What it is, how beginners can get a taste, the dangers of striving, and whether tech can make it easier.

Dr. Matthew D. Sacchet, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General). Since 2012, he has authored more than 120 publications, presented more than 150 times at international, national, regional and local conferences and speaker series, and been cited more than 8,000 times.

In this episode we talk about:

What Matthew's learning about advanced states of meditation, and what they do to the brain
What relevance advanced meditation might have for the rest of us
How we might get a taste of these states ourselves
Whether technology might ultimately help some of us advance more quickly
The psychological risks of practicing deep end meditation

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