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The Lama in the Lab: Neuroscience and Meditation

By Daniel Goleman — 2013

Daniel Goleman reports on the Dalai Lama and the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.

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Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds

Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain’s physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions...

The Dalai Lama, Zara Houshmand (editor), Robert B. Livingston (editor), B. Alan Wallace (editor)

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Evolution and the Primacy of Love

According to Teilhard de Chardin, evolution ushered in a new understanding of reality based on love-energy. This year's annual lecture explores Teilhard's philosophy of love and the import of conscious love for the direction of human evolution.

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Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People

The record of a day of meditation instruction with spirited questions from a rationally-minded audience, MIND SCIENCE achieves what most books on meditation rarely do: It’s actually fun to read, and it imparts much useful information without religious or mystical overtones.

Charles T. Tart

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Quantum Mind: The Edge Between Physics and Psychology

Arnold Mindell is the founder of a new school of therapy called Process-Oriented Psychology and is known throughout the world for his innovative synthesis of dreams, bodywork, Jungian therapy, group process, consciousness studies, shamanism, quantum physics, and small and large group conflict...

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Trauma and the Unbound Body

Judith teaches the main practices of the Realization Process, a direct, embodied method of personal and relational healing and nondual awakening. She discusses the application of these practices to healing from trauma.

Judith Blackstone

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J. Krishnamurti in Conversation with David Bohm: Is There an Action Not Touched by Thought?

Q: What is the future of man? All the problems that humanity has now, psychologically and in other ways, are the result of thought. We are pursuing the same pattern of thought, and thought will never solve any of these problems. The whole structure of the me is put together by thought.

J. Krishnamurti

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God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us about Our Origins and How We Should Live

Move over, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens—a highly regarded nuclear physicist enters the debate about the existence of God, and comes down on the side of the angels.

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The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World

Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence, declares University of Oregon physicist Goswami, echoing the mystic sages of his native India. He holds that the universe is self-aware, and that consciousness creates the physical world.

Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed (contributor), Maggie Goswami (contributor)

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order

David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J.

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Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death

The scientific evidence for life after death: • Explains why near-death experiences (NDEs) offer evidence of an afterlife and discredits the psychological and physiological explanations for them • Challenges materialist arguments against consciousness surviving death • Examines ancient and...

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Neuroplasticity