Roger Thisdell talks to Brendan about jhana meditation and the transformational experience born of such high state cultivation which suddenly left him with "a mind which represents itself as permanently centreless and without the sense of a singly, positioned epistemic agent." 0:00 Introduction 3:40 Jhana Meditation: An Overview 13:09 The Phenomenology of No "Self" 18:36 The Epistemology and Ontology of No "Self" 24:01 Roger's Story 31:16 Suffering and No "Self" 34:44 The Web vs. the Spider 41:33 Navigating States 49:33 Development: States vs. Stages 53:57 Nonduality 56:00 Jhana: The Ladder That You Throw Away 58:24 The God beyond "God": Beyond I AM 1:09:16 Cessation: Is There Awareness beyond Experience? "Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas" by Leigh Brasington: https://www.amazon.com/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide-Jhanas/dp/1611802695/ Graph source: https://www.suttavada.foundation/brainwave-research/ Comparison of Christian and Buddhist cosmological systems with consideration of their relationship to jhanas (mentioned at 58:24) available here: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/illumination-and-enlightenment www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com

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Had the pleasure to speak with Shawn and Roger about their meditation experiences, thoughts about psychedelics and the models they use to map spiritual progress. Their website: https://meditative.dev/web/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/consciousdevelopment Website: http://www.lauritzm.com/ Donations: https://www.paypal.me/lauritzmq 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:09 - How they got started with meditation 00:09:00 - What's a good vision for the path? 00:14:45 - Their current practices 00:20:00 - What makes the selfless perspective so pleasant 00:24:40 - How the sense of self is constructed 00:31:45 - Models of the path 00:35:30 - The role of emotions and joy in meditation 00:42:30 - Retreats vs. everyday practice 00:50:55 - Low doses of psychedelics and practice 01:04:30 - Projects Shawn and Roger are currently working on 01:19:08 - Jhana practice 01:26:16 - Final thoughts, links and resources

I really enjoyed this conversation with meditation teacher Roger Thisdell. We discuss the manner in which true insights into no-self and the development of phenomenological speed and clarity could effect sports performance and performance generally. We also discuss flow states and how a deep meditative practice may help the athlete drop the ego and enter into flow - and the difference between a flow state and true no-self/centerlessness. Finally, we discuss mental health and performance and how some of our common existential assumptions about the solidity of self and the world could possibly be at the root of suffering when it comes to competition and high pressure performance. Enjoy! #meditation #sports #mentalhealth #performance #philosophy #contemplation #competition

Roger Thisdell is a long time meditator who over the years has managed to increase his baseline of well-being to a level much higher than the norm. Rodger's mind now features a permanent sense of centerlessness where there is a lack of the sense of an epistemic agent at the center. He aims to help others achieve similar well-being, unperturbability, and freedom from suffering. Follow Roger: https://www.rogerthisdell.com/ Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Donations: paypal.me/lucasperry Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1i... ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasFMPerry Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:15 What is suffering? 4:29 What is contraction? 8:12 Why does contraction entail suffering? 9:21 The relationship between truth and freedom 10:58 How do we defabricate experience? 13:57 Rodger’s spiritual path 15:21 Practices for defabricating experience 17:37 What are the stages of awakening 18:34 Different paths to the same thing? 24:23 What’s Rodger’s current experience like? 29:16 There is only negative valence and its attenuation 35:16 Does taking a bunch of MDMA not add positive valence? 37:35 The void at the center of the soul 39:18 Meditation instructions 46:37 How does insight work? 49:56 Insight practice on the sense of separate self 54:57 The will as a way of maintaining separate self 57:55 Cessation, true nature, and neither perception nor non-perception 1:04:35 Practicing the jhanas 1:16:25 Cessation and nirvikalpa samadhi 1:19:47 Is the void preferable to highly defabricated consciousness? 1:24:11 How does this all fit into the 21st century? 1:26:40 Using insights from meditation for architecting new minds 1:28:48 Immoral behavior as a failure to see the truth 1:30:23 Where to follow and find out more about Rodger

Wherein Andrés, Roger, and I discuss indirect realism about perception, the construction of phenomenal time, qualia formalism, exotic phenomenal spacetime in psychedelic and meditative phenomenology, the effects of persistent subject-object nonduality on phenomenal spacetime and hedonic valence, and more! Enjoy! Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick... However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they’re empty, void to whoever sees them appropriately... No substance here is found. - Pheṇa Sutta (SN 22:95): https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN22_95.html Andrés' article on 'The Pseudo-Time Arrow', for reference and further explanation: https://qualiacomputing.com/2018/11/28/the-pseudo-time-arrow-explaining-phenomenal-time-with-implicit-causal-structures-in-networks-of-local-binding/ You can find Roger at: his website, where you can find articles, videos, and more: https://meditative.dev/web/ and associated twitter profile: https://twitter.com/meditative_dev and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309 and on Discord: RogerThis#8351 Andrés can be found blogging at: https://qualiacomputing.com/. Check out QRI at: https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/ and the QRI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1735260376685389 and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/algekalipso I mentor meditation in Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness system. If that or any of my ambling thoughts in long-form are of interest to you, check out my website: https://www.wystantbs.com/ and twitter: https://twitter.com/WystanTBS Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!