The Understudied Side of Contemplation: Words, Images, and Intentions in a Syncretic Spiritual Practice.
The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis 2020 Michael Lifshitz, Joshua Brahinsky, Tanya M Luhrmann
The science of contemplation has focused on mindfulness in a manner quite disproportionate to its use in contemplative traditions. Mindfulness, as understood within the scientific community, is a practice that invites practitioners to disattend to words and images. The practitioner is meant to experience things as they "really are," unfolding here and now in the flux of embodied sensations. Yet...