The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber 

Mind-blowing. Should say brain-blowing. Gary is amazing. He's like Science Ramana.

Non dual teachers need to have an fMRI certification on their pages now that we can actually map enlightenment in the brain. This is nobel prize winning type of discovery, perhaps most important discovery of mankind.. the meeting point of science and religion in an age where we are near self destruction. And somehow it only has 25k views and hardly anyone is even talking about it?? Am I insane??

We don’t think our thoughts, our thoughts think us!

Excellent presentation! Science is slowly acquiring the technology (tools) to prove what the ancient, and contemporary, Sages have been "Pointing" to forever. Thank you! 🙏 ❤️

I did Ayahuasca 2 years ago nearly now I went from Belfast to Preu it was a scary experience but amazing I also did dmt and I felt like I was in heaven ❤ looking for my dad who committed suicide

"Gary". Mesmerized!

I love this bassicly explaining the benefits of practicing Buddhist philosophy and meditating in a scientific way

So fascinating!!

This a great intro for rational minded folk into meditation. Saving this one

this is freaking GOLD!!!!!!

Love all the comments from the "superior ones" who are already "egoless".... :)

The default Netwerk just goes along with the ego, so you can really connect these concepts across disciplines

enjoyed very much- thank you!

Really interesting stuff. I love how science is revealing what's happening in the brain in relation to different states of consciousness. This is the merging of science with mysticism.

I can relate to a lot of what he said i too have meditated and no longer have a default mode network I see myself only as a part of the infinite i do notice my self referential thoughts come back to me only when I have had little sleep, low blood sugar or a severe hangover

I can 100% remember my thoughts and feelings and what I did at 9:11!!!

This is the first non-dual or whatever you call it person that said low blood sugar affects their thoughts of me. I have always noticed i get more insane than normal when i get low blood sugar and i get it a lot unless i am careful what i eat. thanks!

This wonderful video happened along by accident lol.. This incredible video is just what the doctor ordered today.. Every moment of 'seek' was perfectly laid out for my feet to follow.. I counted 50 years in my present memory with every second necessary and helpful.. It is all preparation for the big beautiful 'let-down'.. Thank you :)

I thought that thoughts will always be there, just that one can break identification with them. Apparently, according to Gary, and many others I now realize, they can disappear.. Interesting.

28:59 shuts down just like meditation

great intro

28:40 This explains a lot about how the great Indian mathematician Ramanujan "received" his proofs and theories. The genius and capabilities of Ramanujan were such that they could not be due to mental powers, because the intellect moves very slowly, thinking takes time, but Ramanujan didn't take any time in responding to Hardy's questions. No sooner was the problem written down on the blackboard or put to him verbally than Ramanujan began to reply, without any time gap for thinking. It was very difficult for great mathematicians to understand how it happened. A problem which would take about six hours for an eminent mathematician to solve - and then too he was not sure about being right - Ramanujan solved instantaneously, unerringly. It proved that Ramanujan was not replying through the medium of the mind. He was not very learned, he had actually failed in matriculation; there was no other sign of intellectual ability, but in connection with mathematics he was superhuman. Something happened that was beyond the human mind.

28:00 to 29:00 just blew my mind

I think a lot about the colors of things, the way photons split and bounce around to make colors...I suppose perceived by me eventually. I notice birds, insects, other things in the present moment much of the time.

What's the music intro ? I would like to listen to the full version.

I can’t wait until neurofeedback is normal for everyone to get. So hard to find any info on my scans 😅

Fascinating topic. Thanks a lot for sharing this! Anyone has experience with consumer-type EEG devices like the Muse for meditation? Seems promising on paper and after reading reviews. Feedback welcome.

I've had dreams where something in the dream genuinely surprised me, like it was completely unpredictable. How can my own thought surprise me if I'm coming up with it?

My thoughts seem to be a response to stimuli of various sorts, conscious and unconscious. Often existential, often internal.

