Ken Bradford: What Is Basic Sanity?
Psychology has a lot to say about insanity, having compiled a vast compendium of 'mental disorders' (in the DSM). But it has less to say about sanity in general, and barely recognizes the potentiality of basic, unconditioned sanity in particular. This and a follow-up talk on November 6 will explore 2 kinds of sanity. One is the usual, everyday sort conditional to the society we find ourself in. A person may be considered crazy or insane if they do not accord to the range of normality of consensus reality. Adapting to a social reality opens the way for us to survive and thrive. But that may also mean we are conforming to a sick society, participating in that sickness. There is another kind of sanity, more basic, far-reaching and unconditioned. Psychology does not well understand this sanity, called bodhi: the open-ended, unconditional, inherently liberating intelligence the Buddha discovered.

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Bio- Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net

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