Consciousness Hacking: What is Mind Training?

Speakers:

• Katherine MacLean, Ph.D. Clinical researcher, guide, & tireless worker at Cosmic Ground Control. At Johns Hopkins University (in the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (!)) her work included psylocibin and personality transformation (and many other studies). She's also an avid mediator. With sooo many yummy interesting talks out there on the interwebs to sip, where to start?: dig in.

• Dr. James Thompson (Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Technical Officer / Founder) at Evoke Neuroscience holds Masters and Doctorate degrees in Kinesiology & Psychophysiology and is certified in electro-encephalography (EEG) with neurofeedback & biofeedback organizations. [see Evoke Neuroscience in Forbes & Military Times!]

Some say that consciousness exists within the human brain. Others argue that the mind is like a field or meadow. Biocentricism (and some Asian philosophies) might compare our minds to a juddered surfboard on waves in the vast sea of consciousness. Sometimes the mind's relationship to the body appears like middle-management in large incorporations of control, where 'mind-training' happens through performance— entrainment, flexibility, lubrication, adaptation—towards an optimized ideal of these apparatuses. The toe, for example, serves in a symphony, a body-without-organs. We usually only notice the toe when its functions stop working 'normally' and red flags alarm. In this example, some 'mind-training' helps to repair and re-optimize in our yearning to return to an ideal 'state'. Often, however, these moments of crisis are also a time of reflection—to change and transform. We may even hear faint whispers & rumors—of deeper (and more subtle) voyages beyond all territories known to Google Maps or to reason itself— towards mysteriously high weirdness and altered states of being. Regardless, our human destination remains the same: death. So then: How may we entrain the mind for this?