I’ve been a student of meditative techniques and contemplative traditions for a while. I have a decades-long personal practice and academic degrees in both religious studies and psychology. And I have mixed feelings about the kind of attention mindfulness is currently receiving and the ways it’s often conceptualized today in the West. On one hand, the fact meditative practices and contemplative experiences are getting increased study I feel is deeply beneficial and long overdue. On another, with only slight exaggeration, I’m worried many of today’s biomedical and psychological researchers think they know what they’re doing. Read the full article by David L. Collins here.