Your Brain On 34,000 Hours of Meditation: When Science and Tech Meet Spirituality

Richard Davidson, Karen Armstrong, and Kate Stockly, join Brian Greene to discuss the psychological and physiological impacts of sacred experiences, and how technology may make such experiences more readily available.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participants: Richard Davidson, Karen Armstrong, & Kate Stockly
Moderator: Brian Greene

00:00 Humanity’s Desire for Transcendence
03:44 Participant Introductions
07:00 Can Technology Help Us Reach Enlightenment?
15:00 Science vs. Religion: A History of Conflict and Collaboration
22:00 The Role of Rituals in Spirituality and Human Connection
30:00 What Brain Scans Reveal About Long-Term Meditators
38:00 Making Meditation Universal
46:00 The Ethics of Merging Technology and Spirituality
54:00 The Future of Meditation Research and Consciousness Studies
1:02:00 Can Virtual Reality Create Sacred Experiences?
1:12:00 Redefining What It Means to Be Human

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