This week on TJC's Up Close, the life of the mind: how our reactions to stimuli are both within and beyond our control, in surprising ways. ABC News anchor Dan Harris, author of "10% Happier," explains how meditation helped him get off drugs and become a more focused, happier, and nicer person; Tel Aviv University's Thalma Lobel shares her research on how physical sensations subconsciously influence our conscious thoughts in "Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence"; Christianity Today's Philip Yancey discusses why bad things happen to good people in "The Question That Never Goes Away."

Finally, Christianity Today Editor-at-Large Philip Yancey has become a go-to guy on why bad things happen to good people. His new book is The Question That Never Goes Away, and that question is, "Why?"