Now, I should note that Buddhist meditation can be described
as mind-stilling. Mind-stilling meditation may work for certain people. See
Manuela Mischke Reeds' self-help book 8 KEYS TO PRACTICING MINDFULNESS (2015).
But mind-stilling meditation is not everybody's cup of tea.
Clifford W. DeSilva's self-help book NOT A SERPENT, NOT A
ROPE (2015) may work for certain people who want to engage their imaginations
by reading and then contemplating stories.
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)