A new study has found a link between untreated depression in older adults and decreased effectiveness of the herpes zoster, or shingles, vaccine.Older adults are known to be at risk for shingles, a painful condition caused by the reactivation of [...]
In this profound poem TS Eliot describes the experience of "the stillness, between the two waves of the sea" - which is an obvious reference to the meditative experience of mental silence that is found in the space between two [...]
The emerging youth mental health crisis makes it clear to mental health professionals, educators and researchers that for some reason our young people are having ever-greater difficulty controlling their mental and emotional content, their inner world. The situation reminds me [...]
We now face a rupture or discontinuity in our view of ourselves, in what it is to be human, that will change profoundly how we live: one that will renounce the present excessive emphasis on the material and individual, and [...]
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 [...]