5 Meditation Methods

Though newly popular, meditation is thousands of years old; it's a key practice in many spiritual and religious traditions as well as being physically and mentally enriching. Is one of these paths right for you?


Deep in the wilds of Maine, Cynthia Bourgeault's cellphone rings.

That someone is calling the sought-after meditation instructor isn't really surprising. That a consecrated Episcopal hermit even has a cellphone is.

But then again, the 60-year-old anchorite, who lives alone in a four-room hermitage with no running water and just five utensils, but enough solar power to run her computer, also represents the thoroughly modern face of the ancient practice of meditation.

Contemporary meditation is about "creating a new kind of consciousness that the planet can survive on," says Bourgeault, who cofounded the Contemplative Society in Victoria in 1997. (More)

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