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Frances Garrett • March 14, 2024
Like Rocks and Mountains
A Contemplative Science Program Under Threat
In December when my cousin Kristin died, I was living in a windswept cedar-shingled house perched on a stone foundation 3,500 miles away, near the cold and rocky beaches of Nova Scotia. Kristin and I grew up together, spending summers… -
JCS Editor • November 9, 2023
OP-ED
OP-ED: Critical Mindfulness in Contemplative Education
Dr. Nadine Levy, Nan Tien Institute In secular educational settings, mindfulness is taught primarily with reference to its observable and measurable scientific benefits. Educators often refer to findings of brain imaging studies that reveal mindfulness can significantly alter brain structure…
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JCS Editor • February 7, 2025
Special Issue Article
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • January 30, 2025
Contemplation + Nature
An Interview With Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo is the president and founder of NeuroLandscape and editor in chief of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. She is the author of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes (2023). -
JCS Editor • January 19, 2025
Book Review
Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review discusses Marcia Falk’s Night of Beginnings, a reimagined Passover Haggadah designed to inspire contemplative practice. Falk combines poetic liturgy, gender-inclusive language, and mystical reflections to offer new interpretations of traditional Jewish texts. She… -
JCS Editor • January 13, 2025
Book Review
Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review explores how urban green spaces can promote mental well-being through intentional design informed by neuroscience, as discussed by Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo in Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes, published in 2023. The book… -
Ame Wren • January 9, 2025
Sharath Jois
The Active Series
On November 8, 2024, the Contemplative Sciences Center hosted teacher, practitioner, and lineage holder of Ashtanga yoga, Sharath Jois, for an event revealing his new series, The Active Series, and accompanying book by the same name. The event was cohosted… -
JCS Editor • January 6, 2025
Special Issue Article
Practicing the “Threefold Mystery”: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…