Interview with Shinzen Young & Chelsey Fasano - The Science of Enlightenment

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Topics Include:

0:00 - Intro

0:51 - The three stories of self and reality

6:23 - Gating attentional abilities vs reducing self-referential activity

7:59 - How the modern influences traditional teachers

8:27 - Integrating hard data and subjective experience

9:11 - Chelsey’s meditation experiences

11:23 - Antonio Damasio’s theoretical framework and other theories

14:14 - Decrease in identification with the body in advanced practitioners

16:50 - Is it possible to grade levels of enlightenment?

19:34 - How Shinzen proves someone is not an arhat

22:32 - Enlightenment in the body

26:28 - Clinging and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)

35:27 - Reconfiguring top-down processing via meditation

40:12 - What is early science?

43:22 - Integration of liberation

49:40 - Shinzen’s experience after a lifetime of meditation and science

1:05:22 - Does theism have a place in science?

1:08:54 - Is enlightenment really about raw data?

Edited January 9, 2021 by Raze

[Raze]

Most interesting things I got from this interview

-Shinzen's unbelievable standard for a fully liberated person

-Shinzen's perpetual enlightened experience confirms concepts from science

-it's possible you can only do science properly while believing in a notion of god