It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis

Here's a blog in Psychology Today -- It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis -- that might be of interest: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-art-flourishing/201205/it-would-be-pity-waste-good-crisis

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia

My friend Jesse Kornbluth--creator of HeadButler.com-- alerted me to a fascinating post by Tom Engelhardt on Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, a visionary novel published in 1975 that could still enlighten us today. Please take the time to read it: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175538/ Who was he? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/the-ecotopiast-who-glimpsed-the-future/?hp

David Foster Wallace's This is Water

Here's a link to a very thoughtful and insightful meditation by David Foster Wallace on how to flourish in a world that threatens to crush us: http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words

Review of The Science of Yoga

Here is a link to my review of William Broad's The Science of Yoga: http://www.headbutler.com/

Radio interview on The Art of Flourishing

Here is a link to an interview on The Art of Flourishing with Dr. Michael Finkelstein on businesstalkradio.net: http://sunraven.org/index.php/2012-2/

Scandals in the Yoga World

In the face of the recent round of scandals in the yoga community it is tempting to rationalize and deny what happened or vilify those involved. One of the important-- and neglected--aspects of the yogic eight limbed path is self-study (svadhyaya). Members of the yoga world would do best to explore the scandals with a spirit of curiosity about what they can learn.

Meditation and Psychoanalysis

The all-day workshop on meditation and psychoanalysis in Tucson, Arizona on March 3rd went extremely well. The audience-comprised of psychotherapists and meditators, yoga teachers and lay people-was very excited about the possibilities of cross-pollination.