Can ordinary people reach higher states of consciousness?
According to tradition
Meditation can trigger an unknown force in the human body, thought to allow access to higher states of consciousness.
According to science
No such force exists.
I wanted to separate
fact from fiction
What would happen if I lived
like a monk, monitoring my neurophysiological profile
along the way?
This is the true story of
what happened
“A data-driven dive down the
spiritual rabbit-hole.”
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THE METRICS
With researchers at UCSF and UC Davis, I collected and analyzed over 5,000 unique data points including blood samples, MRI and EEG.
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THE METHOD
Following an obscure Taoist text, I gave up alcohol, coffee, and sex, and meditated for an hour a day.
The Method >>
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THE MYSTERY
The otherworldly effects of the regimen launched me on a quest to understand the science of spirituality and answer the question: What on Earth was happening to me?
FEATURING
Helané Wabeh
Research Director
Institute for Noetic Sciences
Bob Roth
Executive Director
David Lynch Foundation
Joan Harrigan
Director
PKYC
David Vago
Neuroscience
Vanderbilt University
Sir James Mallinson
Indologist
SOAS London
Philip St. Romain
Contemplative Ministries
David Zeigler
Neuroscape Lab
UCSF
Seth Powell
Founder
Yogic Studies
Bonnie Greenwell
Transpersonal Therapist
Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett
Cal Poly University
Mike Molina
Emerging Sciences Foundation
Scott Hiegel
Himself
Jason Staiger
Himself
J.J. Semple
Himself
Myrna Filman
Herself
Mina Mann
Herself
CREW
Duncan Carroll
Director
Duncan's interest in meditation began when he had an out-of-body experience at age 18. Since then he's been determined to apply the scientific method to the investigation of spiritual phenomena. In 2015 he paired up with Only Human Films to begin work on Super Meditate Me.
SPECIAL THANKS:
Marc Vaccaro, Ben Solnik, Rich & Nancy Carroll, Stephen Austin, Megan Koehler, The Fiehn Lab at UC Davis, Neuroscape Lab at UCSF, The Institute for Consciousness Research, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Science & Nonduality Conference, Paul & Dale Pond, Mike Bradford, Teri Degler, Mike & Linda Molina, Gene Keiffer, Dr. Maria Samsonov, Lasse Järvi, Dan Lindsay, Melissa Neidich, Amanda Micheli, Penny Kelly, Mark Harrison, Eric Wright, Stuart Sovatsky, Segyu Rinpoche, Gary Kraftsow, Stuart Perrin, Louis Komjathy, Shamini Jain, Indre Viskontas, SkeptiCal, Daniel Kottke, Kris "Thrash" Weston, and Gopi Krishna.
Josh Izenberg
Cinematographer
Josh Izenberg is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer, whose debut documentary, SLOMO (2013) premiered as a New York Times Op-Doc, won over a dozen awards, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
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