Hi, this is Ken Rose from Outtakes and Fresh Starts on Substack. This week’s podcast is an excerpt from chapter one of The Neural Mystic, a book that I am writing based on courses that I have taught at the college level and on Embodied Philosophy, anonline yoga and alternative spirituality platform.
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A Suggested Reading for Chapter 1 of The Neural Mystic
As background to this chapter, I would suggest reading a classic and still influential book by William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York, 1902). Particularly relevant for our topic are Lectures I, XVI, and XVII. This book is in the public domain, and is widely available. Here is a link to the original print edition: https://archive.org/details/varietiesofrelig00jameuoft).References for This Podcast
Notes for This Podcast
See the post on Substack for the context of the footnotes:
* Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert, “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind,” Science 330, no 6006 (November 12, 2010): 932, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6006/932.
* Judson A. Brewer, Patrick D. Worhunsky, Jeremy R. Gray, Yi-Yuan Tang, Jochen Weber, Hedy Kober, “Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 no. 50 (December 2011): 20254-0259, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112029108.
* Tracy Brandmeyer and Arnaud Delorme, “Reduced mind wandering in experienced meditators and associated EEG correlates,” Experimental Brain Research 236 (September 2018): 2519–2528, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4811-5.
* Jonathan Smallwood and Jonathan W. Schooler, “The Science of Mind Wandering: Empirically Navigating the Stream of Consciousness,” Annual Review of Psychology 66 (2015): 487–518, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015331.
* Michael S. Franklin, Michael D. Mrazek, Craig L. Anderson, Jonathan Smallwood, Alan Kingstone, and Jonathan W. Schooler, “The Silver Lining of a Mind in the Clouds: Interesting Musings are Associated with Positive Mood while Mind-Wandering,” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (8/27/2013), http://0-dx.doi.org.read.cnu.edu/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00583.
* Shaghayegh Konjedi and Reza Maleeh, “A Closer Look at the Relationship Between the Default Network, Mind Wandering, Negative Mood, and Depression,” Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 17:4 (August 2017): 697-711, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-017-0506-z.
* In Sanskrit: yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ (Yoga-Sūtra 1.2).
