The neuroscience supporting spiritual awakening - Dr. Shamil Chandaria

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Dr Shamil Chandaria is a senior research fellow at the centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford. He is also a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, London University, where he focuses on philosophical issues in neuroscience and well-being; a research fellow at Imperial College in the neuroscience of psychedelics; and a bye-fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

He has multi-disciplinary research interests spanning computational neuroscience, machine learning & artificial intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human well-being. He is currently working on computational theories of consciousness and meditation. Shamil has been a meditator for 38 years and has contemplative training in early Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shivaism.

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0:00 Teaser

1:00 Introduction

2:30 Transcendental meditation

5:40 Science as the language of our time

7:20 the universe has multiple perspectives

11:35 coming to spirituality through suffering

15:40 the goals of the many kinds of meditation: abiding, deconstruction, reconstruction

22:40 everything that arises is a mental construction

31:40 adrenaline can be excitement or stress

42:40 what science can add to ancient wisdom

50:40 why to cherry pick from traditions

51:44 science is on a level playing field with tradition

1:01:40 the science of perception supports meditation

1:04:40 the science of perception has reversed

1:16:40 meditation techniques keep getting better, and science is helping

1:39:40 our experience is a dependent co-arising

1:47:40 Overview of Shamil’s course

1:59:40 Waking up to the game then reconstructing it

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