evocative as a smell

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nobody knows exactly

"When I looked at the cardiac arrest literature, it became clear that it's after the heart stops and blood flow into the brain ceases. There's no blood flow into the brain, no activity, about 10 seconds after the heart stops. When doctors start to do CPR, they still can't get enough blood into the brain. It remains flatlined. That's the physiology of people who've died or are receiving CPR.

Not just my study, but four others, all demonstrated the same thing: people have memories and recollections. Combined with anecdotal reports from all over the world, from people who see things accurately and remember them, it suggests this needs to be studied in more detail."

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concentration and indistractability

"In traditional Theravadin Buddhism, there’s this thing called the Eightfold Path. It is the process by which we abandon the fetters, those pesky things that lead us to regular encounters with dissatisfaction in life. The last part of that, samatha, is two meditative practices: one focused on a wide awareness, the other on a singular awareness. Today, we see references to the first of those as insight, or vipassana, or satipatthana, the four foundations of mindfulness, probably the most recognized term in Western culture thanks to the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. And for many people, things end there, without much attending to the eighth part of the path, the focusing of attention on one object to a degree of concentration and indistractability called jhana."

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no ordinary street snaps

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