He underestimates the I. We do think of what we say it's just happening faster than we recognize. Our individual I is our central nervous system. The I is local to our own flesh and bone only. No organism defragments itself to find the I. The personal body/mind is the whole unit. It's like trying to prove you can't find you in your foot. Your foot is part of you. It's not anything other than another local sense to the self. If certain things are missing or fouled up in your system, you'll percieve your world different. However...it's still you. This is you...a whole. Wherever you go,there you are. Also I don't change like he says. I just only show sides of me to different people. We hold back.Omit certain things to other humans. We are all complete...just discreet:)

What do I do ?????

Gary, is it a stretch to say that the default mode network is the seat of the ego? Thank you again for your valuable work.

Hi Gary, I had my own experience of release in 2008 ... then in 2009 I became T1 diabetic and that seemed to somehow bring the sense of suffering back in a way. You're the first person I see that includes blood sugar as a factor that affects the awakened state. When I have hypoglycemia I've notice a tendency to self contract. I guess is a primitive self preservation mechanism. I've been practicing through the years and seem to be able to navigate it better (i.e I've learned to let go more and more as it happens). Could you offer some advice on this regard?

I wish people would be more detailed and specific about what they mean by “blah blah” and in the now. Or what “thoughts” are or inner dialogue? People act like everyone knows what it means but to be honest I have no idea what they are talking about. When I take LSD, AYAHUASCA, Psilocybin etc. I have an expansion of consciousness into spacetime and feel more normal. My sense of meaning similarly expands to include things with less survival relevance, but I have never hallucinated. I took MDMA and it was the pure crystal stuff people were raving about (literally, lol) and it just felt like a more intense version of how I NORMALLY FEEL. that feeling to me is more important to enlightenment than the LSD alone. When I do LSD the main effect is that my here and now ideas about the present are what fall away and I become timeless. Like I perceive back to the beginning of time. Once with Ayahuasca causality reverses and I saw the causes in the future and it was logically linked to past occurrences. This still happens if I pay attention and am calm. The way I see it is in synchronicities on a large scale. That’s the only way to describe it. However, I have never had an experience of the normal narrative of blah blah near as I can tell. However I did have an event that happened when I was just over 1 year old-when the self is forming. I almost died from lack of oxygen. My parents had the new neighbors escort them to the hospital emergency room. However I experienced it as an NDE ! I was floating 30 feet or more above the cars and watched them turn into the hospital. So I always felt like an alien, and I literally could not stand to be around normal people because of how they acted. It was like they were insane just acting in the way normal kids act I now know. But the more I learn about nonduality, the more I realize that I think I was at the 10,000 hour yogi level when I was 4 years old. Not even joking. I made up a mantra to clear my mind not of an inner narrative but to try to stop the unity of myself with others which scared me and stressed me out so much because I thought if anyone realized what I was like and what I was doing they might hate or even kill me. This was when I was 4 years old. My mantra was “that there:there that” and what I did by saying that was go underground. I had a fantasy underground world I lived in too. Anyway I used to think that I was an alien left on Earth by accident. I saw a different world than most people. I didn’t see a division between myself and others and what was painful was seeing and feeling all the pain and darkness around me. I used to have blinding migraines where I would throw up when I was a little kid. My brothers didn’t see. I was totally alone, but I brought home dogs and animals until my mom kept making me get rid of them. One day I caught a bunch of snakes and brought them home all proud and to me they were so cute and wonderful but my mom lost her mind and screamed like she was dying and chased me out of the house. I loved all the animals and she screamed again when I brought home a field mouse, but it was so cute I couldn’t believe she did that. Then I brought home eggs left behind in a field they mowed by the house and that she let me keep. I hatched them and they were mallard ducks! We raised them and taught them to fly. Anyway, I have always had an affinity for animals too and they do unusual things around me. So if anyone has any info or ideas about NDE or OBE effects on this stuff please let me know. I have never thought in words, and it just sounds strange. How can you even think using words?? I go over what I am going to say because I am so different and I used to think this is what people meant by the inner dialogue but when people give examples I am just bewildered because I have never done that. As an undergrad I once told my professor that I didn’t have an ego because I didn’t have a personal self/important combativeness I always found painful in others... before I knew about any of this stuff. Seriously I am a mutant. Not even kidding. Any info or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

