The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber

Gary Weber, PhD, discusses how meditation and shutting down the brain's default mode network can reduce self-referential thoughts and suffering.

Studio2012.info & HeartOfArtStudio.com present Non-Dual Couch Series Embracing Stillness - A Dialogue on Non-dual Awakening - Is Everything Pre-determined? - What is "Awakening" & "Enlightenment" in terms of Non-Duality? - Is Time an Illusion? - Ayahuasca, Autism, Aging and the Default Mode Network - Stopping Thoughts, Stopping Time - Psilocybin or Meditation? Are you intrigued by these queries and topics? Join us for a delightful evening immersed in a study of Stillness. A beautiful discussion and meditation on our true purpose as humanity by the humble wisdom of Gary Weber and Rich Doyle (TED talks presenter) youtube.com/watch?v=SOvdVjOtMXg youtube.com/watch?v=TcrOQVTMqmo Reserve Your Seat: embracing-stillness.eventbrite.com/ Gary Weber has a Ph.D. in physical sciences and worked in national labs, industry, and academia in R&D and management. Simultaneously, after over 20,000 hrs of self-inquiry, Zen and yoga, he experienced the falling away of the “I” (ego) and the loss of self-referential thoughts, desires and fears. Since then, he has taught, authored three books, a blog and several articles, and made numerous videos, interviews, and presentations on nonduality, meditation and neuroscience at various conferences and universities world-wide. He has been a subject and/or collaborator in cognitive neuroscience and meditation studies at Baumann Institute, IONS, CSNSC, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. happiness-beyond-thought.com/ Professor Richard Doyle is Liberal Arts Research Professor at Penn State University, where he has taught since 1994. After completing a PhD at UC Berkeley and a post doctoral fellowship at MIT, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and written scholarly books on the effects of information technologies on human evolution and the effects of language on consciousness. Digital Director of Zebrapedia.psu.edu, the online home for Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, Doyle is author of Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants & The Evolution of the Noösphere and the co-author of Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (Non Dual Press, 2015) with Gary Weber.