Category: Sacred healing

We live in the age of meditation’s triumph. Mindfulness apps boast millions of subscribers. Corporate wellness programs offer lunchtime meditation sessions. Therapists prescribe contemplative practice alongside—or instead of—medication. The narrative is nearly universal: meditation heals, calms, clarifies. It is the antidote to our fractured, anxious age. But what happens when the cure creates its own…

The news came quietly, as these things often do—Jane Goodall died this week at ninety-one, her long life devoted to a practice so simple it sounds almost absurd to our modern ears: she sat still and watched. For decades, she observed chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania, not rushing to conclusions, not imposing human frameworks…