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Claudio Naranjo’s contribution to meditation in the light of neuropsychology

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In this article, the authors illustrate Claudio Naranjo's approach to meditation from the point of view of modern cognitive neuroscience and psychology by describing the main forms of meditation and the psychological and neurobiological effects of mindfulness meditation.
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This contribution aims to illustrate Claudio Naranjo's approach to meditation from the point of view of modern cognitive neuroscience and psychology. After a short historical introduction on meditation, we briefly describe the main forms of meditation and the psychological and neurobiological effects of mindfulness meditation. The contribution continues with a description of the characteristics of meditation in pairs and with music and with a discussion of the relationship between meditation and personality, within and beyond the psychology of the enneagram. Claudio Naranjo's ideas about the role of meditation in personal growth are also discussed.

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Time is the key Music and Altered States of Consciusness

Jörg Fachner
TL;DR: In this paper, Fachner et al. describe the key Music and Altered States of Consciusness (MSC) of the JYX repository collection and present a collection of time-sensitive music and their corresponding states.
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Spontaneous eye movements during focused-attention mindfulness meditation.

TL;DR: The results show a significantly smaller average amplitude of eye movements in the delta band during mindfulness meditation than instructed mind-wandering, and participants’ meditation expertise correlated significantly with this average amplitude during both tasks, suggesting the potential use of this measure to detect mind-Wandering episodes during mindfulness Meditation and to assess meditation performance.
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The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the subjective experience of infants and discuss the four senses of self: the sense of an emergent self, the self-awareness of a core self, self versus other, self with other, and the self awareness of a subjective self.
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