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Dealing with Death

October 8, 2015 by Jennifer Hancock

“The main thing I’ve learned and actually relearned about grief in the last few weeks is just how communal an experience it is…”

Categories Free Tags coping, death, emotion, feeling, grief, grieving, naturalism 2 Comments

The Centrality of Emotion, Part 2: An Ancient Approach to Modern Science

January 16, 2015January 8, 2015 by B. T. Newberg

How can we discover a path that makes emotion genuinely central, but which is also rooted in today’s best scientific evidence?

Categories Free Tags emotion, psychology 2 Comments

The Centrality of Emotion, Part 1: What Ancient Philosophy Offers Modern Naturalists

September 14, 2015December 4, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

We need more than intellectual principles – we need fully-embodied life practice motivated by emotion.

Categories Free Tags desire, emotion, feelings, practice 11 Comments
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