Sublime

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

The parts of the brain that were first to get their full share of myelination and to fully mature are the last to deteriorate. Those that developed last, on the other hand, are the first to go.