Josh Waitzkin was a National Chess Champion as a boy, and the subject of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer.
He writes in his new book The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance about finding at a young age that “there is something profoundly hollow about the nature of fame. I had spent [...]
Ken Wilber : Eckhart Tolle says that what he is doing is essentially a reestablishment of Eastern forms of meditation and in one sense that is certainly true, although we do find this in Western forms of contemplation as well…paying attention to the timeless now, to the pure present and doing that as a [...]
The image is from the book Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge, by B. Alan Wallace, founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. The book notes “There are certainly kinds of neuronal activity that causally contribute to the emergence of specific states of consciousness and mental activity.”
Bill Harris, Director of [...]
