Mindful Biology blends biological insight and spiritual wisdom to awaken soulful radiance, spacious embodiment, and earthly roots.
Background…
Our ailing civilization keeps us stressed and distracted, cut off from what truly matters.
Mindful Biology grew from my own struggle with this dilemma. As a physician, I knew biology could help—at times via therapeutics and always by deepening my understanding. Yet it wasn’t enough by itself, so I sought guidance in a variety of spiritual traditions.
Buddhism and Quakerism aligned best with my values, philosophy, and Life science background.
Buddhism teaches us to see things “as they actually are” free of assumptions, projections, etc. Biology supports such realism with truths about our bodies and the natural world. Buddhism also values direct experience over mere concepts, while knowledge of basic biology helps us open to present-moment, embodied experience.
Quakers sense a divine Light within each person, and many sense the same in nature. Biology bolsters this sensibility, inspiring reverence for all forms of Life, from cells to ecosystems. Quaker faith also opposes every sort of inequity, violence, and exploitation, while biology highlights Life’s deep commonality and the perils of overburdening our earth.
As Life science and spirituality grew together in my understanding and practice, Mindful Biology was born. As it continues to evolve, may it awaken our soulful radiance, spacious embodiment, and earthly roots.
