My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

You can take kind of a wise perspective from actually the Dalai Lama himself, you know, seems like a qualified individual to have a take and he said basically, you know,

the benefits are so profound for this kind of practice and if there was some sort of electrode that he could implant into his brain to accelerate those benefits to decrease the struggle.

That's involved in meditative practice than he would be the first in line.

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Well folks, I recently read this fastening books called spirit tech, the brave new world of consciousness hacking and enlightenment engineering. It's kind of like the emerging of biohacking technologies and spirituality and this new term called neuro theology and a whole lot more.

It sounds kind of gimmicky at first. I know especially for people who might be used to just like, you know, old school sit down, meditate, read the Bible, pray, you know, whatever your spiritual practice is.

But surprisingly, the use of technology can pretty significantly modify or control or modulate in some manner, the spiritual experience. And you know, I've talked before on the podcast about how there's things like light sound stimulation machines like the brain tap is one that I've used or haptic simulators like the Apollo or the magnetic technologies like the like the happy that will that will shift your body into a brainwave state very similar to what you might experience during meditation.

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