New visions of meditation – The Meditation Weblog

This webinar on October 2 will present information in regards to the background of Acem and talk about among the most necessary points in Acem’s historical past from the beginnings in 1966 till as we speak.

When Acem was based as a scholar group in Norway in 1966, the meditating college students had been curious in regards to the long-term results of meditation. They quickly clashed with the Indian chief of the TM motion, whose descriptions they discovered to be out of contact with actuality. They set about to construct a brand new understanding of the meditative course of primarily based on precise expertise and consistent with trendy psychology.

Whereas reorienting themselves, additionally they regarded for inspiration in European contemplative traditions related to the Catholic Church. In Protestant Scandinavia, nevertheless, some teams insisted that meditation was incompatible with the Christian religion. Acem denied this and continued to show meditation to folks of all faiths and of none. This variety elevated manifold as Acem unfold far past its Nordic roots and have become accessible to folks from extensively totally different cultures, together with the presumed Asian homelands of meditation.

By constructing on in depth expertise, Acem was in a position to pinpoint how meditation prompts deep-seated psychological processes. In distinction to the emphasis on silence in lots of traditions, Acem discovered it useful to encourage meditators to debate their meditation in private steering and steering teams. On the identical time, programs primarily based on group communication had been developed as instruments to stimulate self-insight and empathy. Beginning within the Nineties, Acem started to rearrange deepening retreats with longer meditations for these within the profound psychological and existential processes that meditative follow units in movement.

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