A 14-year-old boy reported perceiving transparent colored light fields surrounding human and animal bodies. With drawings and verbal descriptions, he explained the phenomenon in detail. The left side of the body was covered with a transparent blue, and the right side was covered with transparent red, reaching 0.5–2 cm outside the skin. The blue field was attracted towards the north pole of a...
Meditation has long been known to promote health. We utilized a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of mind-body interventions on the body in a twin cohort during a week-long meditation retreat. This study was designed to address individual changes controlling for intersubject trait variation and explore the role of genetic background on multi-omic factors during meditation....