Another reason I wish the BBC player worked in the US
Unfortunately I didn't see "The Big Silence," a documentary about five people on a week-long silent retreat, which aired on BCC Two last fall. Serena Davis' piece about
Ambient religious communication
Arizona State professor Pauline Hope Cheong has an interesting article about the use of Twitter and microblogging and "ambient religious communication:" What would Jesus tweet? Historically, the quest
Group versus individual contemplation
How does the collective exercise of contemplative practices improve individual abilities? I need to figure this out. When I talk to people here in the lab, words like "contemplation" and "meditation" sound
“Solvitur ambulando” was the first expression of embodied cognition
In the New York Times, Edinburgh philosopher Andy Clark has a nice essay on embodied cognition. If you’re familiar with his book Natural Born Cyborgs, you’ll already know