To my knowledge, the first-ever psychological study of what I call "wakefulness"—a higher-functioning expansive state of being—was conducted by Canadian psychiatrist Richard M. Bucke and published as ...

In his short, zesty new book The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, Rice University's Jeffrey J. Kripal calls for a revolution in academic culture, and with it, in the general ...

Today, millions of Americans say they practice some form of yoga and/or meditation. It’s become a health fad. Yet the goal of these practices seems unknown or elusive to many practitioners — ...