Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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A Proposed Unified Theory for Altered States of Consciousness http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/transitionalabsorption.htm Abstract: An anthropological view...
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We have discussed how the left prefrontal cortex has been found to be active in meditation. Now scientists have found that the right prefrontal cortex is...
you wrote," Now scientists have found that the right prefrontal cortex is involved in compulsive behaviors, and of all things itching." thank you for sharing...
... Hi Jill and others, could some of this discussion migrate to the meditation_research group? I think Jeff would agree with me that it would be more proper ...
Hello friends Michael Hawkins recently helped me to get the GWV¹s archive of recorded dhamma dialogs serviceable by a larger audience. There are in MP4 ...
I've been meaning to respond to this thread for a while. I think the question of "bliss" is really the $1M question for the Jhana forum, Buddhism, and perhaps...
Hi I am not sure about correct translation of th First Noble Truth. In some cases it looks to me it is translated as: Life is suffereing. In other cases, there...
Hello friends, Miki, and others, and thank-you for your contribution to this thread. Yes, it appears that the Charismatic Christian and Pentecostal movements...
Hello Jeff, Miki and others, As I live in area that is a center of Southern Charismatic and Pentecostal faith, I attended services and learned a great deal...
Hi Christine and if I haven't already said so, welcome. I really enjoy your being here. When you talk about moving the energy up higher in the head from the ...
Christine, thank you for this post. For some reason seeing in writing what I have been practicing, putting it in perspective, really helps. For me, as with...
... It could be moved there, as I am also a member. I thought that it might actually generate some attention on the research group from here. Patricia de la...
Hi Jill, thank you for the welcome! it is good to be here:) Jill , the only way i have found to move the energy up higher into the head is ..simply letting go....
I do remember crawling before I could walk then walking before I could run. If one is more advanced in meditation than another and can see how they perceive...
To all my friends As a yogi, bliss was not my main focus in meditation so too it was also not mainly what was observed during my inner travels. I used chakra...
Thank you Anthony. For me, this road was paved with intention. Seeking. Seeking enlightenment, so to speak. I came upon this quite innocently, not having any...
Tony, You take my words out of context. I do not begrudge anyone their "little nice feeling" or any other fruit of practice. I am glad to support their happy...
... From: bobmebobbs To: Jhanas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: [Jhanas] Re: is bliss the only path? ... And what did you...
While I agree with Patricia, that it is good to stimulate dialog on meditation research on this listserve, I believe the meditation research listserv...
I would like to share one of my kayagata meditation experience for the record. Although it is not a popular. About 3 years ago, I had coughing occasionally....
Hello everyone, I have been experiencing a very strange phenomena lately upon going to sleep. Before actually entering into unconsciousness my body seems to ...
Hello friends, there seems to be a jihad-style censoring of the work of the GWV on the web, because if one were to conduct a Google search for the term `jhana'...
Dear Jeffrey: I work as a web developer and I can say a thing or two about this. Nobody, no individual commercial/religious organization has control over the ...
"The best response to negative emotion is to allow it to self- liberate by remaining in non-dual awareness, free of grasping and aversion. If we can do this,...
Formal meditation, especially the strict forms found in traditions such as Zen, would seem to be the most direct way to self-liberate negative emotions. But...
Dear All, Tomorrow the 7th of Feb is the beginning of Chinese Lunar New Year. This year is the year of the RAT according to Chinese Zodiac. Accordingly to folk...
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