Happiness: A Spiritual & Scientific Inquiry
By Lily Rockefeller We spend much of our lives...
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Lily Rockefeller
A Methodology for Art and Awakening
For pioneering composer, singer, and interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk, the boundary between her artistic practice and her dharma practice has increasingly dissolved.
Garrison Co-founder Explores Contemplation to Action on Tricycle’s Podcast
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AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part II
We continue our two-part series on the Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination conference, held online October 17-18. We invited our speakers to sit with the same two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part I
As we prepare for the upcoming Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination
conference, held virtually October 17-18, we invited our speakers to sit with the same
two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing
that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
Skymind and Shadow: Illuminating Reality with a Vast Mind
What if the darkest corners of ourselves, the places we most want to avoid, are actually lighting a path to greater freedom?
Accompanying Suffering: The Science Behind Contemplative Care
Not every challenge in medicine has a clinical solution. Illness, grief, uncertainty, and loss all ask something of clinicians that extends beyond their ability to diagnose and treat: the capacity to be present in the face of suffering.
Beyond the Individual: Ecodharma and the Relational Mind
The environmental crisis is often described in the language of science, economics, or public policy. Less frequently do we ask what kind of mind produces a civilization capable of destabilizing the ecological systems upon which it depends.
Exploring the Intelligence of Somatic Practice
Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and meditation instructor Kathy Cherry’s retreat at Garrison Institute this week, “Beyond Calm: The Intelligence of Presence” engages somatic work, a growing field that focuses on the connection between the physical body and mental health. Kathy sat down with us to answer some questions for readers curious to learn more about this innovative field and her work within it.