What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation? | Psyche Ideas
Shayla Lovepsyche.co
What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation? | Psyche Ideas
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Recent research discovered a startling facet of life—brief periods during which consciousness is absent while the body carries on its well-rehearsed duties: driving, doing the dishes, or reading a long and uninspiring office memo. To an observer, everything looks normal while the subject is, in fact, zoned out. During these episodes of mind blankin
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
through meditation one can cultivate an inactive state of mind where one is not cognizant of anything.
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self
Matthew D. Sacchetscientificamerican.com
Jhanas are a technique for invoking altered states of consciousness through sustained concentration, which can then relax our brains to perceive the world more clearly — it could really be that simple.
Manufacturing Bliss
However, just the ability to meditate—to rest as consciousness for a few moments prior to the arising of the next thought—can offer a profound relief from mental suffering. We need not come to the end of the path to experience the benefits of walking it.
Sam Harris • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
In meditation, you are supposed to closely observe your mind and body, witness the ceaseless arising and passing of all your feelings, and realise how pointless it is to pursue them. When the pursuit stops, the mind becomes very relaxed, clear and satisfied.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
effort made by the meditator to understand right nature of psycho-physical phenomena taking place in his/her own body (Sayadaw, n.d: 138). The insight meditation appears to be a kind of detector of one’s nature that “shows us who and what we are, and what we can become.