Nonzero | Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain | Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney @Nonzero | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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0:00 Kati’s very unusual Venn diagram
4:24 Your brain on meditation
10:31 The time Bob’s meditation got weird
16:15 What are the “jhanas”?
25:06 What science tells us about the jhana states
31:25 Are psychedelics gateway drugs to meditation?
40:57 Kati: Here’s how we get “not-self” wrong…
46:22 Psychedelics vs meditation—neuroscientifically
54:31 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Kathryn Devaney (The Berkeley Alembic). Recorded December 06, 2023.