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Animal looks within while Gonzo offers his 'stay at home enlightenment course'

Monks have always pushed the boundaries of intense practice. I'm no monk, but a meditation marathon is one hell of a practice.

Turning towards our demons. Awakening to the fullness of each messy moment. A meditation with Catherine of Siena.
A prayer from Bruce Sanguin, looked at through the lens of meditation.

Six Beams contributors interview photographer Dennis Cordell about his work and his creative process.

Another first person account of meditation, this time reporting from inside an isolation chamber.

What can apple trees tell us about who we are? Allan Watts and Trevor Malkinson break it down. (video)
Why would someone become a student of a spiritual teacher? What does the teacher-student relationship have to offer someone on the spiritual path? Spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen interviews 25 spiritual leaders about their relationship with their teachers, offering a unique window into this old and at times controversial tradition. The audios of these interviews is available for free on-line.
Why meditate? What can it add to your life? Bergen shares a journal two years in the making of his annual commitment to meditate for 24 hours -- in a row. No incense and candles here; just the backbreaking effort born of conviction that one-pointedness cuts the fog like nothing else.
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Hi Rebecca! I'm quite honored that you read my piece - you're quite a force, so I appreciate your appreciation of my…
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great great great great great great. i just did not have the energy to take this on and i knew it had…
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Oh and one more thing, just read this from Joe's interview with Stuart Davis...
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I had a conversation with some other ICC alumni just yesterday in Ottawa, specifically about love and Martin Ucik's book…
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Rochelle,
This dance gets better!
The distinction you make about how kids deal with overwhelm when things do not work is to…
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Hey Rochelle - really appreciate u taking on this tendency of the integral community to deny all kinds of constructed reality in…
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ah, Gregor, thanks for explaining the optimism bias, I think I get it - partly a defense against our mortality, partly fuel…
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Lindsay, what you say about retaining our sense of higher levels of health applies on both a conscious and unconscious level. On…
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Great conversation everyone, and great article TJ. It's got me thinking that there's probably a lot of places where psychological, mystic, religious…
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Gregor - something the bunch of us have talked about with regard to the stuff we publish - we see our essays…
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Hey TJ,
I can barely ski a blue, so I'm smoking what you're rolling here!
Lot's to ponder here, thanks for the…
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Gregor - I felt exhilarated and exhausted after the ski run. I've never attempted a black diamond run on an actual ski…
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No worries, John - people call me Seth all the time.
You raise a very good point, about the verifiability of the…
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Re books by Naranjo, most influential for me was 'The One Quest'. He and Robert Ornstein wrote 'Psychology of Meditation', and…
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I think I meant to say 'how you felt'! ha
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Hey TJ, you forgot to tell us who you felt after the ski run!
I hadn't thought intersecting those two before, my…
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Whoops - I meant to address that to TJ, not Seth. :)
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Seth, what bothers me about the Enneagram is that, for instance, reading "The Wisdom of the Enneagram" we are offered, again and…
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