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19-03-2021 | ORTHOGONAL ROTATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS

The Liberative Potential of Mindfulness

Auteur: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 6/2021

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This is in all likelihood my final contribution under the byline Orthogonal Rotation in Consciousness. The serializing of Coming to Our Senses (Kabat-Zinn 2005) in Mindfulness has gone on uninterrupted since 2012. During this time, mindfulness has entered the mainstream in ways that could have hardly been predicted yet were very much presaged as well as furthered by the launch of this eponymous journal in 2010. During this time, the world has changed in ways that have been in general alignment with the vector trajectory pointed to in the original book. Below is the Foreword to the last volume in the Coming to Our Senses series, Mindfulness for All (Kabat-Zinn 2019), modified slightly for this publication. May we, as a species, find as many ways as possible to wake up and come to our senses for the sake of humanity and for the sake the world. …

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Titel: The Liberative Potential of Mindfulness
Auteur: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publicatiedatum: 19-03-2021
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness / Uitgave 6/2021
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01608-6

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