However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.