0 During the last four decades that I’ve been practicing meditation the public perception of this practice has shifted dramatically. In 1968 the Beatles brought meditation to the world stage in what would surely rate as the PR coup of all time. More recently a mounting flood of brain research demonstrating the physiological benefits of…

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1 Meditating on the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland Forty years ago today I found myself walking up a forest path from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, headed for the Ananda Marga meditation center. I was about to take initiation on the path of tantric meditation. Not the weird erotic cult kind, (sorry if that…

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0 This Article is contributed by my dear friend and colleague, Dr Sid Jordan. Sid is a clinical psychologist specializing in guided imagery, and a spiritual teacher (Acarya) of Ananda Marga Yoga tradition. You can find out more about his work at the Institute he co-founded – The Prama Institute. www.pramainstitute.org       A review of neuroscience…

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