Ep. 9 - Insight
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Are You a God?
Siddharta experienced enlightenment when going to talk about what that might mean. He'd been practising the pasna and a contemplative practice called mata very deeply, very powerfully. And it looks like one of his great innovations was to conjoin the two together. What happened was a radical transformation. So as a cognitive scientist, especially one who studies the connections between buddhism and cognitive science, i've become very interested in these kinds of experiences that people have.
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