Useful practices for transitioning from the 1st to the 2nd tier of human development.
26:43 min
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The bestselling author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind.
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For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.
The line between psychology and spirituality has blurred, as clinicians, their patients, and religious seekers explore new perspectives on the self.