Tantra Illuminated with Dr. Christopher Wallis Rewiring your Reality with Shamil Chandaria
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Oct 24, 2025 In a fascinating dialogue, Shamil Chandaria, a neuroscientist and meditation teacher, delves into the convergence of neuroscience and nondual philosophy. He discusses his course, Rewiring Your Reality, unpacking how our brains construct experience through predictive processing. Topics also include AI’s potential for consciousness, the nature of awakening, and whether the universe is evolving toward greater self-awareness. Shamil emphasizes the importance of embracing all experiences and maintaining ethical considerations in the age of AI.
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Awakening As Rewriting The Generative Model
- Shamil frames awakening as learning to see and reconfigure our brain's generative model via predictive processing.
- Liberation involves deconstructing entrenched priors and reconstructing healthier patterns informed by neuroscience.
One Ground, Many Flavors Of Awakening
- Spiritual traditions converge on a minimal phenomenal ground but diverge into multiple attractor basins or "flavors" of awakening.
- Shamil prefers a model of one ocean (ground) with many coastal settlements (endpoints) rather than a single mountaintop.
Science Helps But Leaves The Heart Problem
- Neuroscience is a powerful, pragmatic lens but cannot answer the ontological 'why is there experience' question.
- Shamil sees metaphysics and frameworks like IIT as complementary higher-level explanations of consciousness.
