My Presentation to the Scientific and Medical Network — October 2023
Advanced Meditative States and their Role in an Expanded Scientific Worldview
Please note: The video of this presentation is on Vimeo here and the Q&A session is here.
A Decisive Experience of Now
“ταὐτὸν δ᾽ ἐστὶ νοεῖν τε καὶ οὓνεκέν ἐστι νόημα”
“It is the same: awareness and that because of which there are the appearances.”
(Parmenides, fragment B8, line 34)
Having the habit of sitting for long periods, abiding, with hardly a thought, focused on the reverberations of the manifestation of my form arising as characteristic inner spontaneous sounds, colors, and lights, I was amazed one day when something unusual happened.
Suddenly, I realized where I was. It arrived as a flash of recognition, not as a thought, for this was different — it was not so much something added to what was happening, as something suddenly no longer there. It was that bare perspective that normally abided, a characterless perspective which didn’t so much disappear, as it did reverse, no longer lost immanently within the sounds, colors and light, but present clearly. And that clearing was remarkably familiar.
