Ancient Vedic wisdom is revolutionizing modern healthcare. Practices like Ayurveda and Transcendental Meditation are ...

Higher states of consciousness are not hallucinations but authentic transformational experiences, mostly triggered by turmoil ...

Psychedelics and meditation may be the two best ways to facilitate the sensory examination of consciousness. The research concerning those who have done so suggests that they have found that their ...

Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and other practices are gaining in popularity due to their potential to improve health and well-being. The effects of these practices are mostly positive and ...

Contrary to popular belief, meditation isn't "thinking about nothing." In fact, a new international study on Buddhist monks ...

Meditation may calm the mind, but a recent study suggests it can also reshape brain activity by profoundly altering brain ...

From a neuroscience point of view, if one has the patience for it, one can wade through the 870-page book Zen and the Brain by a neurologist [1], which is packed with technical detail about the brain ...

When the Society for Neuroscience asked Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (the leader of Tibetan Buddhism), to address its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in 2005, a few hundred members among the ...