Father Thomas Keating OCSO, is the founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and Contemplative Outreach and former chair of the Monastic Inter-religious Dialogue. He is known as one of the world's most revered teachers of the contemplative dimensions of Christianity. He was Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery of Snowmass, and the Abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey.
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John Dunne, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University, where he is Co-Director of the Encyclopedia of Contemplative Practices and the Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies. He was educated at the Amherst College and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion in 1999.
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Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., is currently the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Laboratory of Affective Science Neuroscience and the Waisman Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconson at Madison. Recognized as a pioneer in the exciting frontier of mind-body medicine, his recent work that focuses on neuroplasticity, the capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life, has garnered worldwide interest.
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