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From Columbia University Press:
Our best-selling mind and consciousness scholar boldly corrects the balance between empirical study and religion by bringing the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity into a dialogue with the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals their unified approach to discerning the objective world. Wallace begins by linking Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He out- lines a sequence of meditations for the reader to undertake that show, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace approaches contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He connects Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly integrates the work of Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes new strides in the mapping of the mind.
"Mind in the Balance addresses in a lucid, extremely well informed, and often quite original way what is now widely seen as the greatest lacuna in modern understanding: the actual nature of mind or consciousness. Its consistent advocacyof logical rigor, its basis in a truly magisterial knowledge of Buddhist,Christian, and other contemplativepractices, its deep familiarity with contemporary scientific thinking, and its imaginative and creative merging of all these strands make it a significant contribution to the field."

-Robert Mayer, University of Oxford

"Always challenging and controversial, B. Alan Wallace's abilities as a scholar and writer give this book an accessibility and breadth rarely encountered. Wallace's largely successful bridging of history, theory, Christianity, Buddhism and science make his book truly unique."

-Adam Frank, University of Rochester

Dr Linda Carlson

2007 recipient of the William E. Rawls Prize

Dr Linda Carlson is an outstanding young innovator in the field of psychosocial oncology.

She has made critical contributions to our understanding of psychological distress in cancer patients, and has evaluated interventions such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), yoga, and other complementary treatments for cancer patients. She has also studied the effects of these interventions on the immune system. Dr Carlson’s work has influenced clinical practice in Canada and around the world.

Dr Carlson holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology co-funded by the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta/NWT Division, at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, holds several millions of dollars in grant funding and regularly presents her work at international conferences.

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Paul Grossman is Director of the Psychophysiology Research Laboratory, Department of Psychosomatic and Internal Medicine, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, and the Freiburg Institute for Mindfulness Research, Freiburg, Germany. He studied philosophy and psychology, and received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Florida. Previously Director of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health, he has held positions at the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is President-Elect and Executive Board Member of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology.
His empirical research interests have aimed toward the expansion of autonomic, respiratory and cardiovascular physiology into psychological and behavioral domains. He has published many journal articles and chapters that examine how breathing and cardiovascular activity are modified, in health and disease, by emotion, mental activity and psychological state. For the past several years, Dr. Grossman has also investigated the benefits of mindfulness meditation for health-related disorders, and he is currently Principal Investigator of a large randomized controlled trial that evaluates the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) among individuals suffering from fibromyalgia. He is additionally interested in issues regarding the transfer and translation of Buddhist psychological principles and concepts to Western psychological paradigms.

Zindel Segal is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is Head of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate training in Psychology at McGill University and completed his graduate work at Queen's University.
Dr. Segal's research focuses on cognitive mechanisms of relapse vulnerability in affective disorder, especially the way in which transient dysphoria can (re)evoke depressive knowledge structures in semantic memory. He is currently conducting a 5 year NIMH funded study to evalute the sequencing of pharmacological remission in depression with mindfulness-based prophylaxis for the prevention of depressive relapse and recurrence. Dr. Segal is a member of the NIMH Interventions Review Committee and has served as an associate editor for Cognitive Therapy and Research. He has published over 150 scientific articles and 7 books including: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (with Williams and Teasdale)which advocates for the relevance of mindfulness-based clinical care in psychiatry and mental health.

John Teasdale received his first degree in psychology from the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, he studied for his Ph.D. in abnormal psychology, and trained as a clinical psychologist, at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, where he then taught for a number of years. After working as a National Health Service clinical psychologist in the University Hospital of Wales, he began a thirty year period of full-time research, supported by the Medical Research Council, first in the Department of Psychiatry, Univeristy of Oxford, subsequently in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.
The continuing focus of this research has been the investigation of basic psychological processes and the application of that understanding to the relief of emotional disorders. Initially this involved the development and evaluation of behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders, subsequently the exploration of cognitive approaches to understanding and treating major depression, and, most recently, the development of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a program that is effective in substantially reducing future risk of major depression through an integration of mindfulness training and cognitive approaches.
Dr.Teasdale has published more than a hundred scientific papers and chapters, and co-authored three books. He has received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association, and has been elected Fellow of both the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is currently retired, pursuing personal interests in meditation and mindfulness training.

This historic meeting is the 18th in a series of international science dialogues that have been organized by the Mind and Life Institute, www.mindandlife.org, which was co-founded by the Dalai Lama in 1987. From very modest beginnings, the Mind and Life Institute has become a world leading organization, stimulating the scientific research on the effects of meditation and contemplative practice on the mind and brain and in the prevention and treatment of disease. These dialogues have also contributed toward a deep engagement between modern science and the world's living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism.
Future Mind and Life dialogues are planned for Washington DC in October, 2009. Please visit the event web site at www.EducatingWorldCitizens.org; Zurich, Switzerland in April 2010 and New Delhi in November 2010.

