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Meditation has stronger relationships with mindfulness, kundalini, and mystical experiences than yoga or prayer

John M. de Castro

Consciousness and Cognition 35 (C):115-127 (2015)

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Concentrative meditation enhances pre-attentive processing: A MMN study.Narayanan Srinivasan & Shruti Baijal - 2007 - Neuroreport 18 (16):1709-1712.details The mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm which is an indicator of pre-attentive processing was used to study the effects of concentrative meditation. Sudarshan Kriya Yoga meditation is a yogic exercise practiced in an ordered sequence beginning with breathing exercises and ending with concentrative (Sahaj Samadhi) meditation. Auditory MMN waveforms were recorded at the beginning and after each of these practices for meditators and equivalently after relaxation sessions for the non-meditators. Overall meditators were found to have larger MMN amplitudes than non-meditators. The (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Inner Light Perception as a Quantum Phenomenon-Addressing the Questions of Physical and Critical Realisms, Information and Reduction.Ravi Prakash & Michele Caponigro - unknowndetails Subjectivity or the problem of ‘qualia’ tends to make the accessibility and comprehension of psychological events intangible especially for scientific exploration. The issue becomes even more complicated but interesting when one turns towards mystical experiences. Such experiences are different from other psychological phenomena in the sense that they don’t occur to every one, so are difficult to comprehend even for their qualifications of existence. We conducted a qualitative study on one such experience of inner-light perception. This is a common experience (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Effects of an 8-week meditation program on the implicit and explicit attitudes toward religious/spiritual self-representations.Cristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, Fabio Campanella, Roberto Eleopra & Franco Fabbro - 2014 - Consciousness and Cognition 30:266-280.details Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Brief body-scan meditation practice improves somatosensory perceptual decision making.Laura Mirams, Ellen Poliakoff, Richard J. Brown & Donna M. Lloyd - 2013 - Consciousness and Cognition 22 (1):348-359.details We have previously found that attention to internal somatic sensations during a heart beat perception task increases the misperception of external touch on a somatic signal detection task , during which healthy participants erroneously report feeling near-threshold vibrations presented to their fingertip in the absence of a stimulus. However, it has been suggested that mindful interoceptive attention should result in more accurate somatic perception, due to its non-evaluative and controlled nature. To investigate this possibility, 62 participants completed the SSDT before (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 13 citations
Processing of proprioceptive and vestibular body signals and self-transcendence in Ashtanga yoga practitioners.Francesca Fiori, Nicole David & Salvatore M. Aglioti - 2014 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8.details Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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