Mindhacks

Last week, the Dalai Lama joined a dozen top brain researchers in Washington, D.C., in a round of talks on the science and clinical application of meditation.
   
Tibet’s spiritual leader has taken it upon
himself to bridge the gap between the
Eastern practice of meditation and
neuroscience. For a decade now,
he has challenged brain scientists to
study Buddhist practices of mindfulness
and meditation to understand how they
change the human brain.

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Spirituality is important to a majority of scientists in the United States’ elite research universities, says the researcher of a new study on religion.

These scientists are confounding the
prevailing opinion that academics
aren’t religious.

Researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund,
a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University
in Houston, surveyed more than 1,600
scientists from 21 elite research
universities. Ecklund designed the
survey to examine scientists’ religious and
spiritual beliefs as well as their practices.

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"We are sprits in physical form" — a simple, dramatically powerful statement in one of Dr. Andrew Weil’s best-sellers on nutrition. He offered no elaboration; but none is needed. Because he’s absolutely right.

The spiritual is a new frontier of human experience. Polls show us increasingly to be "more spiritual than religious" with more of us having the mystical sense of something larger — the sense that consciousness is not confined to our brains.

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