Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine PDF
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i Mind Cure ii iii Mind Cure How Meditation Became Medicine WAKOH SHANNON HICKEY 1 iv 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hickey, Wakoh Shannon, 1963- author. Title: Mind cure : how meditation became medicine / Wakoh Shannon Hickey. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018040395 (print) | LCCN 2018055644 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190864255 (updf) | ISBN 9780190864262 (epub) | ISBN 9780190864248 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780190864279 (online content) Subjects: LCSH: Medicine and psychology. Classification: LCC R726.5 (ebook) | LCC R726.5 .H53 2019 (print) | DDC 610.1/9—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018040395 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v For my parents and teachers vi We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. — Śakyamuni Buddha, The Dhammapada 1:1, trans. Thomas Byrom ☸ Often we are seriously oblivious of the ground we stand upon, the houses we live in, the lenses we see through, all gifted to us, mostly anonymously, by others. — Jon Kabat- Zinn, Coming to Our Senses ☸ Medicine and sickness heal each other. All the earth is medicine. Where do you find yourself? — Zen Master Yunmen vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Mysticism, Mesmerism, Mind Cure 18 2. Individualist and Community- Oriented Mind Cure 37 3. Mind Cure and Meditation at Greenacre and Beyond 63 4. Mind Cure Medicalized: The Emmanuel Movement and Its Heirs 100 5. Is Mindfulness Religion? 137 6. Is Mindfulness Effective? 171 7. From Mind Cure to Mindfulness: What Got Lost 187 Appendix: Notes on Methods and Theory 219 Notes 227 Bibliography 271 Index 299 viii ix Acknowledgments FIRST THANKS BELONG to librarians! Without their expertise and gen- erous help over two decades of research and writing, this book could not have been produced. I am grateful to have been the beneficiary of dedicated and skillful staff at Duke University’s Divinity School Library, Perkins and Bostock Libraries, and Medical Center Library; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries; the Graduate Theological Union Library; the Swedenborgian Library and Archives at Pacific School of Religion; the University of California Library system, particularly the Doe Library at Berkeley; the Styberg Library of Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary; the Newberry Library; the Unity Village library; the Henry Steel Olcott Memorial Library of the Theosophical Society in America; the Mary Baker Eddy Library; the New York Public Library; Alfred University’s Herrick Memorial Library; the Library of Congress; the Loyola- Notre Dame Library; and the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. (Additional thanks to Kathryn Schnurr and Barb Helmuth, who provided access to the Sheridan Libraries.) Particular thanks to Michael Yockey at the Swedenborgian Library and Archives and to Nick Triggs, former Interlibrary Loan wizard extraordinaire for the Loyola–N otre Dame Library, whose help was indispensable. Thanks also to the taxpayers and donors who support all these institutions. Thanks to my former professors Richard Jaffe, Laurie Maffly-K ipp, Leela Prasad, Julie Byrne, and Tom Tweed, all of whom gave helpful guid- ance and salutary critiques on the early drafts of the dissertation that be- came the foundation for this book. Special thanks to Alison Stokes, whose book Ministry after Freud enabled me to connect crucial dots in chapters 4 and 5, and to Anne Gordon Perry, who shared her research on Sarah Farmer. Deep gratitude to the late Joan Hildebrant, from whom I learned much of what I know about writing.
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