Topics to be covered are:

•    Multi-tasking, Meditation, and Contemplative Practice
•    The Buddhist Contribution to First-Person Cognitive Science
•    Mental Processes Underlying Attention, Visual Perception, and Cognitive Control
•    Paying Attention to Awareness: “Attention” (manasika – ra–), “Mindfulness” (sati) and “Clear Comprehension” (samapajañña)
•    Mental Processes for Attention and Cognitive Control in Children and Adolescents
•    The Utility of Improving Attention and Working Memory with Mindfulness-Based Training
•    Attention-Emotion Interface
•    Results of the Shamatha Project
•    Embodiment and Intersubjectivity: Empirical and Phenomenological Approaches
•    Education, Application, Buddhism, and Technology

Dialogue leaders and participants for this meeting are:

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama

Adele Diamond, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University
of Central Florida

Rupert Gethin, Ph.D., Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of
Bristol, UK

Amishi Jha, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

David E. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, New York University

Clifford Saron, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Mind and Brain,
University of California, Davis

Anne Treisman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

B. AlanWallace, Ph.D., President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness
Studies

Interpreters

Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics in
Montreal

B. AlanWallace, Ph.D., President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness
Studies

Conference Coordinators

David E. Meyer, Ph.D., Scientific coordinator
B. AlanWallace, Ph.D., Buddhist coordinator

Intention is fundamental to any project, endeavor, or journey. Related to intention is the concept of mindfulness—the awareness that arises through intentionally attending to oneself and others in an open, accepting, and discerning way. Drawing from Buddhist teachings and psychological theory, authors Shapiro and Carlson explore why mindful awareness is integral to the therapeutic healing process.

Their book integrates the art and science of mindfulness to inspire greater well-being in both clinicians and their patients. As such, mindfulness is understood as a universal human capacity that can help bridge the gap between therapist and patient, reminding us that we are all human beings aspiring to greater health, happiness, and freedom from suffering.

Me too a psychotherapist, with a buddhist background affiliation and affection.. work in the tense state of Israel where Soldiers and being in the army are part of every family life. From another point of view Israel is one of the most amazing countries outside of the east where a large percentage of young people have been exposed to meditation and Buddhist meditation in special. …

Myself, I have worked with soldiers, whilst in the army as well as when on the reserves (remember that these reserve soldiers are being summoned back to the army every year for at least a month), and used Mindfulness based practices, somatic experiencing (which is a trauma healing technique that has very deep connections with essential buddhist teachings), and simple insight/metta/tonglen meditations with them if they would be favourable of these. We have benefitted greatly from these, both them and me.

Now is the time that meditation researchers should agree on common physiological variables and measure them in their perspective meditating populations. The resulting physiological profiles could objectively classify meditation practices, serving as a brain-based matrix to discuss meditation practices and understand their effects on the mind, body and the environment.

There are other reasons for integrating science with Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetans marked the 50th anniversary of their exile this year, and a return to their homeland remains elusive. The need to keep Tibetan cultural identity alive, yet modern and relevant, has grown increasingly urgent as the 73-year-old Dalai Lama ages.

“If you remain isolated, you will disappear,” said Lhakdor, director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, in Dharamsala, who goes by one name. The Dalai Lama himself has often remarked that isolation from the world only aided Tibet’s fall to China.

That program has matured into the Emory-backed plan to introduce modern science into Tibetan monasteries in India within the next few years with help from the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

The Emory initiative has led to a science textbook in Tibetan and English, produced by Emory professors and translators from the library. Translation conferences yielded a science glossary that introduces words like electromagnetism, climate change and cloning into the Tibetan lexicon.

on key ethical virtues such as non-violence and empathic concern for the welfare of others, as well as a vast array of specific techniques, including different forms of meditation and reflective practices, that aim to cultivate such virtues. In adults, studies are beginning to document how these practices promote better emotional regulation …

Neuroscience is beginning to build a body of evidence on the positive effects of contemplative practices on the minds, brains and bodies of adults.

This meeting aims to identify new avenues of scientific inquiry and educational practice that aim to cultivate positive qualities that are particularly important in the global context of the 21st century.

10/20/2009

Our recently completed Mind and Life XIX: Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century dialogue with HH Dalai Lama and world-renowned educators, scientists and contemplatives was an enormous success. We filmed the dialogue in its entirety, using the latest digital technology so we could offer you a state of the art video recording of this historic event. This DVD set contains the complete dialogue exactly as it appeared on the large screens in the meeting auditorium, so you can experience the dialogue as if you were present in the hall with us.
For more information on the dialogue and to order this remarkable DVD set, click here

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