Buddhist Brains: Meditation and Science (video)

Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Anne Harrington (hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at Boston University's Danielsen Institute)

(BU) Eastern Brains: Probing the Partnership Between Buddhism and and Brain Science

  

MRI brain scan of meditating monk (BBC)

Harvard University's Professor Anne Harrington (Ph.D., Oxford University) discusses the relationship between Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana) and the brain. The presentation was hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at Boston University's Danielsen Institute.
 

Want me to concentrate or bliss out? (MR)

She refers to the research of the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Richard Davidson on the brain functions of Buddhist monastics during long periods of meditation as well as American fascination with the Eastern-style of meditation of the human 1960s and 1970s counterculture.
 
She covers Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Dalai Lama's first visit to the U.S. as well as why he was so important to the West's academic and scientific investigation of mystical meditative states.
  

Seeing faeries, waterfalls of Yosemite (video)

Amber Larson, Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Sidath Senanayake; Jenni McKinnon

Wood carving of the Buddha Shakyamuni, Maritime Museum, Galle, Sri Lanka (Sidaths/flickr)

Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, 2013 (Sidath Senanayake/flickr.com)

 

Over Nevada Falls

Devi, faerie (anaan)

The Mist Trail in California's Yosemite National Park takes hikers upstream along the Merced River's tumble east toward the valley. The walk winds forward and back past several beautiful waterfalls, culminating at the top of the most impressive one of all, Nevada Falls.

 

This is the view from as close as one could get to the top of the falls without getting arrested. It shows the view down into Yosemite Valley and the path along which one walks to get to this awesome view.

(AskFaeries.com) Here is a video about how I came to SEE faeries (Buddhist devas) after seeing a film about them. I came to know, love, and communicate with these beings of light. I get a lot from interacting with them. I wrote a book. You can ask a question. - F.J.M.

Wisdom: Befriending Faeries

Shooting with an ultrawide lens makes things look farther away, so the sound from this spot was a frightening roar of the water cascading over the edge a few feet away. In fact, we had to lean forward (carefully) so that lens did not include dusty shoes in the photo.

This image is a composition of two horizontal frames shot in landscape -- one frame pointing 45 degrees down, the other pointing straight toward the horizon. Each of the frames is composed of three separate photos taken at different exposure settings to capture the large variations in brightness (shooting into the sun).

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Natural waterfalls in rain-rich Southeast Asia, Thailand (Camera30f/flickr.com)