Nirbhay N. Singh: an Appreciation

Nirbhay Singh was a wise and singularly salubrious choice to be founding Editor-in-Chief of this journal. And 2010 was probably the perfect time for it to launch. Nirb, as everyone calls him, was already a well-established and highly productive researcher, clinician, and long-time practitioner. From the start, he met the challenge of articulating and implementing an inclusive vision large enough and rigorous enough for both catalyzing and curating a new field as it was emerging into the world of science and medicine. His leadership certainly helped frame and bring into focus the potential validity of meditation as a serious domain of scientific inquiry and diverse application. He recruited a large and remarkably diverse and international group of associate editors and advisors to pull it off. While it is fair, I think, to say that the field is either still in its infancy or in early adolescence at this point, there is little question that its validity and future potential has been established. …