Navdeep Ahuja

Enlightenment, a Distinct Cognitive State: Executive Awareness Cognition Theory (ExACT)

January 10, 2025 Navdeep Ahuja, Yogesh Singh, Jayvardhan Singh preprint

Enlightenment, which can be described as the end goal of long-term meditation practices, is a mental state where the boundaries of the apparent Self dissolve, experienced as a nondual awareness. The neural correlates of meditation reveal patterns such as deactivation of the Default Mode Network, activation of the Central Executive Network, and structural brain reorganization.In this context, we...