Meditation and Psychotherapy was first published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry during the fall of 1989.

The references are dated - and the article is written in a heavy, academic style. But I reproduce it here because each word rings as true to me today as it did fifteen years ago. I cannot say that about much else that I have written.

Meditation means many things - It means turning inward - it means quiet observation, reflection and awareness of ourselves - it means to be conscious of awareness, to become a detached observer of the stream of changing thoughts, feelings, drives and visions - until we recognize their nature and their origin.

Lama Govinda, 1976

The ways of personal change are anticipated as routine topics on the pages of SupportNet.ca. The ideas germinated in this article - will soon be found in educational resources planned for the Health and Healing section of SupportNet as well as topics within the Recovery Learning Series.