Podcast appearances and mentions of arthur zajonc

Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have rippled across society in all directions for the past 35 years. But, more than that, she's a fierce champion of diversity and equality, in math and science, in women's rights, in opportunity. To sit with Ingrid, her math and her life, is to illuminate our world and inspire us to imagine other worlds. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Depression (05:30)Krista Tippett On Being Podcast (07:15)Arthur Zajonc (10:10)Exponential thinking (14:20)Applied mathematics (19:00)Daubechies wavelet (20:00)The life of a researcher (25:00)Collaboration (27:00)Bell Labs (29:00)What is changing in the field of mathematics (32:00)Creating a community (34:00)Teaching: helping a person grow into the fullness of their imagination (36:00)Mathemalchemy (39:00)The Bridges Organization (40:00)Time to Break Free by Dominique Ehrmann (41:00)Mathemalchemy comic book (45:30)Bridging ties (47:00)Experiences at Burning Man (47:20)Pico Iyer (50:30)Museum of Mathematics (51:00)Flatiron Institute (51:30)Lighting Round (54:00)Book: The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin; Digger by Ursula VernonPassion: Social justiceHeart sing: TemariScrewed up: Aspects of parentingFind Ingrid online:https://ece.duke.edu/faculty/ingrid-daubechiesThe Godmother of the Digital Image New York Times'Five-Cut Fridays' five-song music playlist series  Ingrid's playlistLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media

‘n Nuwe Preekreeks | En daar was lig… Om te kan sien behels meer as die blote fisiologiese vermoë om dit te doen. Die fisikus, Arthur Zajonc, bevestig dit wanneer hy skryf: “Two lights brighten our world. One is provided ... Lees Meer

So often we think of our inner life as somehow separate to our outer life. Parker J. Palmer joins the podcast, talking about the importance of the integration between our inner and outer worlds and the expression of non-violent living that grows from this hidden wholeness. The lack of a nurtured inner life, he contends, leads us to violence, individualism and disconnection, and Parker brings eight decades of life experience to the question of what we do with our suffering and how we can find our way back to one another and our truest selves. Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal and the author of ten books: Healing the Heart of Democracy, The Heart of Higher Education (with Arthur Zajonc), The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Active Life, To Know As We Are Known, The Company of Strangers, The Promise of Paradox, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ett samtal om meditation Cecilie Raeder om meditation. I avsnittet Nämns boktitlar som: En liten bok om meditation av Patrizia Collard & När vetskap blir till kärlek - Meditation som kunskapsmetod Arthur Zajonc

I am thrilled to introduce you to today’s guest, Dr. Parker J. Palmer, a prolific author of ten books and thought leader. This conversation felt perfectly timed for me personally, and I can’t wait for you to listen to it too. Parker has such a grounded and clear way of articulating profound ideas and human experiences. One such idea he has coined is what he calls the tragic gap. This is the tension between reality and possibility. He explains how he came to terms with this truth many years ago as a student and was feeling discouragement and despair during the civil rights movement in the 60s. Coming to terms with reality but also being aware of the possibilities if only the world didn’t push back. He describes it as a kind of a death, the death of a dream. So many of us are navigating these tragic gaps in our personal lives and the world at large.  He describes who he calls culture heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela and how they found ways to keep showing up without letting the needs of the world or the tragic gap overwhelm them. Parker suggests that it’s a fact that we are constantly caught between the harsh realities of the world, but it is possible to reframe our lives and the way we experience this gap that can make it more liveable. One of those ways is by coming back closer to ourselves and seeing what our individual role to play in the bigger picture can be. He suggests asking these questions, which I will now be asking myself regularly, Am I being faithful to my gifts? To the needs I see around me and to the places my gifts might intersect those needs? In asking yourself these questions, this helps you stay the course and not get overwhelmed by all of it. We all have a role to play and if we can remain faithful to our gifts, we will keep moving forward.   “Am I being faithful to my gifts? To the needs I see around me and to the places my gifts might intersect those needs?”  ~ Dr. Parker J. Palmer   I asked Parker about how he knows when to quit something because over time, sticking to something becomes more stubborn than resilient if it’s just not working. His answer was perfect. He suggests asking yourself, is this thing I’m doing still life-giving or is it death-dealing? We also talk about what he thinks happens when we die and how he has been intrigued since a very young age about death and where we go. He shares that he has been walking with mystery and questions his whole life, dancing with them even. Toward the end of our conversation Parker shared very candidly about his personal experience of clinical depression, when he decided it was time to write about those experiences and what being able to speak about that has meant to him instead of hiding that part of himself.  The way he describes those moments in his life with such honesty and compassion, both for himself and others experiencing it is something that I hope everyone will listen to. I truly believe that’s how we will save lives. This is one of those conversations that will stay with me for my lifetime. I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinastars on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook.  More About Dr. Parker J. Palmer Dr. Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal, which offers long-term retreat programs for people in the serving professions, including teachers, administrators, physicians, philanthropists, non-profit leaders and clergy. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as thirteen honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press. Palmer is the author of ten books—including several award-winning titles—that have sold two million copies and been translated into ten languages: Healing the Heart of Democracy, The Heart of Higher Education (with Arthur Zajonc), The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Active Life, To Know As We Are Known, The Company of Strangers, The Promise of Paradox, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old. You can connect with Parker via this website. Things We Mention In This Episode Book: On the Brink of Everything; Grace, Gravity, and Getting Older, by Parker J. Palmer Book: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, by Parker J. Palmer Book: Let Your Life Speak, by Parker J. Palmer Book: I Don’t Want to Talk About It, by Terrence Real Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter Apple podcast reviews and ratings are really important to help get the podcast in front of more people to uplift and inspire them too, which is the ultimate goal. Thank you!

