The Thalamic Gateway: How the Meditative Training of Attention Evolves toward Selfless Transformations of Consciousness
The Thalamic Gateway: How the Meditative Training of Attention Evolves toward Selfless Transformations of Consciousness
This chapter demonstrates how meditative training of attentiveness can effect a shift toward selfless manifestations of consciousness for the practitioners, and develops an assumption that the meditative training of attention results in a combination of events occurring in the thalamus region of the brain. These thalamic changes result in such a physiological transition that the emphasis on self is erased from the consciousness. The main assumption and its various components represent the study for an academic neurologist. Meditative training of attention has gained popularity as it helps an individual to learn to relax, become calm, and explore their inner intuitive mechanisms through repeated practice. These qualities and mechanisms help the individual to remain alert to any change occurring anywhere in the surrounding environment without making much effort.
Keywords: meditative attention training, selfless manifestations, thalamus, physiological transition, intuitive mechanisms
MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
