science of the mind

As Spirit Rock Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield has concluded, confirming Bielefeldt's fears, "Buddhism is not a religion. It is a science of the mind."

“As the American Psychological Association has revised its high school psychology curriculum standards to focus on diversity and emphasizing that psychology is a science, I am encouraged to learn that more teenagers will have access to important information about the science of the mind,” Mrs. Knight said.

Via The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest: All of these things combine to change the way they score on clinical mood disorder scales, often tipping perfectly normal people over the edge into the clinically relevant zone, so that, if tested on that particular day, they could be classified as depressed or even as psychopaths.

The more I read and thought about things, the more convinced I became that we need a new model, grounded in the science of the mind, for our legal system to be truly just.

Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.