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A new study finds that altered states of consciousness associated with yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and other practices are common, and mostly positive or even transformative, but that for some ...

Mindfulness training may lead participants to experience disembodiment and unity -- so-called altered states of consciousness -- according to a new study. Mindfulness training may lead participants to ...

Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and other practices are gaining in popularity due to their potential to improve health and well-being. The effects of these practices are mostly positive and ...

Researchers from the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, the MIND Foundation, alongside other collaborators, have found that reductions in carbon dioxide saturation during circular breathwork ...

You are going to die. Hopefully, you don’t feel personally victimized by this realization, as everybody dies. While the awareness of death can evoke a wide range of responses and experiences within us ...

The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) could help you access an altered sense of consciousness, research suggests. Oxytocin, colloquially known as the love hormone, is largely responsible for ...

We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...

A recent conversation on Reddit is all about an illustration from one of my books. It’s a diagram showing a 3D space with lots of different states of consciousness depicted as blobs floating in space.

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In "time expansion experiences," time typically appears to expand by many orders of magnitude. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We ...

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