Vipassana Meditation
This is a form of meditation that is accessible across the world at dhamma.org. Vipassana meditation has been talked about in the popular media. Here are some quick glimpses.
Author Yuval Noah Harari has discussed Vipassana meditation.
The documentary film Doing Time Doing Vipassana explores the experience of prison inmates in Tihar and their transformation after engaging with their own minds through Vipassana.
A similar documentary was also made in the United States titled Dhamma Brothers focusing on inmates of a maximum security prison. Here is the trailer.
The Neuroscience of Emotion
Prof. Antonio Damasio’s work Descarte’s Error is a deep glimpse into advances in our understanding of the neuroscience of emotion. The Iowa-Gambling Task is cited in Damasio’s research as a way of studying the skin conductance responses when making decisions.
The talk below gives a glimpse on my mapping work with skin conductance: