1. Higher States and Psychedelic Experiences
1.1. Transcendental Consciousness (4th State)
1.1.1. Absence of Time
1.1.2. Absence of Space
1.1.3. Absence of Body Sense
1.2. Cosmic Consciousness
1.2.1. Double Act of Perception
1.2.1.1. Aware of environment
1.2.1.2. Aware of self
1.3. Brain Integration Scale
1.3.1. Frontal Brain Coherence
1.3.2. Alpha Relative Power
1.3.3. Brain Preparatory Response
1.4. Psychedelic Experiences
1.4.1. Seratonin System
1.4.1.1. Confidence
1.4.1.2. Relaxation
1.4.1.3. Feeling of personal security
1.5. Effects of Psychedelics
1.5.1. Decreased brain blood flow
1.5.2. Gamma EEG intense experiences
1.5.3. Intense emotional & cognitive content
1.5.4. short circuits natural response
2. Why we do what we do
2.1. Perception
2.1.1. High road (cognitive rational response)
2.1.2. Low road (Emotional response)
2.2. Brain Tags
2.2.1. Threatening
2.2.1.1. amygdala
2.2.2. Positive
2.2.2.1. Nucleus accumbens
2.3. Classical Conditioning
2.4. Operant Conditioning
2.5. Action-Impression-Desire Cycle
2.5.1. Action
2.5.2. Impression
2.5.2.1. Chit
2.5.3. Desire
2.6. Natural Tendency
2.6.1. Gender expression
2.6.2. Sexual orientation
2.6.3. Gender identity
3. Peception- How we see the world
3.1. Stress and how its perceived
3.1.1. Threat
3.1.2. Challenge
3.2. Stress Response
3.2.1. HPA
3.2.1.1. Threat
3.2.1.2. Novel Experiences
3.2.1.3. Meaningful Experiences
3.3. Attention and Perception
3.3.1. Information comes from senses
3.3.2. Blindspot
4. Paradigms
4.1. Low/High Road
4.2. Paradigm Blindness
4.3. Paradigmn-Laden Facts
4.4. John Searle on Consciousness
4.4.1. Conscious states caused by neuronal processes
4.4.2. Conscious states function causally
4.4.3. Consciousness is real and irreducible
4.5. Maharishi-Consciousness is Primary
4.5.1. Sun/reflector/reflection analogy
4.6. Racism and Sexism
4.6.1. Prejudice
4.6.2. Implicit Bias
5. The Evolving Brain
5.1. The brain is dynamic and shaped by experiences
5.2. Brain structure
5.2.1. Grey Matter
5.2.1.1. Neurons
5.2.1.1.1. Dendrites
5.2.1.1.2. Dendritic spines
5.2.1.1.3. Cell body
5.2.1.1.4. Axon
5.2.2. White Matter
5.2.2.1. Astrocytes
5.2.2.2. Microglia
5.2.2.3. Myelin
5.3. Experience Changes the Brain
5.3.1. Neuroplasticity
5.3.2. Arden's FEED Model
5.3.2.1. Focus
5.3.2.2. Effort
5.3.2.3. Effortlessness
5.3.2.4. Determination
6. Sleeping and Dreaming
6.1. Sleep Pressure
6.1.1. Adenosine
6.1.1.1. Sleep dirt
6.2. Circadian rhythms
6.2.1. 24 hours
6.2.2. Neucleus and hypothalamus
6.2.3. Pineal gland
6.3. Sleep cycles
6.3.1. NREM
6.3.2. REM
7. Brain Wave Patterns during Meditation
7.1. EEG
7.1.1. Ions in Interstitial Fluid
7.1.1.1. Sodium and Potassium
7.1.1.2. Chloride
7.1.1.3. Power= amplitude squared
7.1.1.4. Coherence
7.2. Brave Wave Patterns
7.2.1. Alpha
7.2.2. Beta
7.2.3. Gamma
7.3. Brain during Meditation
7.3.1. Domains
7.3.1.1. Body
7.3.1.2. Mind
7.3.1.3. Feelings
7.3.1.4. Self-awareness
7.3.2. Meditation Types
7.3.2.1. Focused Attention (Gamma EEG)
7.3.2.1.1. Qigong
7.3.2.1.2. Vipassana
7.3.2.1.3. Zen
7.3.2.1.4. Compassion (metta)
7.3.2.2. Open Monitoring (Theta EEG)
7.3.2.2.1. Mindfulness
7.3.2.2.2. Zen
7.3.2.3. Automatic Self-Transcending (Frontal Alpha 1)
7.3.2.3.1. TM