@dkazand - Your brain isn't built to show you reality. It's built to

Your brain isn't built to show you reality. It's built to keep you alive Which means your "experience" is a semi-functional hallucination meant for prediction, not perception Here's neuroscientist @kathryndevaney on what advanced meditation does to that machinery and what it feels like when it stops 0:00 Kati's story 2:32 The state of contemplative neuroscience 7:23 Nonduality, jhanas, and cessation 15:00 Kati's cessation experiences 21:40 Getting reality on your side 30:02 High ROI "woo" beliefs 35:35 Everything is just a story 37:31 Rewriting the operating system of the mind 44:03 How attention constructs the world 51:08 Groundlessness 1:00:35 How people actually change 1:04:12 How to restart ur meditation practice Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Full episode in my bio.