It is not widely understood that many western translations of Eastern meditative texts are heavily influenced by the Western translators' inability to comprehend the significance of the mental silence experience. Here is a new translation of one of the most [...]
New research from Stanford and Florida State universities, led by Baumeister, has attempted to differentiate between happiness and meaning. “Although happiness and meaning are important features of a desirable life and indeed are interrelated, they have different roots and implications,” [...]
In 1870 the psychiatrist R M Bucke had an extraordinary experience that transformed his understanding of the relationship between consciousness, wellbeing and mundane life. He described the experience of “Cosmic Consciousness” as follows: "All at once without warning of any [...]
The study found that there’s significant overlap between general intelligence and emotional intelligence, both in terms of behavior and where it happens in the brain. Higher scores on general intelligence tests corresponded significantly with higher performance on measures of emotional [...]
This “most religious of emperors”, and character in the recent movie Gladiator, was not only a great soldier and statesman but a fascinating philosopher as well. He studied the ideas of the Greek philosophers, particularly the stoics, and was initiated [...]
Based on the ancient definition of meditation - "a meditator sits and like a log he does not think" - researchers surveyed 343 long-term Sahaja yoga meditation practitioners and compared their results to the general population.Advertisement “We found that the [...]
The Russian scholar, Nicolai Notovich, was the first modern scholar to suggest that Christ may have gone to India. In 1887, Notovich, a Russian scholar and Orientalist, arrived in Kashmir during one of several journeys to the Orient. At the [...]
Dr Manocha's book is the only book I have ever seen which focuses specifically on the science which runs alongside the practice of meditation. And by focus we're talking about 15 years of solid research and numerous random controlled trials [...]
Being spiritual may give life deeper meaning but it can also mess up your mind, research suggests. A study found that people professing to be spiritual, but not conventionally religious, were more likely to suffer from a host of mental [...]
YOGIS have sworn by it for years, but now there is scientific proof that meditation eases stress and promotes better health.Meditation triggers change in electrical activity of the brain, improving the mind and body in measurable ways, the latest study [...]