Liberman asserts, “Anything that catches your eye is actually looking for you.” He speaks about living in a choiceless way and following what attracts your eye. He says, “Life provides a way for us to continually experience meeting things, responding to things, completing things and in the process we gain an authentic security in our ability to meet everything.”Tags: Jacob Liberman, belief, truth, Arthur Zajonc, perception, energy, physics, David Bohm, frozen light, insight, precognition, intuition, meditation, breath, Science, Spirituality, Meditation

Liberman asserts, “Anything that catches your eye is actually looking for you.” He speaks about living in a choiceless way and following what attracts your eye. He says, “Life provides a way for us to continually experience meeting things, responding to things, completing things and in the process we gain an authentic security in our ability to meet everything.”Tags: Jacob Liberman, belief, truth, Arthur Zajonc, perception, energy, physics, David Bohm, frozen light, insight, precognition, intuition, meditation, breath, Science, Spirituality, Meditation

Through relaxation you can break the vicious circle of pain and stress. This podcast takes you through some easy to learn methods of relaxation, helping it to become part of your daily life and improving your wellbeing. It also lists the benefits of meditation and looks at the supporting scientific evidence, examining why relaxation should be an integral component in your recovery.   Relaxation Relaxation is an integral component of cognitive behavioral treatment programs for chronic pain.1 Taking care of stress and anxiety as a chronic pain patient is crucial for your recovery.   Meditation   Meditation is also a great way to built relaxation into your daily life. There are many different ways of practicing meditation and you have to find what works best for you.   Many people enrich their lives through practicing meditation. When you read interviews with successful CEO´s, entrepreneurs or celebrities who have incorporated meditation routines in their lives it is astonishing to see the huge benefits they experience.   Personal benefits of people who meditate regularly: more happiness having more energy having more creativity living more efficiently a better understanding of ones own emotions more sensitivity to the feelings and emotions of others more control over ones own emotions less pressured by your experiences less stressed feeling more relaxed more calming thoughts control over your sensory filtering improved memory and executive function increased ability to concentrate increased emotional intelligence   Thinking about relaxation, mindfulness and awareness during our recovery can’t be done without looking at some important evidence and thoughts about meditational practices: Mindfulness meditation programs improve anxiety, depression and pain over the course of 2–6 months. The effects are comparable with those you can expect after taking antidepressants for the same period of time, but without the associated toxicities.2 47 placebo-controlled trials all found small to moderate improvements in pain, anxiety and depression. What is really great about this review (Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being from 2013) is that it demonstrates that the meditation group attained better results compared to the control group undertaking an equally intense treatment regarding focus and time, such as lectures, talks and art therapy sessions. If we consider this evidence, then it seems a good reason to check out mindfulness for yourself and see if meditation could be something for you to try.     A definition of mindfulness Mindfulness has been described as a “non-elaborative, non-judgmental awareness” of present moment experience.3 Maybe you have heard of Zen, it´s very closely related to the mindfulness approach. In general mindfulness techniques can be divided into two styles: focused attention "Focused attention is associated with maintaining focus on a specific object, often the changing sensation or flow of the breath or an external object. When attention drifts from the object of focus to a distracting sensory, cognitive or emotional event, the practitioner is taught to acknowledge the event and to disengage from it by gently returning the attention back to the object of meditation".3 open monitoring "By contrast, open monitoring is associated with a non-directed acknowledgement of any sensory, emotional or cognitive event that arises in the mind. Zen meditation is considered to be one form of open monitoring practice. While practicing open monitoring, the practitioner experiences the current sensory or cognitive ‘event’ without evaluation, interpretation, or preference".3   Many guided meditation programs consist of a mix of those two styles. Often changing from one to the other within a meditation session. I also think that it’s really important to know that clinical research into mindfulness has been going on since the early 1980s. For me this means that there is a good scientific evidence for using meditation techniques detached from religious beliefs or dogma for health purposes.   How to start There is plenty of good content on the Internet available for free, simply search for mindful meditation. Check out some talks about meditation on TED.com and be inspired, or check out www.mindful.org Here are some great resources: Free guided meditations from UCLA: Each week has a different theme, and usually includes some introductory comments, a guided meditation, some silent practice time, and closing comments. Presented by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=107 http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22   UCSD Center for Mindfulness: Guided audio files for practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr/Pages/audio.aspx   Basic meditation with Tara Brach Free meditations that you can stream or download. https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/   Contemplative Mind in Society Guided practices from Mirabai Bush, the center’s director, Diana Winston from UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, and Arthur Zajonc, president of the Mind & Life Institute. http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/recordings   Insight Meditation Society  Selected talks, podcasts, and audio streams, including various lengths of guided meditation. http://www.dharma.org/resources/audio#guided   John Kabat Zinn on youtube: Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYLyuJZKno   Literature:  Morley S, Williams A. New Developments in the Psychological Management of Chronic Pain. CanJPsychiatry. 2015;6060(44):168-175. Goyal M, Singh S, Sibinga E, et al. Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being : a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(3):357-368. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018.Meditation. Zeidan F, Grant J., Brown CA, et al. Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: Evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain. Neurosci Lett. 2012;520(2):165-173. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.082.

