A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
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A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
How can you use fire kasina meditation to develop hyperreal imagery? How does this differ from mind's eye imagination?
Vynn and Francis interview fashion designer Jane Flowers, who has developed a hyperphantasic ability using fire kasina meditation.
Jane describes how she developed imagery while doing fire kasina meditation. She talks about the progress from seeing visual snow, to the brain pattern matching it as 3D, to forming plants and rich, controlled shapes. She describes ways to prepare your mind and body for these visualisations.
The difference between Jane's kasina visualisations and normal mind's eye visualisations is explored in detail, including tactile sensation and comparison to reporting on psychedelics.
Prophantasia / hyperphantasia
Timestamps:
00:36 Mask illusion
02:41 Meditation imagery
05:16 2D to 3D
08:11 Kasina visualisations
11:20 Charging up
13:29 Phases of forming visualisations
16:00 Comparison to mind's eye
21:59 Temperature
23:37 Therapeutic benefits, psychedelics
28:03 Implications for reality
32:47 Comparison to prophantasia
Show Links:
* Why Are Transgender People Immune To Optical Illusions? [https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/28/why-are-transgender-people-immune-to-optical-illusions/] - mask illusion blog post by Slate Star Codex
* Kasina Practice, Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddha [https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iii-the-samatha-jhanas/29-kasina-practice/] - instructions in book by Daniel Ingram
* Commentary on the Vimuttimagga [https://firekasina.org/2015/04/03/commentary-on-the-vimuttimagga/] - canon sources on fire kasina visualisations
* Fire Kasina website [https://firekasina.org/]
* Jane's Twitter account [https://twitter.com/itsjaneflowers]
Contact Details:
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Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus]
Email: imagine@flourish.org
Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
Imagine an apple
A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
