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The Neuroscience of Suffering – And Its End
“Do not pursue the past. Do not usher in the future. Rest evenly with present awareness” (Tibetan meditation instruction) It was 1972, and Gary Weber, a 29-year old materials science PhD student at...
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Spiritual practice is not for everyone, but sometimes survivors of psychosis have a calling to discover the truth in the world’s mystical traditions. This essay summarizes some of the lessons I’ve...
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A Practical, Hard Work Guide to Evolutionary Consciousness
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Consciousness Explorers Club’s Monday Night Reality Adventure – September...
The Consciousness Explorers Club Meditate. Celebrate. Activate. “When we begin practice, the self and the world seem to be material. Space is rigid, objects are solid, there is a carnality to the body...
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The Consciousness Explorers Club – October Events “You have to be somebody before you can be nobody.” – Jack Engler The Harvard psychotherapist and early science-of-meditation pioneer Jack Engler wrote...
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Rachel M. Walls – Poetic Healing
My first poem just sort of came to me. I had no idea, at the time, the impact it would have on my life. During a warm summer evening in Barcelona, I encountered a woman—the most beautiful woman I have...
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How Zen Masters Die
Tell it to no one but the wise For most will mock it right away The truly living do I prize Those who long in flame to die. . . . Distance cannot slow your flight Spellbound through the air you’re...
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St. Elmo Village and the Importance of Art-making in Childhood Development
Before there was such a thing as ‘Art Therapy,’ there was St. Elmo Village. Rozzell and Roderick Sykes, both painters and uncle and nephew, respectively, wanted to create something positive, impacting,...
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Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD – From Enough! to enough: A Doorway Into Wiser Living
Kuzana Ogg, “Palvala” Have you ever heard someone say that they had had enough in a way that felt peaceful and full of contentment? A way that made you convinced and possibly inspired, or maybe even...
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Plant Medicine and Meditation – Synergies and Lessons
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story” – Native American proverb These days it seems everyone is into ayahuasca, an indigenous plant medicine that has become the focus of a fledgling...
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