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A Skeptic Meditates

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Scott Barry Kaufman meditates — rebelliously — for eight weeks, and learns a lot about himself, mindfulness, anxiety, and creativity…

(One of his provocative conclusions: “Mindfulness is not the opposite of mind-wandering…”)


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