Our Future of Meditation Research course brings you a series of recorded presentations from leading meditation researchers that will teach and train learners to conduct meditation research with an expanded set of domains, concepts, and protocols.
This course is a component of the Future of Meditation Research project. Led by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a task force of meditation researchers and teachers developed recommendations for expanding the current meditation research field to include important yet often neglected topics, including experiences of oneness and interconnectedness; samadhis and siddhis; shakti and kundalini energies; karma, past-life recall and reincarnation experiences; visions, synchronicities, precognition, extra-sensory perception; experiences of God, deities, and other non-physical entities.
Some researchers view some of the topics reviewed in this course as not being amenable to scientific investigation, or inherently “unscientific.” We disagree. While some of these domains are unconventional and potentially controversial, they are common, important to people, and can be subjected to rigorous scientific investigation.
These arenas represent largely uncharted scientific terrain and provide excellent opportunities for both new and experienced researchers. In this course, over 20 leading scientists in the field of meditation research provide suggestions for future directions, and further reading and resources for deeper exploration.
Cassandra Vieten is Executive Director of the 
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and a Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is coauthor EEG Lab, the most used EEG analysis software in the world. He is a long-term Zen meditator, and has taught in India on the neural correlates of conscious experience in a Master’s degree program for the Birla Institute of Technology.
