Announcing our new paper investigating brain connectivity in absorption meditation, now published in Cerebral Cortex, titled: Advanced concentrative absorption meditation reorganizes functional connectivity gradients of the brain: 7T MRI and phenomenology case study of jhana

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Last year, we started an amazing project that researchers at the EPRC The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium have been planning for over a decade. Now, we need your help to bring it to the public 🌎 Feeling extremely lucky, Hannah Hannah , Daniel danielmingram and I are thrilled that our

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What can DMT teach us about how we build worlds of experience? In this preprint we examined how DMT alters the structure of experience, focusing on how its immersive qualities leads into 'virtual' worlds inhabited by entities. Congrats James W. Sanders for leading this colosal work

What does neuroscience really know about focused attention meditation? And what’s next? Focused attention meditation (FA) is a class of practice involving intentionally directing attention to a single object, such as the breath or bodily sensations, while consistently bringing

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Meditation research is entering its most daring phase yet. The first wave focused on the benefits of meditation. The second wave brought greater methodological rigor and began exploring the mechanisms behind those benefits. Now, the third wave shifts the spotlight to largely

How can lived experience be mathematically formalized, and what might computational models reveal about the depths of consciousness during advanced meditation? As research on advanced meditation enters a new era, a powerful question emerges: Can we mathematically model

Announcing our new preprint on the neuroscience of cessation events as informed by brain criticality The manuscript is titled: “Brain Criticality and Advanced Meditation ‘Cessation’ Events: An Intensively Sampled Electroencephalography Case Study” In this intensively sampled

What is the influence of long-term meditation on attention? How might attentional changes relate to the emergence of advanced meditative states and traits? In our new preprinted review, “Attention and Meditative Development: A Review and Synthesis of Long-Term Meditators and

What if advanced meditation is the next stage in human development? The idea that human development doesn’t stop after adolescence is hardly new. What is new, and what’s emerging from our research at the Meditation Research Program, is a growing recognition that advanced

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Has the modern worldview overlooked a major dimension of human development—simply because we are afraid of death? What if meditative development, as a distinct and unique developmental trajectory, asks a far more fundamental and human question than we’re used to: Am I able to

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Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness. In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just released the preprint, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is

Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence. Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call