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All humans should watch this, very scientific way to explain the underpinnings of meditation.

Do you have theta waves or something in the background to help us remember this?

this is freaking GOLD!!!!!!

I can’t wait until neurofeedback is normal for everyone to get. So hard to find any info on my scans 😅

It is a shame that he was talking to a room of what I guess to be other researchers in the field who followed the jargon more closely. As a simple zoologist I only followed a portion of what he said (on my first viewing). It is interesting to see a worker in this field with this type of realization or self awareness. I wonder to what extent the ability to achieve this is hard wired into practitioners.

You can't get this anywhere else -- and without this it's all a waste of time.

Really interesting stuff. I love how science is revealing what's happening in the brain in relation to different states of consciousness. This is the merging of science with mysticism.

The default Netwerk just goes along with the ego, so you can really connect these concepts across disciplines

Fascinating topic. Thanks a lot for sharing this! Anyone has experience with consumer-type EEG devices like the Muse for meditation? Seems promising on paper and after reading reviews. Feedback welcome.

Love all the comments from the "superior ones" who are already "egoless".... :)

This is one of your best talks I think I’ve ever heard Paul, but anytime I hear one of your talks that I haven’t heard, I often times think that. I don’t want to be nothing and no thing. That’s the dilemma tho right?

Our emotional pain is the best psychedelic. I wonder how could we get out of our bodies without dying. I have physical pain on different parts of my body, it makes me need to leave my body but I don’t want to die.

My thoughts seem to be a response to stimuli of various sorts, conscious and unconscious. Often existential, often internal.

I think a lot about the colors of things, the way photons split and bounce around to make colors...I suppose perceived by me eventually. I notice birds, insects, other things in the present moment much of the time.

Mind-blowing. Should say brain-blowing. Gary is amazing. He's like Science Ramana.

24:00

where and what is a brain? lol unlearn all you ever been told... start again!

I can 100% remember my thoughts and feelings and what I did at 9:11!!!

Cosmonaut 34:02 just has to be @MichaelTaft108

Watch out for cute cat videos they target the network

I've had dreams where something in the dream genuinely surprised me, like it was completely unpredictable. How can my own thought surprise me if I'm coming up with it?

How many 🍆 is this guy choking on while trying to talk

We don’t think our thoughts, our thoughts think us!

Funny guy

maybe it just me.... but it seems like i can hear the intro sound, just barely audibly through out the video.

I did Ayahuasca 2 years ago nearly now I went from Belfast to Preu it was a scary experience but amazing I also did dmt and I felt like I was in heaven ❤ looking for my dad who committed suicide

This a great intro for rational minded folk into meditation. Saving this one

8:15 memories are non local, they're across the brain in a number of places depending on content

I love how the brain doesn't lie .... I think it may be just about the only thing lol... but what about Psychedelics and sex lol... Sounds like a real trip 😂😂😂😂

Thanks again and again and again Paul. Thank you!

Thanks Paul!

BRILlIENT ….❤️

I have constant high pitched ringing in my ears. It never comes or goes. Honestly it's just my attention noticing it that comes and goes..

The problem was solved in me but hey, let me take the credit :)

Please do not inject yourself with mushroom tea. The mycelium grow in blood. This is not the same as purified psilocybin.

the tone on the background is awful, could not listen

Gary needs long beard and hair and a wizard hat. Just saying...🥰

Well, that’s IT. Truth.

One of the clearest presentations I have ever seen from Paul. Very pleased to find this.

I like the talk and all...but what exactly do I do?

I thought that thoughts will always be there, just that one can break identification with them. Apparently, according to Gary, and many others I now realize, they can disappear.. Interesting.

I think before we connect the brain to the internet (neuro link) we first have to stop the blah blah.

Am I supposed to be watching this on the couch?

What do I do ?????

SO WHAT DO WE DO ?

great intro

I wish people would be more detailed and specific about what they mean by “blah blah” and in the now. Or what “thoughts” are or inner dialogue? People act like everyone knows what it means but to be honest I have no idea what they are talking about. When I take LSD, AYAHUASCA, Psilocybin etc. I have an expansion of consciousness into spacetime and feel more normal. My sense of meaning similarly expands to include things with less survival relevance, but I have never hallucinated. I took MDMA and it was the pure crystal stuff people were raving about (literally, lol) and it just felt like a more intense version of how I NORMALLY FEEL. that feeling to me is more important to enlightenment than the LSD alone. When I do LSD the main effect is that my here and now ideas about the present are what fall away and I become timeless. Like I perceive back to the beginning of time. Once with Ayahuasca causality reverses and I saw the causes in the future and it was logically linked to past occurrences. This still happens if I pay attention and am calm. The way I see it is in synchronicities on a large scale. That’s the only way to describe it. However, I have never had an experience of the normal narrative of blah blah near as I can tell. However I did have an event that happened when I was just over 1 year old-when the self is forming. I almost died from lack of oxygen. My parents had the new neighbors escort them to the hospital emergency room. However I experienced it as an NDE ! I was floating 30 feet or more above the cars and watched them turn into the hospital. So I always felt like an alien, and I literally could not stand to be around normal people because of how they acted. It was like they were insane just acting in the way normal kids act I now know. But the more I learn about nonduality, the more I realize that I think I was at the 10,000 hour yogi level when I was 4 years old. Not even joking. I made up a mantra to clear my mind not of an inner narrative but to try to stop the unity of myself with others which scared me and stressed me out so much because I thought if anyone realized what I was like and what I was doing they might hate or even kill me. This was when I was 4 years old. My mantra was “that there:there that” and what I did by saying that was go underground. I had a fantasy underground world I lived in too. Anyway I used to think that I was an alien left on Earth by accident. I saw a different world than most people. I didn’t see a division between myself and others and what was painful was seeing and feeling all the pain and darkness around me. I used to have blinding migraines where I would throw up when I was a little kid. My brothers didn’t see. I was totally alone, but I brought home dogs and animals until my mom kept making me get rid of them. One day I caught a bunch of snakes and brought them home all proud and to me they were so cute and wonderful but my mom lost her mind and screamed like she was dying and chased me out of the house. I loved all the animals and she screamed again when I brought home a field mouse, but it was so cute I couldn’t believe she did that. Then I brought home eggs left behind in a field they mowed by the house and that she let me keep. I hatched them and they were mallard ducks! We raised them and taught them to fly. Anyway, I have always had an affinity for animals too and they do unusual things around me. So if anyone has any info or ideas about NDE or OBE effects on this stuff please let me know. I have never thought in words, and it just sounds strange. How can you even think using words?? I go over what I am going to say because I am so different and I used to think this is what people meant by the inner dialogue but when people give examples I am just bewildered because I have never done that. As an undergrad I once told my professor that I didn’t have an ego because I didn’t have a personal self/important combativeness I always found painful in others... before I knew about any of this stuff. Seriously I am a mutant. Not even kidding. Any info or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I disagree with the “I” constantly changing. My personality and expression changes. Such as if I am talking to a child versus work. But my I is solid. I always have the same sense of self. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are saying? Thanks

I love this bassicly explaining the benefits of practicing Buddhist philosophy and meditating in a scientific way

The great modern-day Zen master