Spiritual Meditation App: the Insight Timer

It was bound to happen. Technology has taken on the meditators and designed an app specially for them. It's not only a timer with Tibetan bell sounds for the beginning and end of the sessions but a link to other meditators worldwide who happen to be "in the Zone" at the same time as you are. Well, here is the demo for you to watch yourself. Here's what Jordan Shapiro, author of FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide to Maximum Euphoric Bliss has to say in his article in Forbes (online version).

Or, maybe the reason we meditate in the first place is to get out of a dieting and quitting mentality. To remember that everything can’t be isolated, analyzed, and measured. Perhaps we meditate in order to remind ourselves that in a world that is caught up with innovating and rebranding, the human soul does not need to be reinvented or transformed.

Sarcasm aside, Insight Timer raises questions about both spirituality and technology. Are bells, chimes, and singing bells religious artifacts, or simply tools that aid in the efficient execution of spiritual goals? Spotlight Six Software, the one person company that makes Insight Timer, clearly thinks that these are tools, and that an app that makes meditation more convenient does a service for humanity. It makes meditation easier. To read the original click here.

I can't think that my original meditation teacher, Konsho Morii at Koyasan in Japan would have liked this app. I suspect the Dalai Lama would laugh about it as he embraces modern technology. I have to admit I found the free version, downloaded it to my Android Galaxy and tried it out right away. The tones are very realistic and there are some other lower tones while you are meditating (I don't think I imagined it). I understand that it is available for iPhones, Androids, iPad and Kindle Fire. If any of you readers try it please let me know your reactions, OK?

Spiritual Meditation Comes to Columbia University

Listen to this video on HuffPost Live in the Huffington Post “Healthy Living” Section to an interview with Dr. Lisa Miller, the new director of the Spirituality and Mind-Body Institute that aims to bring a more spiritual focus to modern medicine. Also being interviewed are future students of the program, Lorne Schussel now working with meditation therapy and a former med student, Patrick Kearney working with integrative medicine and Susan Lakatos, a former Wall Street banker who wants a new career.

As a graduate of Columbia University Teachers College I couldn’t be happier to see this new program. It’s a start to better integrate the knowledge of eastern and western medicine. If you like this video please share it with your friends. You will find it on the Mystic Fare Facebook page as well: http://www.facebook.com/mysticfare

Deepak Chopra on How to Activate Creativity and Homeostasis

This is a short video by Deepak Chopra in which he introduces the term “negentropy” as being the opposite of “entropy” or moving from chaos and disorder to order, creativity and homeostasis through meditation. Please listen to what this great teacher has to say on the website, Beliefnet.com

Deepak Chopra on How to Activate Creativity and Homeostasis

 

This is part 2 of this series. The first video covers the basics of meditation and is designed for newcomers to meditation. If you found this video useful, please leave a message below or click “like”.