Abstract In his talk, Joseph Campbell introduces Indian and Far Eastern arts to Western audiences. Both sets of practices foster a transformation of the mind that is accompanied by the reduction of a subjective sense of the self. This “ego-quenching” process can be fostered by skills that are typically developed by mindfulness or meditation training (vigilance, cognitive flexibility,...
Both creativity and responsibility are important higher-order skills to develop to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, and both are related to attentional states of consciousness and to ethics. Meditation is a set of practices that trains attentional and emotional regulation. A few studies have shown that different kinds of meditation can foster different kinds of creative thinking, and...
Some studies suggest a link between creativity and rapid eye movement sleep. Narcolepsy is characterized by falling asleep directly into rapid eye movement sleep, states of dissociated wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep (cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and lucid dreaming) and a high dream recall frequency. Lucid dreaming...