by Rick Hanson | Aug 10, 2009 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
© Rick Hanson, Ph.D. 2009 1 Rivers flow and eddies form.An eddy is a relatively stable pattern whose elements continually change. It is “standing-streaming,” a term from Evan Thompson’s marvelous book, Mind in Life. All eddies disperse eventually. 2 In a river, an...
by Rick Hanson | May 13, 2009 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
The knowledge of neuroscience has doubled in the last twenty years. It will probably double again in the next twenty years. I think that neuropsychology is, broadly, about where biology was a hundred years after the invention of the microscope: around 1725. In...
by Rick Hanson | Feb 24, 2008 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
© Rick Hanson, Ph.D., 2008www.RickHanson.net Simply localizing function in the brain may add little information of practical use to an already adequate psychological or spiritual account – even if there’s a picture. Neural networks are extraordinarily interdependent...
by Rick Hanson | Sep 5, 2007 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
© Rick Hanson, PhD and Rick Mendius, MD, 2007 In a way, the methodologies of Buddhist thought and science are essentially similar.The Dalai Lama We all want to be truly happy. The question is, how? In Buddhist practice, the “how” includes gradually transforming the...
