People who practice intensive meditation report memories of states in which their sense of self dissolves. Is this at all possible? Psychoactive substances or meditation can trigger an experience that ...

There’s nothing more self-focused than sitting on a pillow and attentively clearing the mind. So is it really a surprise that meditators might be self-centered? No. A new paper by University of ...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a Yale study published on Feb. 12 investigated the brain regions that may help us wish others well. To explore the neural foundation of this type of feeling, ...

Psychoactive substances or meditation can trigger an experience that the self dissolves and is no longer present. The philosophers Dr. Raphael Millière from Columbia University New York and Professor ...