- Puran Bair
Puran Khan Bair is a
meditation teacher, mystic, and author of "Living from the Heart" and co-author (withSusanna Bair ) of "Energize Your Heart in 4 Dimensions". He was born in Greensburg, PA, in 1944. Bair holds an MS degree inComputer Science from theUniversity of Pennsylvania . His professional career has focused on computer science research, environmental energy, financial services, and teaching meditation. He was involved in two ultimately unsuccessful start-up firms, one in windpower (in which he holds apatent ), and a second venture which worked on high-speed composting (in which he has a patent pending).Bair studied meditation with
Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, son and successor of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Vilayat certified Puran Bair as a master teacher, ormurshid .Puran Bair was active in the Sufi Order International, helping to establish a number of spiritual communities, including the Abode of the Message, in New Lebanon, NY, as well as communities in Philadelphia, PA, and Boston, MA.
In 1988, he was asked by Pir Vilayat to start a new organization which would teach meditation to business professionals. In response Bair co-founded the
Institute for Applied Meditation , with his wife Susanna Bair (the two wed in 1991). Puran Bair has four children, all from previous marriages.In "Living from the Heart" Puran Bair introduces
Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM); the method is based on meditation techniques gleaned from Sufi, Hebrew, and Christian sources.Puran Bair has worked with Dr. Herbert Benson and other researchers to document the physiological changes that occur during the different stages of meditation, including metabolism, heart rhythm, brain waves, light emission and electromagnetism.
Bibliography
* "Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation for Energy, Clarity, Peace, Joy and Inner Power", 1998, Three Rivers Press
* "Energize Your Heart in 4 Dimensions" (co-author, with Susanna Bair), 2007, Living Heart MediaExternal links
* [http://www.appliedmeditation.org/ The Institute for Applied Meditation]
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