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The Power of the Collective
A remarkable series of scientifically credible studies has shown a link between group meditation and lowered incidents of violence and crime. And why not? argues Hagelin: If meditation is good ...
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2007
- 4 pages
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"Healing Power of Meditation" with Susan Taylor
Imagine combining meditation science with time-tested nutritional, breathing and relaxation techniques. Dr. Susan Taylor did. Today, the growing popularity of yoga has offered many people a glimpse into the benefits of meditation. Yet, while yoga is traditionally intended as a preparation for deeper meditative experiences, yoga classes often only address the physical aspects of the practice.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-06-18
- 01:00:34
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Electrocortical Activity Prior to Unpredictable Stimuli in Meditators and Non-meditators
Advanced meditators occasionally report experiences of timelessness, or states of awareness that seem to transcend the usual boundaries of the subjective present. This study investigates this awareness in eight experienced meditators and eight matched controls by measuring 32 channels of EEG before, during, and after exposure to unpredictable light and sound stimuli.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 2011
- 14 pages
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"Hypnosis and Meditation" with Charles Tart
Differences, Similarities, and Practical Implications for Personal and Spiritual Growth
Dr. Tart discusses similarities and differences between hypnosis and mediation. If we look more closely at typical forms of the two kinds of practices, all sort of interesting differences emerge.
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:10:53
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness as an “inner technology” can heal the social body, writes meditation teacher Kabat-Zinn.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
- 1 page
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"A Guided Meditation of Forgiveness" with Azim Khamisa (part 1 of 2)
When Azim's only son was murdered, he found that his practice of meditation had given him the compassion and grace to practice forgiveness. Azim offers this meditation as a way to cultivate forgiveness, as it is through forgiveness that we can create a culture of peace.
- Audio Lectures
- 2006-05-02
- 00:10:46
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"A Guided Meditation of Forgiveness" with Azim Khamisa (part 2 of 2)
When Azim's only son was murdered, he found that his practice of meditation had given him the compassion and grace to practice forgiveness. Azim offers this meditation as a way to cultivate forgiveness, as it is through forgiveness that we can create a culture of peace.
- Audio Lectures
- 2006-05-02
- 00:41:02
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"Bridging the Worlds of Contemplative Practice and Science" with Alfred Kaszniak
This discussion focuses on some of the fruits of "contemplative science," and the implications of this body of meditation research for contemplative practice. It also explores how this area of research has come to gain increasing respectability within the scientific community, and address the question of whether contemplative science may serve as a skillful means for making meditation practice more approachable for a greater number of people in modern western culture.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-16
- 01:02:54
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The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation
A Review of Contemporary Research
IONS' intent is to provide access to citations for all scientific research studies into meditation that have been published in English.
- Publications Bibliographies
- June 1997
- 286 pages
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"Science of Meditation" with Roger Walsh
Roger Walsh discusses how the meeting of meditative and Western psychological disciplines holds major theoretical and practical implications for each, as well as the promise of mutual enrichment and potential integrations. If handled skillfully, this meeting may enable them to become partners in one of the greatest of human quests—the exploration, understanding, healing, and enhancement of the human mind.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-11-17
- 00:54:52
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Mind in the Balance
Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world.
- Publications Books
- March 1, 2009
- 264 pages
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"Varieties of Dissociation Experience" with Stanley Krippner (part 1 of 2)
Stanley Krippner, PhD is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis all over the world.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:39:44
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"Varieties of Dissociation Experience" with Stanley Krippner (part 2 of 2)
Stanley Krippner, PhD is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis all over the world.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:33:01
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 1 of 5)
Meditation, Yoga, and Consciousness
IONS Board Member Lee Lipsenthal talks with IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz about changes in allopathic health care and the wider acceptance of meditation, yoga, and consciousness in healing practices.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:57
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"Leader as Healer and Agent of Transformation" with Robert Gass
With host and former IONS president James O'Dea, committed social change agent, Robert Gass, shares stories of his own personal and professional challenges and triumphs and the value of meditation and the application of noetic principles to shifting difficult situations from hopeless to life-affirming.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-04-04
- 01:02:20
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Contemplative Mind, Hard Science
In this tantalizing excerpt from his new book, the Dalai Lama suggests that Western science will never understand consciousness without some help from an ancient tradition.
- Publications Articles
- December 2005 - February 2006
- 4 pages
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Mindful Awareness of Breathing Meditation
This guided meditation was created by Cassandra Vieten as part of the Mindful Motherhood Project. It is one element of a three-part set of guided meditations intended especially for mothers and mothers soon to be, and readers of the book, Mindful Motherhood.
- Audio Experientials
- 2011-01-24
- 00:25:40
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"Yoga and Sacred Activism" with Shiva Rea (excerpt)
Shiva begins with a meditation from the ancient Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, which explores the vibratory nature of consciousness. She and host Stephen Dinan then explore how consciousness becomes "calcified" in the body, a state that can be shifted through dance, movement, yoga, and other spontaneous motions.
- Audio Shorts
- 2007-07-18
- 00:04:39
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Embracing Mind
The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
What is Mind? For this ancient question we are still seeking answers. B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel propose a science of the mind based on the contemplative wisdom of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, and Islam.
- Publications Books
- December 23, 2008
- 272 pages