Which meditation app?

Which meditation app?

Meditation apps are no longer a niche choice – there are dozens of them, and most people who try one get something real out of it. The harder question is which one actually suits you, and what it costs to find out. Which? is the UK’s independent consumer...
The man who lost his head

The man who lost his head

Douglas Harding, photographed in the 1950s – around the decade he first began teaching the exercise built on Ernst Mach’s own headless self-portrait, sketched from Mach’s point of view in 1886. Photo: Douglas Harding Archive, 1950s. Illustration: Ernst...
Waking up reviewed

Waking up reviewed

Sam Harris: “The resource I wish I’d had when I began meditating thirty years ago.” Photo: Christopher Michel (CC BY-SA 4.0) Sam Harris is a well-known American writer and broadcaster and one of the so-called “New Atheists” – a loose...
Dark side of meditation

Dark side of meditation

Willoughby Britton, whose research revealed some of meditation’s risks. Full article and photo: Brown Alumni Magazine. Meditation apps promise they will help users achieve a calm state of mind. But a psychologist who has practiced, taught and studied it says...