Ep130: Awakened Scientist - Dr Jay Sanguinetti 2
In this interview I am once again joined by Dr Jay Sanguinetti, Research Professor at the University of Arizona and co-director of the SEMA Lab with Shinzen Young.
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In this episode, Dr Sanguinetti reveals his personal secrets for optimal brain function and cognitive high performance that enable him to perform at his intellectual best.
Jay also gives us deep dive phenomenological reports of accessing boundary-less states of meditation, experiencing the unraveling of his self identification, and how self-administered brain stimulation in tandem with Dr Jeffrey Martin’s Finder’s Course and close 1-1 coaching with Shinzen Young radically expedited these processes.
Jay also shares how his spiritual epiphanies have transformed his communication strategies with his staff and mentees, and explains the power of vulnerability in optimising decision making.
Topics include:
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - How Jay optimises his mental function
05:25 - Jay’s current meditation approach
08:59 - Working 1-1 with Shinzen
09:53 - A state without boundaries and Jay’s jhana practice
12:15 - Dr Jeffrey A Martin and the ‘Finder’s Course’
19:18 - Jay’s transformative experience on the Finder’s Course
20:33 - Falling into the void
23:11 - Using brain stimulation on himself
27:52 - Fear of dissolution
29:44 - Jay’s changing practice motivations from is 20s to 30s
31:40 - Identifying with enlightenment
38:06 - Unravelling the self-identification process
43:47 - The exponential happiness curve and further ultrasound
48:55 - Transformed relationships
49:54 - Shinzen’s ongoing coaching and correspondences to traditional maps
53:37 - Jay’s key spiritual insight
01:00:13 - Defining ‘equanimity’ and is ‘vulnerability’ a weakness?
01:06:50 - - Equanimity and optimised decision making
01:10:12 - Suffering is essential for growth
01:13:00 - Jay’s mentoring approach of vulnerability
01:18:03 - ‘Defining vulnerability’
01:30:37 - Vulnerability in conflict situations
01:31:46 - The emerging science of compassion
Previous episodes with Dr Sanguinetti:
https://www.guruviking.com/search?q=sanguinetti
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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James