Financial Times
Oct 10, 2023 - 6 min
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Your meditation may not be as nourishing for the soul as you first thought. Studies have shown that the self-obsessed nature of the 21st century has turned practices that are supposed to quieten the ego into opportunities to bolster feelings of superiority. Scott Barry Kaufman examines the issues with Westernised spiritual practices and provides ways to make them meaningful again.