I found this post important to developing what’s proved to be a useful model for me of thinking about neural annealing as a metaphor for how the brain operates in a variety of situations. In particular, I think it makes a lot of sense when thinking about what it is that meditation and psychedelics do to the brain, and consequently helps me think about how to use them as part of Zen practice.
One thing I like about this post is that it makes claims that should be verifiable via brain studies in that we should see things like brain wave patterns that correspond with annealing activity and then can follow up with people to see if after annealing they are changed. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that this is true, but it points towards being able to construct an RCT to test the theory.
I found this post important to developing what’s proved to be a useful model for me of thinking about neural annealing as a metaphor for how the brain operates in a variety of situations. In particular, I think it makes a lot of sense when thinking about what it is that meditation and psychedelics do to the brain, and consequently helps me think about how to use them as part of Zen practice.
One thing I like about this post is that it makes claims that should be verifiable via brain studies in that we should see things like brain wave patterns that correspond with annealing activity and then can follow up with people to see if after annealing they are changed. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that this is true, but it points towards being able to construct an RCT to test the theory.