How Meditation Can Change You — and the World

Learn and explore how science is confirming and affirming the ancient science of meditation.

Scientific study of meditation has exploded in the last two decades. There has been study after study of the health and wellbeing benefits of meditation. And now there is also a much deeper understanding of what actually happens physiologically (transforming our entire body chemistry cellularly & systemically), neurologically (restructuring & rewiring the brain), metabolically, genetically (activating positive genes & deactivates negative genes), energetically, and quantum physically.

Science is now also able to confirm the reality of the more subtle experiences of your meditation with Quantum neuroscience, String Theory, Entanglement, and The Holographic Principle.

You’ll hear all about it in this symposium, where we’re diving deep in the science behind meditation. The recording of the symposium is now available for you.

Online Symposium

Symposium Schedule

Day 1 - Moderated Panel Discussion with all presenters

Day 2 - Individual Speakers, and Q&A with all presenters

Quantum Neuroscience: How Your Brain Gets Its Self, Mind, and Emotions, and How It Can Create Supramental Intelligence with Dr. Amit Goswami

You have Two Bodies: One is a Holographic Projection, the Other is Full of Bliss with Joseph Selbie

Meditation and Medicine with Dr. Shanti Rubenstone

Pranayama: The Art and Science of Energy Control with Nayaswami Gyandev

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Engineered for Divinity: How the Brain and Body are Transformed through Meditation and Spiritual Practices with Dr. Peter Van Houten

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Excerpt from the Series: Engineered for Divinity

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Dr. Amit Goswami

Dr. Amit Goswami, Theoretical Quantum Physicist

How Your Brain Gets Its Self, Mind, and Emotions, and How It Can Create Supramental Intelligence

Amit will present the quantum theory of the brain’s self, mind, and emotions and present experimental data of current neuroscience in verification. Quantum neuroscience explains the development of our human condition: a simple hierarchy of the ego and me-centeredness, negative emotional brain circuits, and addiction to pleasure, but which also endows us with quantum potentialities to actualize and improve the human condition toward more happiness and more intelligence. Amit will talk about creativity and the brain’s neuroplasticity with which you can create even supramental intelligence if you so choose.

Puru Selbie

Joseph Selbie, Author and Presenter

One is a Holographic Projection, the Other is Full of Bliss

According to the saints, sages, and near-death experiencers, even at this moment, we live simultaneously in two bodies—a physical body and an interpenetrating astral body—and that the physical body is a manifestation of the astral energy body. We find confirmation for this in physics. According to string theory, even at this moment, we exist simultaneously in two realms—the three dimensional physical universe and an interpenetrating two-dimensional energy-verse—and that the physical universe is a holographic projection originating from the energy-verse.

Understanding how our two bodies interact and the two realms in which they exist can help us on so many levels:

  • Physical—your health and is an expression of the state of your energy body. Change your energy body and through the meditational bridge of quantum entanglement your physical body conforms instantaneously.
  • Emotional—your feelings are essentially subtle astral energies moving through your astral body. Through pranayama, positive thinking, and meditative centering you can direct the movement of emotional energy to your highest feelings.
  • Mental—your thoughts shape your energy body which in turn shapes your physical body, and meditation helps you shape your thoughts
  • Spiritual—your energy body is essentially perfect. In meditation you shift from sensory awareness to inner awareness and experience your perfection as bliss.
Dr. Shanti Rubenstone

Dr. Shanti Rubenstone, M.D., Transformational Medicine

For literally thousands of years great spiritual teachers of all religions have proclaimed that meditation is the way to optimal health of body, mind, and soul. These ‘anecdotal’ reports were not sufficient for the scientists, and questions regarding meditation went unanswered. For the past 15 years or so the medical profession itself, along with great scientists in many areas, have been asking questions regarding meditation and its possible use as a treatment modality for various conditions. Now, scientific evidence from well-designed studies—including images of the brain—is emerging. Some of these studies suggest that meditating for as little as 20 minutes daily can affect the function and structure of the brain in a positive way and that meditating for even short periods daily can have profound effects on many and varied medical and psychiatric conditions. In this session, Dr. Shanti Rubenstone, Stanford Medical School graduate, Educator, and practicing Internist, as well as long time meditator, will present some of the most recent evidence regarding meditation and physical and emotional health and well-being.
Dr. Peter Van Houten

Dr. Peter Van Houten, M.D, Yoga Therapy

How the Brain and Body are Transformed through Meditation and Spiritual Practices

 

Who do you want to be in 6 months? Whether we intend to or not we will be different six months from now. Your brain and body constantly change over time and we understand now that we can influence how we will develop. Since the early 1980s the scientific community has understood that the brain is incredibly plastic and re-programmable. Since then, there has been a broader understanding that significant permanent personal transformation is a real possibility.

Meditation and spiritual practices have been extensively studied and have been proven to bring about specific significant changes in the brain and body, some of which are permanent. We will review how brain structure and function are changed by meditation practices over time. We will discuss the specific parts of the brain that are transformed in this process. Much has been discerned about different types of meditation and their effects on the nervous system as well as the amount one needs to meditate to bring about significant changes in brain and behavior.

We will also review the new science of epigenetics and how our genetic material can be modified by meditation and lifestyle. This transformed genetic material can be passed on to our offspring in this new state. Lastly we will look at our recent understanding of the interplay between the body’s microbiome and our nervous system function and how spiritual practices may affect this.

Nayaswami Gyandev

Nayaswami Gyandev

The Art and Science of Energy Control   Although commonly understood to be breathing techniques, pranayama encompasses a broad spectrum of practices designed to help you control prana (life force, energy), and through that improve your health on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Contemporary research is confirming many of the beneficial effects that the greater science of Yoga has long claimed for pranayama practices — and my own empirical research over more than 30 years of teaching has confirmed even more of those claims. In this presentation, you will explore some of these ideas and discover practical ways to use them in daily life. You’ll also be introduced to the subtle art of pranayama practice, and how it requires going beyond mere control of the breath or body. You’ll learn how simple pranayama techniques can be a boon to your meditation practice. And of course: you’ll practice a bit of pranayama!