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there is a class of conscious experiences that come with a degree of lucidity uncommon in normal life. By and large, their mere existence was denied by science until the last century, and their study was consigned to the intellectual hinterlands of psychology, at the intersection of spiritualism, the paranormal, and the esoteric. But they are nothi
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and neurotheology (see Glossary).
William Bloom • The Power of Modern Spirituality
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
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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
Common to many transformative experiences is the dissolution of the self, including loss of ego and the body it is chained to.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’
Shortly after Carhart-Harris published his results in a 2012 paper in PNAS (“Neural Correlates of the Psychedelic State as Determined by fMRI Studies with Psilocybin” ), Judson Brewer, a researcher at Yale who was using fMRI to study the brains of experienced meditators, noticed that his scans and Robin’s looked remarkably alike. The transcendence
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