A leading physicist and humanist, Arthur Zajonc is the former President of the Mind & Life Institute. He is also emeritus professor of physics at Amherst College, where he taught from 1978 to 2012, and former director of the Center for Contemplative Mind, which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in higher education, from 2009 to 2011.Arthur Zajonc delivered "Buddhist Technology: Bringing a New Consciousness to Our Technological Future" on October 18, 1997.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts. The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Arthur Zajonc is president of the Mind and Life Institute. He is emeritus professor of physics at Amherst College, where he taught from 1978 to 2012. His books include “Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love” and “The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal.” Michael McCullough is professor of psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory. He’s the author of “Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Arthur Zajonc + Michael McCullough — Mind and Morality: A Dialogue.” Find more at onbeing.org.

For several hundred years, much of scientific advance has been about exploring human beings, including their actions and choices, in terms of mechanism — our bodies, our brains, physical processes. Research psychologist Michael McCullough believes that understanding our minds as mechanistic creates moral possibility. He’s led groundbreaking studies on the evolution and cultivation of moral behaviors such as forgiveness and gratitude. Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative, who believes that the farthest frontiers of science are bringing us back to a radical reorientation towards life and the foundations for our moral life.

What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside.

What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside. This is Krista Tippett’s unabridged conversation with Arthur Zajonc. See more at onbeing.org/program/arthur-za…e-consciously/109

El científico Arthur Zajonc llenó una caja de luz, de modo que nada de la luz se reflejara en ninguna de las superficies internas. Dentro de la caja había luz, y solo luz. Ahora, si miraras adentro de la caja, ¿qué verías? ¿A qué se parece la luz, en sí misma y por sí misma?Verías pura oscuridad, la oscuridad del espacio vacío. A menos que se refleje sobre alguna cosa, o que mires directamente a la fuente de luz, la luz es invisible.Zajonc entonces tomó una varilla y la movió en la oscuridad de la caja. Solo la varilla estaba iluminada del lado por el cual entraba la luz. Era como si una luz delgada brillara únicamente sobre la varilla. Aun cuando la luz estaba en todas partes dentro de la caja, solo cuando se reflejaba sobre una superficie (la varilla) se hacía visible. De otro modo, la luz era oscuridad.La luz del sol sobre la Tierra hace que el cielo se vuelva azul, gris o rojo, dependiendo del tiempo y de la hora del día. En la luna, si miraras hacia arriba, sin importar cuánta luz del sol cae sobre ella, verías pura oscuridad, la del espacio vacío. Y eso es porque la luna no tiene atmósfera, ni aire, ni humedad, de ninguno de los gases o vapores que, al reflejar la luz del sol, le dan al cielo los colores que vemos desde la Tierra.¿Qué queremos decir? La luz, a menos que se refleje en algo, parece pura oscuridad.PREGUNTAS PARA DIALOGAR:1. ¿Qué lecciones espirituales sobre el amor podemos obtener de lo mencionado acerca de la naturaleza de la luz? Ver 1 Juan 1:5; 2:9-11; 4:8; Lucas 11:35.2. Piensa en aquello de amar a nuestros enemigos. Lucas 23:34 dice: "Y Jesús decía: Padre, perdónalos, porque no saben lo que hacen". ¿Oras tú por tus enemigos? Es difícil tener la actitud correcta hacia los que nos odian, nos maltratan o nos persiguen. Pero el orar por nuestros enemigos cambia nuestro corazón y comenzamos a verlos como personas que necesitan la gracia de Dios. Eso nos ayudará a bendecirlos cuando nos maldigan y nos odien. ¿Cómo podemos cultivar la actitud de orar por aquellos a quienes desearíamos maldecir?3. Una persona vio a alguien con un vehículo descompuesto. Se detuvo y se ofreció a ayudarlo, pero lo golpearon y lo asaltaron. Luego dijo: "Nunca más me detendré para ser un buen samaritano". ¿Cómo le responderías a esa persona?4. ¿Has conocido a alguien que parece que personifica al amor? ¿Qué hacía? ¿De qué modo manifestaba amor? ¿Cuánto sufrimiento piensas que soportó a fin de mostrar el amor que daba?Resumen:El amor proviene de Dios. Es inextinguible. Trae paz, confianza y libertad a nuestras vidas. Cuando Dios lo demuestra a través de nosotros, bendice y enriquece inmensamente otras vidas. Los cristianos amantes y amables tienen un valor enorme.