Thanks, one thing I didn’t quite understand in the post is Why making the attention more regular through diaghramatic breathing causes 2nd and 3rd nen to stop being produced (if indeed those two things are linked).
Does Sekida have a framework for why the other nen fall away?
To my mind jumps immidietly an explanation that higher tier nens need for the lower tier tiers to exist when they are formed. If the low tier nens are sproadic the “fertiliness” for higher tier nens stays constant. If they happen sycnhronised when they are plentiful they will overwhem the capability and skill to make higher nens and when they have all faded away simultanouesly they will starve high nen formation for having nothing to refer to.
Thinking this little bit over it also explains what kind of good is produced if the synronization state is actually pretty simple. Once you renable higher nen formation but have low amount of base nen to build from you are more likely to build every possible higher nen. In addition ordinarily it might be possible that the 3-nens are possible to form when 2-nens are active but have been on their way out for a long time already and the underlying nen-1s are already non-existent. Making the nen hierachy build fast might allow to have the nen-1 still around when highest nens form (ordinarily you can have a sensation or be aware that it happened but by shuffling things you can have the sensation and be aware of it, a type of lucid-wakedness).
As I recall he does make reference in the text that meditation decreases alpha waves and increases theta waves, but I’m not sure at the time there was any principled reason to think that was meaningful so if he’s right it was in the absence of a model for why it would work.
My best guess though is that the theory of connecting specific harmonic waves might offer an explanation, but I think ultimately we really need better neuroscience to figure this out.
Thanks, one thing I didn’t quite understand in the post is Why making the attention more regular through diaghramatic breathing causes 2nd and 3rd nen to stop being produced (if indeed those two things are linked).
Does Sekida have a framework for why the other nen fall away?
To my mind jumps immidietly an explanation that higher tier nens need for the lower tier tiers to exist when they are formed. If the low tier nens are sproadic the “fertiliness” for higher tier nens stays constant. If they happen sycnhronised when they are plentiful they will overwhem the capability and skill to make higher nens and when they have all faded away simultanouesly they will starve high nen formation for having nothing to refer to.
Thinking this little bit over it also explains what kind of good is produced if the synronization state is actually pretty simple. Once you renable higher nen formation but have low amount of base nen to build from you are more likely to build every possible higher nen. In addition ordinarily it might be possible that the 3-nens are possible to form when 2-nens are active but have been on their way out for a long time already and the underlying nen-1s are already non-existent. Making the nen hierachy build fast might allow to have the nen-1 still around when highest nens form (ordinarily you can have a sensation or be aware that it happened but by shuffling things you can have the sensation and be aware of it, a type of lucid-wakedness).
He doesn’t really.
As I recall he does make reference in the text that meditation decreases alpha waves and increases theta waves, but I’m not sure at the time there was any principled reason to think that was meaningful so if he’s right it was in the absence of a model for why it would work.
My best guess though is that the theory of connecting specific harmonic waves might offer an explanation, but I think ultimately we really need better neuroscience to figure this out.