For decades, misbehaving students in our culture could expect to be sent to detention, a form of punishment that is meant to discipline the unruly child: a practice that sometimes works, and sometimes does not. But one elementary school in Maryland saw that a form of negative punishment might not necessarily be the best approach to correcting negative behavior in young children, and instead sends its pint-sized perpetrators to a special meditation class instead.
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In 1972, shortly after earning his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in France, Matthieu Ricard left his life in academia for the Himalayas, to study Tibetan Buddhism. His studies would eventually lead him to become the French interpreter and a confidant to the Dalai Lama, and to author books on meditation and compassion. Ricard also has the interesting distinction of having been declared "happiest person in the world" by popular media, due to the results of his participation in a study on the effects of long-term meditation.
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This week, we go back to the beginnings of search, to the Pyramid Texts from 4,000 years ago. We find in the ancient Egyptian word "ta-ntr," or "holy ground" a clue to the kind of energies we need in order to ascend from the wheel of life, which is now known as tantra. As always, much of this material is entirely new with Whitley Strieber, as he continues on this first-of-a-kind journey between the world of the living and "what we call death," led by his wife Anne.
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For many millennia, the secrets of awakening have been hidden. Now, Whitley and Anne Strieber, working together, are opening new doors to those secrets. In this discussion Whitley Strieber explains the relationship between esoteric and scientific understanding of the brain, then he goes into another amazing teaching from Anne Strieber, this one that shows the connection between the Great Work of alchemy and the 21st card of the Marseilles Tarot.

He then begins an explanation of just how to make use of the Tarot and to read its mysterious language in such a way that it is actually useful to one’s inner work and exploration of higher mind.
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