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Since a young age, Richard J. Davidson was interested in the brain and the way it affects all aspects of human existence. But the Brooklyn, New York, native didn’t think about meditation’s potential ...

On a recent rainy Tuesday evening, a small group of students gathered at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center in Columbia. Filing into Meeting Room 213, they quietly took their seats in rows facing a ...

On Halloween, turnout at the Advaita Meditation Center in Waltham was lower than usual, but still, nearly 30 people filled the rooms of the old Victorian mansion. They attended a variety of classes, ...