1. Brain Wave Patterns
1.1. Transcending
1.1.1. TM
1.1.1.1. Skin conductance increases
1.1.1.2. Resets our stress response system
1.1.2. Transcending in meditation
1.1.2.1. Transition from one state to another
1.1.2.2. Resets autonomic functioning
1.1.3. The fourth
1.1.3.1. Pure Consciousness
1.1.3.2. Mind is completely silent
1.2. Meditation Practices
1.2.1. Gamma wave
1.2.1.1. Restriction of the mind
1.2.1.2. Tibetan Buddhists (love and kindness)
1.2.2. Theta wave
1.2.2.1. Involves an open-monitoring
1.2.2.2. Mindfulness
1.2.3. Alpha1
1.2.3.1. Doesn't involve individual manipulation
1.2.3.2. Automatic self-transcending
1.3. Mind Wandering
1.3.1. Positive mind-wandering
1.3.1.1. Higher connectivity (DMN and FPN)
1.3.1.2. Higher creativity
1.3.2. Negative mind-wandering
1.3.2.1. Unpleasant emotions
1.3.2.2. Reduced working memory capacity
1.3.3. Meditations traditions
1.3.3.1. Buddhist
1.3.3.2. Automatic Self-Transcending
2. Enlightenment
2.1. The Four
2.1.1. TM
2.1.1.1. A tool for enlightenment
2.1.1.2. Pure self-awareness
2.1.2. Theoretical evidence
2.1.2.1. Sense of self/no content
2.1.2.2. Body functions differently
2.1.3. Empirical evidence
2.1.3.1. Absence of time, space, sense
2.1.3.2. Apneustic breathing
2.2. Cosmic Consciousness
2.2.1. Experience of Pure Consciousness
2.2.1.1. Can occur exponentially
2.2.1.2. Can occur while meditating
2.2.2. During sleep
2.2.2.1. Inner wakefulness
2.2.2.2. Continuum process
2.2.3. During waking state
2.2.3.1. Broad-band coherence increased
2.2.3.2. Brains start to work at the right time
2.3. The mind
2.3.1. Craves boundlessness
2.3.2. Transcendental Consciousness
2.3.2.1. Non-dual state of pure Consciousness
2.3.2.2. Automatic self-transcending category
2.3.3. Cosmic Consciousness permanently
2.3.3.1. Regular practice TM
2.3.3.2. TC gets integrated
3. Why We Do What We Do
3.1. Behavior
3.1.1. Classical condition
3.1.1.1. Two simultaneous stimuli are needed
3.1.2. Operant conditioning
3.1.2.1. Voluntary behavior
3.1.2.2. Pleasure circuit
3.2. Desire
3.2.1. Coexist in a fixed orbit
3.2.1.1. Action, impression, desire
3.2.2. Can be positively transformed
3.2.2.1. by transcending regularly (TM)
3.2.3. Desire cycle
3.2.3.1. Starts at Chit
3.2.3.2. Any action leads to experience
3.2.3.3. Past impression resonates with present
3.2.3.4. Experiences giving rise to new thoughts
3.2.3.5. Though gains sympathy of the senses
3.2.4. Growth
3.2.4.1. Money doesn’t always motivate us
3.2.4.2. Creative thinking tasks
3.2.4.3. Three factors
3.3. We are What We Eat
3.3.1. Brain
3.3.1.1. Mediator between inner and outer
3.3.1.2. Helps us make sense of our reality
3.3.2. Drugs
3.3.2.1. Distort our perception
3.3.2.2. Disturbs dynamic balance of synapses
3.3.3. TM
3.3.3.1. Natural process of transcending
3.3.3.2. Stimulates alpha brain waves
4. Paradigms
4.1. Information processing
4.1.1. Low road response
4.1.2. High road Response
4.2. We use paradigms to judge
4.2.1. Affected by our emotional response
4.3. Emotional response
4.3.1. Affects our Action and thinking
4.3.2. Affects our meaning making
