The Enigma of Jhāna and Implications for Neuroscience, Consciousness Studies and Research Methodology
April 8, 2024 P. A. Dennison 1 citation preprint
Jhāna meditation was little known in the West before the 1980s, historically shrouded in mystery and mostly confined to monastic traditions in Buddhist countries. In recent years, however, deep states of meditation in general, but particularly the jhānas, have been attracting interest from neuroscience researchers as another avenue to explore neural networks and functions in the human brain....