It is a shame that he was talking to a room of what I guess to be other researchers in the field who followed the jargon more closely. As a simple zoologist I only followed a portion of what he said (on my first viewing). It is interesting to see a worker in this field with this type of realization or self awareness. I wonder to what extent the ability to achieve this is hard wired into practitioners.

8:15 memories are non local, they're across the brain in a number of places depending on content

Gary needs long beard and hair and a wizard hat. Just saying...🥰

Do you have theta waves or something in the background to help us remember this?

Our emotional pain is the best psychedelic. I wonder how could we get out of our bodies without dying. I have physical pain on different parts of my body, it makes me need to leave my body but I don’t want to die.

"I have overcome my blah-blah..."

I disagree with the “I” constantly changing. My personality and expression changes. Such as if I am talking to a child versus work. But my I is solid. I always have the same sense of self. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are saying? Thanks

SO WHAT DO WE DO ?

Meditation doesn’t work for me, and in here it seems that meditation is needed. Nevertheless, a couple of glimpses where the sense of I was gone happened, all this without a single meditation session. For a long time I thought I was special because of my spontaneous awakening, I never did anything to elicit this, but recently I learned that there are different ways to start an “spontaneous” awakening, and listening to binaural beats was my portal. At the time I was suffering from back pain after a fall and had to see my chiropractor 3x a week, and I listened to binaural beats to cope with the pain, little did I know it was going to change my life.

maybe it just me.... but it seems like i can hear the intro sound, just barely audibly through out the video.

MInds games eh? What is that all about?

Why does Antonio Damasio And it’s pronounced DamaZio not merit having his whole named mention? And he’s Portuguese which is another thing that never gets mentioned ..and yes it is important .

I love how the brain doesn't lie .... I think it may be just about the only thing lol... but what about Psychedelics and sex lol... Sounds like a real trip 😂😂😂😂

The problem was solved in me but hey, let me take the credit :)

I see says the blind man. Seems the brain likes blindness and silence.

Instead of wasting time on theory, learn to sit quietly in a room and meditate. That will decrease your suffering!

I think before we connect the brain to the internet (neuro link) we first have to stop the blah blah.

Watch out for cute cat videos they target the network

I´m all for getting rid of blah-blah. The "I" can be conceptualized in many ways - and none of them is absolutely correct. When we say "I", we don´t refer to some point in the brain. We refer to the subjectively experienced mind/body as a whole. Or some part(s) of it, BUT it´s always subjectively experienced, unlike some point in the brain. So, saying, that because the "I" don´t have any specific one correlative point in the brain, it doesn´t exist; is like saying that anything we refer to with words doesn´t exist. It can be said, yes. But it´s just one way of talking of things, and not necessarily the most sound one from the subjective point of view. Or another possibility is, that when we say "I" we refer to the awareness, and/or the presence, in which the mind-body-phenomenon takes place. Anyways, it´s always something subjectively experienced:) Just saying.

Here is the easiest fastest route calm peace of mind.....repeat this simple phrase, "I love you Father in Heaven" In nearly all situations people receive negative feelings....moderate the statement to something like, "I don't know you but from what i have heard you love me. so, I am trying to love you even through I do not see or have any sense experience of you Father in Heaven.

gee, this is making me wonder if it would be better to never say anything

where and what is a brain? lol unlearn all you ever been told... start again!

the tone on the background is awful, could not listen

Cosmonaut 34:02 just has to be @MichaelTaft108