Dr Sam Harris: Using Meditation to Focus View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind Huberman Lab 105

Course Overview

In Huberman Lab 105, Dr. Sam Harris will be discussing the use of meditation to focus view consciousness and expand one's mind. Sam earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Stanford University and his doctorate (Ph.D.) in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of multiple best-selling books and is a world-renowned public-facing intellectual on meditation, consciousness, free will, psychedelics and neuroscience. He is also the creator of Waking Up and the host of the Making Sense podcast.

In this episode, Sam will discuss meditation as a route to understanding “the self” and experiencing consciousness, not just changing one’s conscious state. He will describe several meditation techniques and their benefits, including how meditation fundamentally changes the worldview and how it can be merged seamlessly into daily life. It can help the course overcome universal challenges such as distractibility and persistent, internal dialogue (“chatter”) to allow for deep contentment and pervasive shifts in the awareness, all while acknowledging the more immediate stress-lowering and memory-improving effects of meditation. He will also discuss the therapeutic use of psychedelics and the mechanistic similarities between the benefits of a psychedelic journey and long-term meditation practices. Lastly, he will discuss the rationale behind his recent decision to close his social media (Twitter) account.

This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about the higher order functions of the brain, the brain-body connection, consciousness and, of course, meditation and why and how to meditate for maximum benefit.

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Huberman Lab 105 invites guests to join Dr. Sam Harris in a discussion about using meditation to focus view consciousness and expand one's mind. Sam will describe several meditation techniques and their benefits, including how meditation fundamentally changes the worldview and how it can be merged seamlessly into daily life. He will also discuss the therapeutic use of psychedelics and the mechanistic similarities between the benefits of a psychedelic journey and long-term meditation practices. Lastly, he will discuss the rationale behind his recent decision to close his social media (Twitter) account. This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about the higher order functions of the brain, the brain-body connection, consciousness and, of course, meditation and why and how to meditate for maximum benefit.