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Re:Meditation in Psychotherapy & Meditation v EMDR
Lindsay Smith · 07/31/03 at 6:11 PM ET
Meditation practises & skills must be ancient. Traditions in Asia go back thousands of years. The Australian Aboriginal 'dreamtime' & similar traditions represent even more ancient traditions. I have an audiotape of a 'singing' group near Gagidu, Morobe, Nuigini [PNG] that I made when I was teaching there in 1975. It wasn't a 'field study' just my response as a musician to what I found to be spontaneous & fascinating. The group's dancing, drumming & singing was hypnotic & continued from dusk until dawn. I recorded a discussion about the performance with the local primary school principal, an elder from that tribal group, a high school student who spoke the local languages & myself with the wonderful exhuberant yet focused & serious performers in the background. There were tall 3 totem figures in the centre, dancers with frames about 5 metres high danced in the hub of the circle. One carried a goblet shaped object made from bush materials on his pole. That represented a sacred cave on tribal land. The other 2 principal dancers carried 'spirit guardians' representing a python & the other a crocodile. The male dancers, around 40 of them playing kundu [hour glass drums] moved around the principals while the women in pairs with grass tufts covering their buttocks moved in pairs arms linked together. The people condensed the circle to 'consult' with the 'spirit guardians' & then moved out in a wavelike motion for the chorus sections. To more directly reply to your question, I got home last night from a 3 day hypnotherapy workshop where I picked up "Destructive Emotions" .. A dialogue with The Dalai Lama narrated by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional I have only read a few pages but I think is represents a new direction for the behavioral sciences & education. Neuroscience & ancient meditation training pointing a way forward. At least I hope it does.
Intelligence. Published by Bloomsbury, 2003.
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