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Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Sam Harris • Free Will
Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we “feel like ourselves.” However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
we alter the cocktail in the brain through how we feel.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
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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Dr. Richard Davidson, who is one of the world’s most respected cognitive neuroscientists, and who helped create the entire field of what is now being called Contemplative Neuroscience, and who is the founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, gave a Google Tech Talk in 2009 where he
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