Meditators can switch off their consciousness on demand, new study reveals

'Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream,' The Beatles sang. Turns out, experienced meditators can do just that according to a new scientific study. Researchers used EEG to measure brain activity of experienced Tibetan Buddhist meditators and determined that they could 'voluntarily induce unconscious states, known as cessations.' — Read the rest
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