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In 1955, Satya Narayan Goenka, a successful Burmese industrialist, began experiencing intense migraine headaches. Conventional medicine didn’t provide relief, so, at the suggestion of a friend, he sought out a meditation teacher.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (CNS) — A Dartmouth College cosmologist and theoretical physicist, who considers himself a religious agnostic even though he has devoted his career to examining the links between science, philosophy and spirituality in exploring the mystery of creation, is the 2019 Templeton Prize winner.

Ralph Metzner, a psychotherapist who began his career working with Timothy Leary on controversial studies at Harvard involving LSD and other drugs, then spent a lifetime exploring and writing about expanded consciousness in all sorts of cultures and settings, died on March 14 at his home in Sonoma, Calif.

For one patient, a decade of recovery took determination, persistence and the courage to weather repeated setbacks.

From Council Rock to Congress: Philly-born Ro Khanna is saving U.S. foreign policy from itself

Religion is religion only when it unites Friends. Leaders of the human spiritual world. Leaders of the human religious world.

Supplements Won’t Prevent Dementia. But These Steps Might.

A 20-minute meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn to allow you to tap into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware. There is no question that mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom are more important than ever before—even though the essence of mindfulness is and has always been timeless, having to do with our relationship to this moment and to any moment as it is, however it is.

My client knew she was dying. She helped me figure how to live.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Among Philly kids, trauma and poverty are linked to mental illness, learning problems and more, Penn study finds

The fate of a self-made millionaire’s dream of creating an academic hub, or ashram, in Voorhees for scholars and scientists to study solutions to religious conflict was being debated late Thursday before the township’s zoning board.

When she was in third grade, Quinn Donover painted a nutty-looking orange cat with yellow eyes and purple-splotched fur, set against a multicolored backdrop of swirls and streaks so frenetic they seem to jiggle on the canvas.

What to eat to save the planet: Report urges 'radical changes' to world's diet -- less meat, more veggies

The spillover effect can jeopardize relationships—here’s what you can do if hard times on the job change how you behave during off-hours

What can we eat to protect our brains? Dr.Martha Clare Morris, the nation’s foremost expert on nutrition and brain health, outlines her recommendations in her latest book, Diet for the MIND: The Latest Science on What to Eat to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Decline. In this exclusive excerpt, she describes how berries can provide protection from cognitive decline.

[NEW YORK] Dr. Deepak Chopra, the alternative medicine and New Age megastar, spends his Sundays meditating, walking and contemplating life. "Sunday is a day of reset

Sure, it’s become a wellness fad. But it’s the best way I’ve found to keep digital monsters at bay.