Tibetan Neuroscience

Tibetan Neuroscience

July 23, 2002 1:48 pm 3 comments

A Science and the Mind conference in Australia has been discussing Tibetan meditation techniques and what neuroscientists can learn from them.

“Truly great advances of any kind are about making leaps … that explode on you seemingly from nowhere,” said Allan Snyder, keynote speaker at the conference, who is working on a thinking cap using magnetic pulses to access the creativity of the non-conscious mind.

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3 Comments

  • Garrett B.
    on Sep 29, 2005
    at 8:17 pm

    If the non-conscience could possibly even exist (At the least what would perceptually be there if in fact it is the non-conscience. If you’re saying the sub-conscience then what is that? It seems imagenative at best.), would we want to be able to see as i have stated, into the imagenation.

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  • Garrett B.
    on Sep 29, 2005
    at 8:21 pm

    Simply, how far is the journey to insanity. Guy Davenport wrote, “the best mask of reality is reality.” (Don’t know if that’s verbatum or not)

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  • Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharm
    on Jul 09, 2009
    at 3:23 pm

    Professor Allan Snyder is on to something, again.

    As with his discoveries in fiber optics a decade or so ago, his current focus on the enhancement of creativity with techniques such as trans cranial magnetic stimulation, are sure to produce paradigm-shifting results in neuroscience.

    A three-hour interview with him in May 2009 left me charged with an even deeper appreciation of what appears to be an infinity of limits in the human brain.

    I hope to test his hypothesis personally on my next trip to Sydney.

    Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharm
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
    Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
    trinidadca@gmail.com

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