Distilling the Neurophenomenological Signatures of Pure Awareness during Transcendental Meditation.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience May 27, 2026 Alejandro Chandia-Jorquera, Sean D. Van Mil, Mar Estarellas et al. 3 citations
Pure awareness (PA) has been proposed as a form of minimal phenomenal experience, but its neurophenomenological signatures remain poorly characterized. Transcendental meditation (TM) offers a particularly tractable empirical model of PA because its procedure is standardized, its induction is effortless, and it reliably elicits reports of awareness with minimal content. We combined...