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🌕😈☀️ "Nasty little Buddhist" Seeking via neuroscience and psychology informed dharma.

Portland, OR
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    1. @world‏ @questionaware Mar 25
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      I guess I'm more talking about the effects. If your effects are not just, "I don't have conceptual thought anymore", then I have no idea what kind of meditation you're doing.

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    2. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      Long-time meditator here. Two points: 1. There are some public figures in various traditions who will say things that approximate to ""I don't have conceptual thought anymore". But if you listen, they will clarify and qualify that statement.

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    3. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      1 ct'd: These people - who come from various practice approaches/traditions - will usually specify that their resting/baseline psychological state is one close to pure sensory perception, w/o an inner "narrative"

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    4. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      and with a lot of inner equipoise - so much, to the extent that they exercise some effortless choice about whether they choose to engage in conceptual thinking or not. Meditation, at a certain level, becomes a kind of mind and perception training.

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    5. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      2. I have some attainments in this domain, and I'mma hazard a hypothesis about what might be happening. I think that meditation is also nervous-system training, cleaning, refactoring.

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    6. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      I strongly suspect that there is some very fine-grained neuroplasticity happening that has very significant effects for the practitioner's subjective experience. And yet it happens on very fine grained levels where it is difficult to point to objective neurological correlates

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    7. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      We've been doing fifty years of psychophysiology and then imaging (fMRI, etc) on meditators, but the studies aren't slam dunks because I suspect the neural re-ordering and re-connecting is happening on minute levels, that nonetheless make a *world of difference* on the inside

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    8. Steven Fan‏ @_StevenFan Mar 25
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      i haven't gone super deep into this, im speaking because im interested in finding out more noticing most protocols are on TM and MBSR which don't have much structure. haven't seen disassembly studies either or assessment of meditative development. big opportunities us to build

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    9. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      If you're into this stuff, check out Daniel Goleman's 1977 text "Varieties of Meditative Experience" (note the reference to William James). It was renamed for the second edition in the 80s.

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    10. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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      And a lot of sophisticated thinking was done in the 70s, 80s & 90s on these topics, even if the measurement tools were basic and very low resolution. A lot of wheel re-inventing gets done every five years as people discover meditation and wanna do science on & about it.

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      Steven Fan‏ @_StevenFan Mar 25
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      yeah I get the sense I have a favorite entreatment from a scientist I know: go to the library and read the scholarship the psychology tools probably haven't evolved but I wonder if the depth to which they analyzed components of meditative systems has, i see 'no' right now

      3:36 PM - 25 Mar 2020
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        2. Steven Fan‏ @_StevenFan Mar 25
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          I'm a massive fan of Paanskepp who I'm basing an exhaustive search of emotion landscape around, the books im reading right now are right in that period

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        3. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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          Oh hell yeah. I am also a giant Panksepp appreciator. He's freaking great, and I don't think he got a fair rap from one of his scientific rivals who was better at podcasts than him.

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        2. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 Mar 25
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          Have you read any Reggie Ray? Maybe we've talked about this? Imperfect as he is, he is a very good communicator about affective experience and how some meditative approaches distance us from it, while others can deepen our contact with it.

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        3. Steven Fan‏ @_StevenFan Mar 25
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          Replying to @Timber_22 @questionaware @crystalteardro2

          Heard of, not read. Thanks for the tip! Sounds super relevant.

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