Resources

Iain McGilchrist

  • Channel McGilchrist – The official platform of Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary  and The Matter with Things
  • Book: The Matter with Things  – Amazon listing – published in 2021. Book review from Prospect magazine.
  • Book: The Master and His Emissary – Amazon listing – originally published in 2009. Book review from British Journal of General Practice.  Summary on brain hemisphere differences (8-page pdf) by  Dr. Stéphane Treyvaud (2020).
  • YouTube video – Iain McGilchrist at CERN, May 8, 2023, 1 hour video that summarizes The Matter with Things
  • Understanding Iain McGilchrist’s Worldview – article by David McIlroy

Jill Bolte Taylor

Daniel P. Brown

  • Book: Pointing Out the Great Way by Daniel P. Brown – Amazon listing –  published in 2006 —  The stages of meditation in the Mahamudra tradition.
  • YouTube video  –  Sacred Sunday with Daniel Brown, Ph.D.  hosted by Ora Nadrich. Excellent presentation on Buddhist Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings and practices. Recorded in 2018. The video runs for 1 hour and 44 minutes. It begins with introductions and a basic meditation. Dr. Brown then begins speaking at the 11-minute mark and continues until 1 hour-14 mins. Then follows approximately 25 minutes of Q&A audience participation.  The video concludes with a 6-minute meditation utilizing pointing out instructions. Dr. Brown died in 2022.

Donald Hoffman

Bernardo Kastrup

Neil Theise

Mustang Bon Foundation

  • Mustang Bon Foundation (Nepal) – web site
  • Book: Pith Instructions for A-Tri (A Khrid) Dzogchen –  Amazon listing – first translation published in 201?. This book “The Pith Instructions for the Stages of the Practice Sessions of the A Khrid System of Bon rDzogs Chen [Great Completion] Meditation” is available in English for the very first time. Originally written by Bru rGyal Ba G.yunG drunG (1242-1290), Geshe Sonam Gurung and Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D. faithfully translate the text from its original Tibetan under the guidance of His Holiness The Thirty-Third Menri Trizin, the head of the Bon Lineage.
  • Book: Self-Arising Three-fold Embodiment of Enlightenment [of Bon Dzogchen Meditation] – Amazon listing  — first translation published in 2019.  This is the second in Shar rDza Rinpoche’s trilogy on Bon Great Completion meditation. It is a collection of eleven very advanced mostly by-passing Great Completion practices representing the best intensive practices from the cave and hermitage yogi tradition.

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