First I discuss aims and methods of spiritual disciplines from all times and ages. Difficulties that people experience in maintaining spiritual disciplines are described. Modern brain research sheds light on the question as to why this is so. The new psychotherapy of the Dutch psychologist Bosch is presented, which takes into account new insights of modern brain research and which bears striking similarities with universal spiritual disciplines. Some similarities are presented and implications of the findings are discussed.
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