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David Sloan Wilson - Conscious Evolution

Mind & Life

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Individualism and Mindfulness Based Therapies

For the last 50 years, it has been a article of faith that everything has to be explained in terms of the individual as some kind of atonymous unit. And i think it also pervades the mindfulness based literature. I'm most familiar with the psychological literature on mindfulness base therapies and other forms of mindfulness base therapies. But i think it's also true from contemplative traditions that, once again, it's the individual that is the unit. We're now we're moving towards where we're leaving the era, the individualistic era,  and we're moving into this very interesting, multi level era when functional organization is actually a movable boundary. What that reveals is our need to

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