Daniel Goleman – best selling book author about science & meditation

Last Updated on May 15, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

• grew up in a Jewish household in Stockton, California
• the son of Fay Goleman (née Weinberg; 1910–2010), professor of sociology at the University of the Pacific,[2]
• and Irving Goleman (1898–1961), humanities professor at Stockton College (now San Joaquin Delta College).
• Goleman studied in India using a pre-doctoral fellowship from Harvard and a post-doctoral grant from the Social Science Research Council.[4]
• While in India, he spent time with spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba,[5] who was also the guru to Ram Dass, Krishna Das, and Larry Brilliant.
• He wrote his first book based on travel in India and Sri Lanka.
• Emotional intelligence
• Goleman gained widespread recognition for his contributions to the field of emotional intelligence, a notion that includes the abilities of self-awareness, managing one’s own emotions, empathy, and social skills – essentially, how effectively we manage our emotions and understand the emotions of others
• book Emotional Intelligence
• His book Emotional Intelligence has been translated into 40 languages globally and was celebrated by TIME magazine as one of the top 25 most pivotal books in the realm of business management.[14]
• his first book, The Varieties of Meditative Experience (1977)
• (republished in 1988 as The Meditative Mind)
• Goleman describes almost a dozen different meditation systems.
• He wrote that “the need for the meditator to retrain his attention, whether through concentration or mindfulness, is the single invariant ingredient in the recipe for altering consciousness of every meditation system”.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goleman

• Goleman is one of the scientists involved in the Mind and Life Institute conferences.
• Mind & Life Institute (Mind and Life Institute)
• The Mind & Life Institute is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to establish the field of contemplative sciences.
• the institute “brings science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world.”
• Founders:
• 14th Dalai Lama
• Francisco Varela, R.
• Adam Engle
• In 1990 he was scientific director of Mind and Life III, which focused on the relationship between emotions and health.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goleman

He is co-author of Altered Traits with Richard R. Davidson

• bestselling book about research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.