so not spacial-sensory dimensions but relational ones?
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not having experienced formless spheres I can only speculate on the quality of awareness: I'm speculating a cholergenic area in the pontine tegmentum (if I remember correctly), related to REM sleep and when lesioned produces unconsciousness, might be related to arupa jhanas.
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I wonder if this sort of unconsciousness may be more likely related to the so-called "ninth jhāna," nirodha samāpatti.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1237879777211502597?s=20 …
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Formless spheres of meditation? If I can produce DMT by choice I will. Just point me towards the right thoughtspaces.
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After the four jhāna-s, which are within the realm of form, are an additional four āyatana-s, a set of formless spheres/realms/dimensions corresponding to infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness, and neither-perception-nor-nonperception.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1240386330900582400?s=20 …
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An fMRI/EEG study on meditation with Leigh Brasington suggests jhāna endogenously activates the brain's reward systems. 