The Nature of Nature (and the brain too) with Dr. David McCormick
Brain Matters
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The Fifth John Estates in Meditation
In meditation, there's something called John Estates and John Estates are states of experience or non-experience during meditation. For some reason, for a lot of people, this will transform into a state of feelings of joy or bliss. Now when you progress through these genres, you get to the fifth genre which is when you lose all sense of experience. And what happens is that you lose all the identifiers of yourself. You lose all the labels of yourself. All you have is a feeling of being present. That's it. It's very simple. Some people, when they get to that state, they feel this unification with everything. I haven't personally felt that, but they
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