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The Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer: Reflections on a 2-Week Jhānas Meditation Retreat

Building a Science of Consciousness

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The Importance of Joy in Life

I got the impression that caffeine helped with a PT and the first Jana, but it would hamper the peacefulness of higher Jana's. And I think it had to do with kind of like lowering the caffeine intake. So and that experience, then morphed into what I thought was like the beginnings of the second Jana and that was joy, like unbelievable joy. Like getting really good news is very ego-driven and we'll talk about that.

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