Mission
Discover what an optimal enlightened state actually is and whether it can be reliably cultivated.
What it does
Integrates neuroscience, psychology, meditation, contemplative traditions, phenomenology and consciousness research. It investigates compassion, non-duality, equanimity, reduced suffering, altered self-perception and other characteristics associated with enlightenment traditions.
What it manifests
The Atlas of Human Consciousness
An evidence-based Atlas of Human Consciousness and reproducible methods for voluntarily cultivating beneficial states.
The cycle, through this arm
- 01 Monitor Neuroscience, contemplative traditions and phenomenology together
- 02 Understand What compassion, non-duality and equanimity share in the brain
- 03 Discover States that reduce suffering and can be reached again
- 04 Design A reproducible method for cultivating one such state
- 05 Simulate The method's course across many kinds of mind
- 06 Validate The same state, reached by others, measured the same way
- 07 Organize Meditators, monasteries and laboratories in one study
- 08 Manifest A new page of the Atlas of Human Consciousness
- 09 Measure How reliably the state is reached, and how it holds
- 10 Improve Redraw the map where the evidence moved
Door
This arm's door has not opened yet.
It opens as the arm manifests. Until then, he keeps working.