Most people spend decades meditating in pursuit of enlightenment. In Zen, satori, the sudden shift described as seeing into your own nature, is traditionally held to be rare and hard-won. Jos Daniel says his arrived in six days. No monastery, no decades on a cushion. In this session he tells that story plainly: what the six days actually looked like, the shift itself, and what stayed changed after. Then he does what an engineer does with a story like this. He walks through what the EEG literature can and cannot say about sudden insight states, where the traditional maps of samadhi and satori come from, and why the traditions themselves warn against ranking these states at all. Come for the story. Leave knowing exactly which parts of it anyone could measure, and which parts no one can
Jos Daniel spent a decade creating visual effects for Hollywood before founding Rinnovare Labs™ and Marziani. His consciousness research library, from brainwaves to meditation and sound, is at rinnovarelabs.com. Seats are free with a Saturday Day Pass. Also presenting Biophotonic Light & Sound this weekend, and visit booth M64 and Newport C to try the light panel and sound system between sessions.