Healthy Mind : Mindfulness, True Self, and the Stream of Consciousness

In The Healthy Mind, Dr. Henry M. Vyner presents the findings of twenty-seven years of research spent interviewing Tibetan lamas about their experiences of the mind. The interviews have generated a science of stream of consciousness that demonstrates that the healthy human mind is the egoless mind, given the paradox that the egoless mind has an ego. Vyner presents this science and also shows his readers how to cultivate a healthy mind. The Healthy Mind features extensive interview excerpts, theoretical maps of the egoless and egocentric mind, discussions of the history of science, and thought experiments that unpack the implications of his findings. This is a useful book for all those interested in the dialogue between Buddhism and psychology and in understanding the nature of the healthy mind.

Henry M. Vyner, M.D., M.A. is an adjunct professor at the Center for Nepali and Asian Studies at Tribhuvan University―the national university of Nepal. He is a physician and cultural anthropologist, and has spent the last twenty-seven years doing a body of research on the nature of the healthy mind amongst Tibetan lamas living in south and central Asia. While in Nepal, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and held a prior position as a research fellow at Tribhuvan University. Prior to his work in Asia, he served as Director of Research at the Radiation Research Institute in Berkeley, California.