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New beginnings: evidence that the meditational regimen can lead to optimization of perception, attention, cognition, and other functions.

Bushell, William C.·2009·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Abstract

A "framework" is presented for understanding empirically confirmed and unconfirmed phenomena in the Indo-Tibetan meditation system, from an integrative perspective, and providing evidence that certain meditative practices enable meditators to realize the innate human potential to perceive light "at the limits imposed by quantum mechanics," on the level of individual photons. This is part of a larger Buddhist agenda to meditatitively develop perceptual/attentional capacities to achieve penetrating insight into the nature of phenomena. Such capacities may also allow advanced meditators to perceive changes in natural scenes that are "hidden" from persons with "normal" attentional capacities, according to research on "change blindness," and to enhance their visual system functioning akin to high-speed and time-lapse photography, in toto allowing for the perception, as well as sophisticated understanding, of the "moment to moment change or impermanence" universally characteristic of the phenomenal world but normally outside untrained attention and perception according to Buddhist doctrine.

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Authors
Bushell, W. C.
Affiliations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Bushell, William C.
Venue
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2009-08
Volume
1172
Issue
1
Pages
348-361
ISSN
  • 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-6632
OpenAlex
W1977828789
Cited by
12
References
60
Citations by year
2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
1.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
meditation, Buddhist meditation, perception, attention, cognition, change blindness, visual perception, transience, quantum mechanics, perceptual enhancement, integrative framework
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Attention, Buddhism, Cognition, Consciousness, Humans, Perception, Visual Perception, Meditation

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