4.4. Brain and Consciousness models
4.4.1. The Maharishi Vedic Science model
4.4.1.1. Consciousness is a biological phenomenon
4.4.1.2. Neuronal processes
4.4.1.3. Individual experience is effected
4.4.2. Brain and Consciousness model
4.4.2.1. Consciousness is a never-changing phenomenon
4.4.2.2. Process going on in the brain
4.4.3. Consciousness
4.4.3.1. Pure Being
4.4.3.2. All there is
4.5. Paradigms and Racism
4.5.1. Unconscious behavior
4.5.1.1. Act on prejudice and stereotypes
4.5.1.2. neutral and open
4.5.2. Government
4.5.2.1. Workshops
4.5.3. Improving racism
4.5.3.1. Rewire brain's structure
4.5.3.2. Long process
4.5.3.3. TM
5. Evolving Brain
5.1. Brain’s Details
5.1.1. Brain
5.1.1.1. Starts developing in the womb
5.1.1.2. 25 years to develop maturity
5.1.2. Grey matter
5.1.2.1. Outer layer
5.1.2.2. Process information
5.1.2.3. Dendrites
5.1.3. White matter
5.1.3.1. Fatty-inner layer
5.1.3.2. Myelin & astrocytes
5.2. Waves of Maturation
5.2.1. Brain evolution
5.2.1.1. Womb
5.2.1.2. From three to seven
5.2.1.3. From five to ten
5.2.1.4. From twelve to twenty five
5.2.2. Worldview
5.2.2.1. Alter by changes is grey and white matter
5.2.3. Consciousness
5.2.3.1. level of physiology
5.2.3.2. Changes by information
5.3. Experience Changes the Brain
5.3.1. Physiology
5.3.1.1. Its nature is to grow
5.3.1.2. Designed for change
5.3.2. Experiences
5.3.2.1. Change our worldview
5.3.2.2. Change our brains plasticity
5.3.3. Habits
5.3.3.1. We become our habits
5.3.3.2. Be can change
6. Sleeping and Dreaming
6.1. Two processes Guide Sleep
6.1.1. Sleep pressure
6.1.1.1. Slows down body
6.1.1.2. Adenosine
6.1.2. Circadian rhythms
6.1.2.1. Nature's 24-hour cycle
6.1.2.2. Influenced by the sun
6.1.3. Sleep state
6.1.3.1. We sleep 1/3 of our lives
6.1.3.2. Semi-starvation mode
6.2. Brain during Sleep and Dreaming
6.2.1. Sleep and dreaming
6.2.1.1. Activity and intelligently regenerates
6.2.1.2. Synaptic housekeeping
6.2.2. Stages and cycles
6.2.2.1. Stage one
6.2.2.2. Stage two
6.2.2.3. Stage three and four
6.2.2.4. Paradoxical sleep
6.3. Sleep Prepares the brain
6.3.1. Waking state
6.3.1.1. Affected by the quality of functioning of our brain
6.3.1.2. Brain's functionality is affected by our sleep habits
6.3.2. Sleep
6.3.2.1. Process new information
6.3.2.2. We need more than six hours of sleep
6.3.2.3. Brain merges new information with stored memories
6.3.3. Sleep deprivation
6.3.3.1. Impacts cognitive function
6.3.3.2. More prominent psychiatric cases
7. Perception
7.1. Determines what we see
7.1.1. Determines what we see
7.1.2. We see 2,000 bits
7.2. Two sensitive receptors
7.2.1. Rods
7.2.2. Cons
7.3. Lateral inhibition
7.3.1. Helps reduce firing of all the rods and cons
7.3.2. Input bounces off the back of the eye
7.4. An active process
7.4.1. Uses our focus
7.4.2. Sensory system
7.5. Attention
7.5.1. Reality is what we focus on
7.5.2. Determines what we experience
7.5.2.1. Cognitive orientation
7.5.3. We don't see the world as it is
7.6. Mind exists in layers
7.6.1. Senses
7.6.2. Mind
7.6.3. Intellect
7.6.4. Feelings
7.6.5. Ego