Monday, December 07, 2009

Enlightenment, DP/DR & Falling Into the Pit of the Void - Shinzen Young

I found this video at Enlightenment Ward.

Just the other day, Jami and I were talking about how pre-personal states and transpersonal states look so similar that there might be similar brain areas involved in both. We also talked about how depersonalization might easily be confused with enlightenment by those unfamiliar with both states and the theoretical underpinnings of how they differ.

This video from Shinzen Young looks at the issue.
Shinzen talks about the empowering facets of enlightenment and compares this to "enlightenment's evil twin" DP/DR. He talks about the rare occasions that he's encountered a meditator moving in the direction of DP/DR and the strategy he used to "cure" it using mindfulness methods. Filmed in Nov. 2009 at Mt. Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls.





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