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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.
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Scientific evidence shows meditation and mindset can rapidly alter biology, including the microbiome, gene expression, and telomeres.
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So we measure the microbiome.
And we have such an amazing community of people because you got 1,000 people in the study, 800 people are giving a microbiome sample before and after the event.
And our data just on the microbiome, just in terms of what's possible and what can change in seven days, you'd have to change your diet and you'd have to do a
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