A meditation dataset from my previous life as a neuroscience grad student has long been incubating on an old hard drive.
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After a tumultuous exit from my former program, I ventured on an intensive retreat at a traditional Buddhist monastery in Taiwan that I had attended two years prior, this time to investigate the neurophenomenology of contemplative practices and their ecological relevance.
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A rogue researcher, I was under absolutely no supervision nor mentorship, designing and executing the study completely outside the confines of academia. It was an immensely liberating experience, both the monastic training and the trans-disciplinary nature of the project itself.
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As my research deepened, it became increasingly ethnographic. From day one, the project was an undeniably participatory undertaking, a feature with which my former lab took immense issue, precipitating my departure. Free of their attempts at control, I could fully immerse myself.
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A part of me died during the process of transition between worlds. Something else was born in its place. I'm hoping to reintegrate them.
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