Why Meditate?

Karin Lisa Atkinson


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Lisa has been teaching meditation and self-augmentation of extrasensory abilities since the 1980s. She learned First Nations meditations growing up in Canada from Elders, who also taught the traditional knowledge of food medicine, plant medicine, and planet medicine. In the 1980’s, her first India meditation teacher was Dr. Deepak Chopra in Los Angeles. In 1989, Lisa left North America traveling around the world writing about the impact of new technology on global culture, as well as studying traditional medicine healing, medical mantras and medical meditations held dear as wisdom teachings in many of our world’s cultures.  More on Lisa
Transcript of my conversation:
Hello, I’m with Lisa Atkinson meditation teacher and all those things that we just talked about. It just seemed like it. Just please tell me your relationship with meditation Beyond being a meditation teacher because first of all before we get into my first question just so that we have a basis.
I have been meditating since I was a child. I was born in northeastern Canada. Where culturally with First Nations people the indigenous people of Canada between the northern lights above us the Aurora Borealis constantly dancing beautiful colors of overhead and us having mythology and creation stories about our environment that we are in people naturally were internal.
And we naturally walked in the woods quietly observing and witnessing life around us Gathering medicine watching the change of seasons anticipating what we need to know for our Gardens that for us was meditation. We had practical meditations as well as far as sitting still meditations and visualization many meditations.
That was my natural introduction to meditation great. Great well with that and. And then you’ve also had a varied career in visual effects and in startups and right now working with what is the collaborative you’re working with is the name of that. We just finished a one-month experiment. It’s the first of its kind of the planet called the transformative technology.
Academy who put it on at Sofia University in Palo Alto and it was a cohort a community of like-minded people who are brought together from 60 over 65 countries to talk about artificial intelligence Ai and injecting mindfulness into technology. Because every technology has the next generation of its kind of course and so why not have in the Next Generation roll out of that technology the embedding of mindfulness or Consciousness?
Like why are we creating this does this make the world a better place? This makes people’s lives clear happier kind. Peaceful and so since we are all of us co-creating together the future and as a legacy leaving behind something for the Next Generation the next seven generations as a footprint.
It’s a great time on the planet to embed every technology that we birth incubate and seed with funding as something that is actually peaceful at the core. Promotes peace of the core and promotes mindfulness and Consciousness in people’s daily lives great. Great. I will add the link if that’s okay with you.
I will add the link to the website when we put this up. Yeah sure that people can find it. Yeah, see what I was just a member of the court. I was honored to be in you know invited into the cohort. You just sound like it was interesting when I looked at the website. It was interesting. Focus it was interesting what they were trying to do and what they’re continuing to try to do it is an interesting way to look at the thing.
Well, they’re looking at the data. It’s quite interesting for me because.  You know working with all these academics who are either studying mindfulness or psychology or somatic Psychiatry or therapy or Consciousness or brain and Consciousness studies? A lot of these people are looking at how to use...
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