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Research on permanently altering wandering mind and default mode network, and creating a watching/cognitive control network with meditation. Use of real time fMRI to focus on key selfing center to monitor meditation. Psychological studies on awakened/non-dual folk for psychological development and mysticism.
Recent cognitive neuroscience demonstrates that meditation can permanently reduce or eliminate the wandering mind. This wandering mind, called the default mode network, is the common situation in most folks' minds when they are not doing a task, and is a self-concerned, "I, me, my" focused, narrative. Most of our unhappiness, worry, concerns, and fears are generated and aggravated by the operation of this default mode network. Meditation can change that. It is also possible to lose the negative aspects of a sense of time.
"No Thoughts, No Time: The Experience, The New Science", Part II, presented at the Science and NonDuality Conference in San Rafael, CA on Oct. 22, 2011. The video "No Thoughts, No Time, Part I" is the beginning of this presentation.
Useful links for more information:
Website: happiness-beyond-thought.com
Blog: happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/gudakesha7/videos
MP3 Downloads: happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads
Soundcloud Channel: soundcloud.com/gary_weber
Facebook: facebook.com/gary.weber.528
See happiness-beyond-thought.com/about for more links to interviews and articles and information.
Books
1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Free Scribd.com version: scribd.com/doc/113131786/Happiness-Beyond-Thought-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening
Paperback version available on amazon.com
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening
Free version: happiness-beyond-thought.com/dbt.html
Amazon: amazon.com (Paperback & Kindle versions)
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mfjAlBLyzgM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (with Rich Doyle)
New Harbinger Publications: newharbinger.com/stillness
Barnes and Noble: barnesandnoble.com
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software. Amazon paperback. Blogpost "Updating Your Brain's Software" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/03/updating-your-brains-software.html"
Panel Discussions
Science and Nonduality Conference 2013:
"Filling in the Details": youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
"What is Enlightenment?": bcove.me/q81mq5iv
Interviews
BATGAP: batgap.com/gary-weber
Bloggingheads TV: bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840
Secular Buddhist: secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
Research on permanently altering wandering mind and default mode network, and creating a watching/cognitive control network with meditation. Use of real time fMRI to focus on key selfing center to monitor meditation. Psychological studies on awakened/non-dual folk for psychological development and mysticism.
Recent cognitive neuroscience demonstrates that meditation can permanently reduce or eliminate the wandering mind. This wandering mind, called the default mode network, is the common situation in most folks' minds when they are not doing a task, and is a self-concerned, "I, me, my" focused, narrative. Most of our unhappiness, worry, concerns, and fears are generated and aggravated by the operation of this default mode network. Meditation can change that. It is also possible to lose the negative aspects of a sense of time.
"No Thoughts, No Time: The Experience, The New Science", Part II, presented at the Science and NonDuality Conference in San Rafael, CA on Oct. 22, 2011. The video "No Thoughts, No Time, Part I" is the beginning of this presentation.
Useful links for more information:
Website: happiness-beyond-thought.com
Blog: happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/gudakesha7/videos
MP3 Downloads: happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads
Soundcloud Channel: soundcloud.com/gary_weber
Facebook: facebook.com/gary.weber.528
See happiness-beyond-thought.com/about for more links to interviews and articles and information.
Books
1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Free Scribd.com version: scribd.com/doc/113131786/Happiness-Beyond-Thought-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening
Paperback version available on amazon.com
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening
Free version: happiness-beyond-thought.com/dbt.html
Amazon: amazon.com (Paperback & Kindle versions)
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mfjAlBLyzgM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (with Rich Doyle)
New Harbinger Publications: newharbinger.com/stillness
Barnes and Noble: barnesandnoble.com
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software. Amazon paperback. Blogpost "Updating Your Brain's Software" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/03/updating-your-brains-software.html"
Panel Discussions
Science and Nonduality Conference 2013:
"Filling in the Details": youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
"What is Enlightenment?": bcove.me/q81mq5iv
Interviews
BATGAP: batgap.com/gary-weber
Bloggingheads TV: bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840
Secular Buddhist: secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
