by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 17 October 2 (Thursday) The day of our departure was a holiday. The birthday of Mahatma Ghandi was being celebrated. This was also the day on which the Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Price was to be commemorated at the monastery, the culmination of the five-day celebration. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”19″ gal_title=”Day 17″]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 16 October 1 (Wednesday) This day marked the beginning of the 2nd International Conference on Body, Mind, and Life. Experts had been drawn together from all of the schools of medical practice that bore a kinship or compatibility with Tibetan Medicine. Since neither Kara nor I were involved in the […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 15 September 30 (Tuesday) Barbara and Virginia decided to rise early and join the festivities at the monastery. Chanting was interspersed with spoken text; many participated by way of circumambulation. Some of us preferred sleep. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”17″ gal_title=”Day 15″] This was the third day of training actual patients. The second […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 14 September 29 (Monday) In the early morning hours we were awakened by the sound of chanting wafting up from the monastery. This was the second of five days of festivities leading up to the 25th anniversary celebration on the 2nd of October. Soon it came time to head off […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 13 September 28 (Sunday) I received an e-mail from the office of the Dalai Lama telling me that our request to meet with him, which had been mediated by Minh Chau, could not be accommodated. This was no surprise at all. There are so many demands on his time, and […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD I n a recent newsletter, we lamented the fact that the field of education is not much engaged with what the neurosciences could afford us in the realm of attention, learning, and child behavior. Hence the preconditions are not even in place for the recognition of the role that neurofeedback could […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 12 September 27 (Saturday) This was our day off from the training, and was to be dedicated solely to sight-seeing. The caravan of cars took us all the way down the mountain into the main town of Dharamsala to visit Norbulingka Institute, named after the traditional summer residence of the […]

by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Day 11 September 26 (Friday) This was the third day of the Dalai Lama’s teaching. After finishing with Chapter 9, the Dalai Lama switched into the English language to touch on a number of his current themes. Now, finally, we were able to listen to him directly, and on matters that […]