Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm and the Dark Side of Meditation

Watkins Media

by Steve Nobel Listen to this podcast with pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm, who put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. They are both authors of The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Actually Change You? Separating fact from fiction they reveal what research and their own ground-breaking studies tell us about the benefits and limitations of these techniques for improving our lives. On this podcast you will hear about: •Mindfulness, is it as good as people say it is? •Meditation, does it make us better people? •Are there any adverse effects to meditation? •Can mindfulness and meditation be divorced from spiritual ethics and spiritual practice?