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Toby Woods

@tobyjwoods.bsky.social

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Honorary research fellow @Monash. Previously postdoc @ Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, PhD @UniMelb, lawyer @Allens. Science | Philosophy of mind | Meditation | Consciousness | Spontaneous thought/experience

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Big Think @bigthink.com · 27/08/2025

What if there were a drug that allowed us to study consciousness in its most basic form? Christopher Timmermann describes the potential of 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic that strips away everything but awareness. Read the full article here: bigthink.com/neuropsych/5...

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Toby Woods @tobyjwoods.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

How does one do nothing skilfully? Can one get something of this skill in a single 15 min session? Is this first session aversive and difficult, as people commonly find doing nothing, or is it calming and easy? Our new preprint on Do Nothing meditation answers these questions! 🧵 osf.io/8fp6e

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Toby Woods @tobyjwoods.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I spoke to Jack Roycroft-Sherry about my research on contentless experience in meditation and other topics for his podcast: youtu.be/kpxvo3VnaGE

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