{"id":141892,"date":"2022-07-08T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/awareness-without-a-sense-of-self"},"modified":"2022-07-08T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:24:04","slug":"awareness-without-a-sense-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/awareness-without-a-sense-of-self","title":{"rendered":"Awareness Without a Sense of Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/awareness-without-a-sense-of-self.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: People who practice meditation often report feeling \u201cpure awareness\u201d in which they say they experience consciousness itself. The state encompasses specific sensations and non-specific feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. Researchers say their findings will help explain \u201cpure consciousness,\u201d and work to generate a prototypical minimal model for human conscious perception.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of meditation practice, meditators can experience a state of \u201cpure awareness\u201d or \u201cpure consciousness\u201d, in which they perceive consciousness itself. This state can be experienced in various ways, but evidently incorporates specific sensations as well as non-specific accompanying perceptions, feelings, and thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: People who practice meditation often report feeling \u201cpure awareness\u201d in which they say they experience consciousness itself. The state encompasses specific sensations and non-specific feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. Researchers say their findings will help explain \u201cpure consciousness,\u201d and work to generate a prototypical minimal model for human conscious perception. Source: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}