Tony Evans, a journalist with the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper has written a powerful opinion on spiritual practices and "finding treatments for modern maladies, including mental illness, within age-old spiritual practices like meditation and prayer". It is packed with information that is worthy of reading and archiving for one's own meditation practices.
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005136468
"After reading Alan Watts' "Psychotherapy East and West," I came to believe that spiritual beliefs and practices could return us to sanity by helping us come to terms with what it means to be human".
There was much talk about the "primate brain" of humans—how we tend to hold grudges, seek vengeance and lash out at others when we are in pain."
In 1980 there was a book written by Dr. Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" that discusses the "primate brain" of humans. It is a deep and compelling study of how mankind thought then and now through evolution of the human brain.
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