Health and the Body Politics
How do we evaluate the health of a society?
IFS Corner
The Case for Meditation
How do you make a case for something? Science, a method that looks at evidence systematically, is one way to do this. Another way is anecdotal evidence, less rigorous than science but it is nevertheless valid. Traditional medicine has used it for centuries, far longer than scientific methods. Science starts by suspending assumptions about what …
What’s “Meditation” About?
If you had an amazingly useful tool or natural ability that you took for granted, wouldn’t you want to know more about it? Wouldn’t you want to intentionally use it and cultivate your ability? Most people would say “yes”! Well you do, and you can, and it’s called “awareness” or consciousness. You would neither exist …