Neuroscience helps explain our growing attraction to spiritual retreats [MercuryNews.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/30/174:00 AM

As she walked along a New York City street on an October night seven years ago, Katie Kozlowski was so upset that her boyfriend had stood her up that she didn’t even notice the taxicab before it hit her head-on and threw her across the road.

She was able, amazingly, to pick herself up from the gravel, deeply startled but completely unharmed. The accident prompted Kozlowski to reflect on her life. After suffering through a string of abusive relationships and bouts of heavy drinking and depression, she knew something had to change.

[For more of this story, written by Cindy Lamothe, go to http://www.mercurynews.com/201...-spiritual-retreats/]

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