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Colin H. Simonds

3 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2023-2025

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Exploring the Impact of Teacher-Led Silent Meditation Practices in Buddhist Sunday Schools

Journal of Nonformal Education May 7, 2025 I Ketut Damana, Colin H. Simonds

There is a notable reluctance or uncertainty among practitioners regarding the effective grasp and application of health meditation techniques, which impacts the overall effectiveness of meditation education and potentially hinders the optimization of student learning outcomes in health meditation. This study aims to assess and enhance the effectiveness of teacher education methods in Buddhist...

Intersections with Indigeneity in Psychedelic Buddhism

Psychedelic Intersections January 17, 2025 Colin H. Simonds 1 citation

Approaches to Psychedelic Buddhism are at times extractive, at times collaborative; they at times respect roots and lineages, and at times innovate, eschewing traditional practices. By analyzing them through the Indigenous logics of authority found in Indigenous plant medicine communities and the Buddhist tradition, we can better understand novel syncretic psychedelic traditions and work...

View, meditation, action: A Tibetan framework to inform psychedelic-assisted therapy

Journal of Psychedelic Studies March 28, 2023 Colin H. Simonds 6 citations

Abstract Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or ayahuasca, global contemplative practices have established effective systems of implementing, directing, and integrating the very kinds of non-ordinary experiences central to psychedelic use. However, contemplative traditions are largely absent from the...