continue reading
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Integrating An Ounce Of Prevention (CBS News)
[November 5, 2009] Dr. Jon LaPook investigated Duke Integrative Medicine’s non-traditional approach to preventing health issues before they happen. Duke believes this is the future of healthcare. Watch CBS News Videos Online
Mindfulness & Psychotherapy ~ Shinzen Young
Shinzen Young talks about the historical cross-fertilization between early Buddhism and other cultures, and goes on to share how now in the west, neuroscience, physics, contemplative traditions and psychotherapy are being cross-fertilized with mindfulness practice. He goes on to share … Continue reading
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