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

Fun conversation with James Iandoli about meditation: youtu.be/TY-IU5R6zyU

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A new review on neuroimmune pathophysiology of #LongCOVID explores how SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting neurological symptoms through a combination of direct infection, immune dysregulation, and persistent inflammation. 1/

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

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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

Happy Fourth — brought to you by immigrants: Barbecue (originally Taino) Pasta salad (China, via Italy) Tortilla chips and salsa (Mexican) Hamburgers and hot dogs (German) Beer (from what’s now Iran and Iraq) Watermelon (Egypt, via the Kalahari) And fireworks (China)

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What happens when meditation turns your world inside out? Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with the Harvard Gazette about an often-overlooked aspect of meditation: the high prevalence of meditation-related altered states of consciousness—and the fact that, for many,

Really enjoyed this conversation with Pierce Salguero on the Black Beryl Podcast about emergent phenomena, ethics, meditation, etc. Enjoy! buzzsprout.com/2044347/episod…

Delighted to share our new publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, entitled: “Integrated phenomenology and brain connectivity demonstrate changes in nonlinear processing in jhana advanced meditation” 🧠🧘‍♀️🔬 In this article, we used electroencephalography (EEG)

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

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

Full PDF on our website and from the publisher: meditation.mgh.harvard.edu meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/files/Sparby_2… link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🙏

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Covid accelerates vascular aging An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants —Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of vascular aging (EVA) —Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid —Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection

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