Neuroscientific Research and Contemplative Communities with Kathryn Devaney - Reach Truth Podcast
Channel: Tasshin Fogleman
Date: 2022-03-23

Tasshin talks with Kathryn Devaney (@kathryndevaney) about neuroscientific research, meditation, sangha, the Berkeley Alembic, awakening, and more.

- Kathryn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathryndevaney
- The Berkeley Alembic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BerkeleyAlembic
- Sara Lazar paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16272874/ [Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness]
- Gaelle's paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23125828/ [Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state]

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0:00 - Start
1:22:00 - Limitations of fMRI & new types of imaging
1:24:45 - Imagine you’re on your deathbed in 50 years. What would the new state look like?
1:28:30 - what would you like to do to start doing those?
1:33:35 - How did you get out of the void yourself?
1:38:55 - Kathryn's history with Communities of Practice
1:45:00 - Starting the Berkeley Alembic
1:48:45 - The importance of community
1:51:50 - Tasshin’s vision for the podcast
1:55:45 - How does the “loving kindness guy” think about that label, anger, and more? On being Just a Guy (TM)
2:02:30 - Relationship to “pursuing enlightenment/awakening”, goals in practice, what is suffering