Meditation and psychedelics have been increasingly implemented in combination within clinical and nonclinical research settings. This trend reflects rich and independent histories of their usage for p...

Learn about the core Buddhist concept of emptiness from three different points of view in this virtual event with Tricycle.

YouTube video by The Field Meditation

At the Tom Tom Festival, faculty and leaders will weigh the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence for the future of work.

An 10-week course exploring the relationship between embodied experience and dark retreat. Through breathwork, gentle yoga, and interoceptive attention, we work with three primordial spaces of the inn...

At this critical moment, when human consciousness and emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being shaped and adapted symbiotically, this research initiative organizes interdisciplinary expertise t...

Researchers wonder whether the dreaming state might be doing more than you realize.

Special guest Michael Sheehy joins Eve for a practice and a conversation on the science and experience of non-dual awareness.

This workshop explores imagination/the mind across the thresholds of sleeping, dreaming, and waking in Tibetan Buddhist contemplation.

The CSC research team seeks adults aged 18-70 to participate in a study exploring contemplative experiences in Virtual Reality (VR), sleep health, and cognitive flexibility.

A gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.

YouTube video by Mathematical Consciousness Science

You can slay the distraction monster. But you’re going to have to work on it.

Join us for SENSEmaking, a two-day public symposium exploring contemplative practices, immersive technology, and the senses. The symposium is an incubator of ideas and experiences designed to catalyze...

This trialogue continues a series of discussion exploring the latest interdisciplinary research into tantric completion stage practices such as yogas of dream, sleep, and death.

Podcast Episode · Guru Viking Podcast · 05/09/2025 · 1h 32m

When I was a child, I was introduced to contemplative practices that changed my life. Starting in the fourth grade, I regularly walked to my grandmother’s house after school. I vividly recall walking ...

June 11th | 6 - 8 pmContemplative Commons, 403 Emmet Street S.Meditation is getting a firmware update. In this delightfully mind-bending session, a contemplative sciences scholar, a tech-savvy invento...

Sotheby’s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha’s remains, denounced as perpetuating colonial violence

Tue 29th Apr 2025, 1pm – 3pm EDT (UTC -04:00)

What is contemplation? How do different contemplative traditions – religious and secular, historical and modern – understand practices and experiences of contemplation? Given the incredible diversity ...

Apply for Postdoctoral Research Associate, Contemplative Research Fellow in Cognitive Science job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at Univer...

Michael Sheehy is Research Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center at University of Virginia where he is Principal at CIRCL Contemplative Innovation + Researc...