Revealing Nirodha Samapatti (youtube), a deep or even non-state analogous to flatlining that few practitioners have mastered.
Special guests Delson Armstrong and Dr Ruben Laukkonen discuss their latest ground-breaking paper ‘Cessations of consciousness in meditation: Advancing a scientific understanding of nirodha samāpatti’ in which Delson Armstrong’s ability to enter the rarefied state of nirodha samāpatti, a feat of extended cessation achievable by only the most virtuoso meditators, was tested by Dr Laukkonen and Prof. Slagter's neuroscience team with astonishing results.
Delson has been measured entering these states for minutes in the lab, but claims to have been in this state once for six days straight, a claim that would imply a type of human hibernation.
