Science of the Mind (with Alan Wallace)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=983112177262602885&q=alan+wallace

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[Mork5]

Now I've watched Wallace and it looks like we have to wait one more hundred years for results after the mind science revolution just has started.

In the interim I would like to see more propagation of the methods such as meditation lessons becoming a part of education available in every high school.

Not only science but even more society is missing the integrational powers of contemplation trained minds.

[redliterocket4]

Problem is (well I don't think it is a problem but some may) the only verified methods for training the mind we have thus far are Buddhist. It's a question how some will react to mixing what some may consider (in my view wrongly) religion with education.

[boylebongo]

Thanks for sharing, I was hoping I'd find something cool to watch. I hope it's good! ^_^

[redliterocket4]

let me know what you think

[MaBu888]

That may be subject to change. All people are afraid, a little, of change. I commend you for being honest. Buddhism is not about burning away the ego, but disregarding the parts of the ego that are in conflict with the achieving of moment-tot-moment nonjudegemental awareness. Awareness is to naturalistic buddhism as intellectual honesty is to science. It doesn't matter that you enjoy being an individual, in fact buddhism is not about loosing your mind and individuality,atleast the forms some do.

[redliterocket4]

my knowledge of Holmes is very limited, but from what I've just read on wikipedia, I would probably like most of what he had to say. I especially like that he saw knowledge (thought) and action as one process. I also like that he wanted to do away with the good vs. evil duality.

[Mork5]

Yes - the dogmatics will strike back -

but Yoga lessons available are not considered to be part of Hinduism but more of a 'wellness' thing, and there are the mystical traditions of the monotheisms like the Sufis practice it or think of Meister Eckhard and Hildegard von Bingen, still they do it (but only) inside catholic monasteries.

If those traditions could be reinforced, the bright students will do the unification job by themselves.

[redliterocket4]

James had a lot of good things to say.

[0neInWater]

As a Psychology and Communication major I can honestly say that William James is one of my all time favorites. We've come a long way and there is still some resistance to the whole idea that the feeling part of us is worthy of exploration and understanding. That video gave some good examples of highly intelligent people who began to limit their level of open-mindedness due to previous success in their fields. Absolute certainty doesn't really exist ("the problem of causation" ... David Hume ).

[0neInWater]

I definitely feel that there is more to us than just that which can be understood scientifically. Maybe science, as we so far understand it, isn't capable of exploring that side of us without getting caught up in its own needs for absolutes. Perhaps these two just aren't meant to be together and progress better along their own paths. If science can't comprehend our humanity, then it is limited.

[parispeter2]

I disagree with Buddhism - I think it's great to be an individual :~)