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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

This was super fun to record and I'm happy to share it with you today:

A Conversation with Kati Devaney

A Conversation with Kati Devaney - Deconstructing Yourself

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

For every Alan Watts there are uncounted unknown bodhisattvas - content where they are, improving each life they touch

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

There should be more research about spiritual awakening. The median thing you hear from talk therapy patients isn’t “my entire phenomenal experience has been reorganized for the better.” Isn’t that what we should be spending a significant amount of our time studying?

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

A takeway from the @MAPS talk: many ppl will be "graduating" from MDMA or psilocybin therapy and IMO there don't seem to be solid long term integration programs in place. This is a big gap & looks to me like an opportunity for the wider psychedelic community to help these ppl

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

A very exciting weekend spent collecting pilot data with @LabLazar . We got several hours worth of fMRI of jhana meditation and attention tasks in the scanner (plus a few more speculative events that I won't mention until I see the data). Stay tuned for results!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

What a delight to talk with @OortCloudAtlas about the relationship between psychedelics, neuroscience, and meditation in my life and practice! And, yes, for those who are curious, I do eventually explain what an Alembic is.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

I'm thrilled to start building Alembic Labs with the @BerkeleyAlembic team and Sasha!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Stephen is doing something actually new in a zone that hasn't changed in literally thousands of years. This is sure to be an interesting experience for those curious about the jhanas

Stephen Zerfas

@stephen_zerfas

1 year

First Jhourney retreat designed for novices happening in Sept. We’re engineers, not dharma teachers; if that excites you, we’d love to have you — spots are limited. This retreat will focus on low-tech innovations; we’ll track success rates and layer on tech over time.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

9 months

I got to have a super fun and in depth discussion with @robertwrighter on @NonzeroPods , including getting into the deep end of meditation and altered states. I'm happy to share it today! Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain

Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain (Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney)

Episode · Robert Wright's Nonzero · This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nonzero.substack.com0:33 Kati’s very unusual Venn diagram 4:52 Your brain on meditation 10:59 The...

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

I'm delighted to be launching @BerkeleyAlembic in early 2022 with @erik_davis and Michael Taft - we've been colaborating for years and are taking the next step to bring our vision into the world - with your help!

Michael Taft (simulation)

@OortCloudAtlas

3 years

I'm very happy to announce that we're opening a new meditation center in the new year. It's in Berkeley, & is called "The Alembic.” Meditation in several traditions, yoga, movement, community and cultural events, and more. We’ll even be doing some neuroscience research there. 1/4

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

This must be the place

Charlie Awbery

@_awbery_

1 year

Yes, I’m definitely at the right place

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

6 months

I've had fun collecting data before, but this week was next level. Thanks to @nicberries for helping make it all happen, and to all the meditators who came thru Alembic Labs this week - stay tuned for results!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Cessations have been a well-known phenomenon in meditation circles for a long time, and I'm delighted to be part of the team bringing them into the realm of academic discussion. (I'm also delighted that Sasha let me include footnotes in this piece)

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

7 months

New paper out! It's always so cool to see a rare dataset applied in a new way. My original project investigated meditation via attention & prediction updating - cheers to Vaibhav for his insight that these meditators have spent an unusually long time in silence, too.

Vaibhav Tripathi, PhD

@vaibhav_3pathi

7 months

I looked at the data already collected by the awesome @kathryndevaney on super-experienced meditators who had sat through 100s of days of silence across their lifetime. The connectivity of DMN (center of imagination) and Language Network got more decoupled in meditators.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

Our new meditation fMRI paper, with a surprising behavioral result, is now out in @BrainSci_MDPI - it's open access, and you can download it here:

Attention and Default Mode Network Assessments of Meditation Experience during Active Cognition and...

Meditation experience has previously been shown to improve performance on behavioral assessments of attention, but the neural bases of this improvement are unknown. Two prominent, strongly competing...

www.mdpi.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

6 months

** Such ** great fun talking with @robertwrighter on @NonzeroPods ! We discuss how to start or re-start a meditation practice, Bob's coffee + meditation hack, how practice can orient us to AI, a little bit about the neuroscience of enlightenment, and more

Meditation Tips for Beginners (and Non-Beginners) (Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney)

Episode · Robert Wright's Nonzero · This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nonzero.substack.com0:33 Kati’s unusual niche 2:40 How Covid changed meditation 7:38 Kati: The...

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Do you have a solid jhana practice? Are you in the bay? Want us to slap an EEG on your head and see what your brain is up to? Come see @zerfas33 and me at the BYO Jhana Practice non-residental retreat at Alembic, next weekend! Apply here:

BYO Jhana Practice (and help with EEG data collection!)

A 2-day non-residential retreat at The Alembic. Meditators will wear simple EEG headsets and indicate state transitions in & out of jhana

www.eventbrite.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Another great writeup of our recent cessation paper, this time from @shayla__love

What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation? | Psyche Ideas

Psychologists are studying a form of meditation known as ‘nirodha-samāpatti’ that reportedly ceases all mental function

psyche.co

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

8 months

@TylerAlterman I have LOTS of thoughts on this. To start: IMO a core piece should be "You can just do things" - have them try a lot of things with minimal skin in the game to see what lights them up. I've done so much random nonsense that wasn't The Thing but helped me get closer to The Thing

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Fantastic talk by Gül Dölen @ #horizonsny22 showing that the psychedelic-precipitated critical period reopening (IN MICE) scales with the duration of state alteration by the drug - ketamine is the shortest up to Ibogane without an end point they've found (>4 wks) [1/2]

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Hey @juliahartz - I've been emailing Eventbrite multiple times per day every single day for the past 2 weeks to get the landing page for our meditation center @BerkeleyAlembic reinstated. 1st the support team told me the problem was fixed (it is not) & now they're ignorning me.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

This is so stunning in person, I can't wait for you all to see it!

Michael Taft (simulation)

@OortCloudAtlas

2 years

At @BerkeleyAlembic we just got gorgeous new artwork installed by @gabrielschama . Layers & layers of laser-cut, super-intricate plywood. Delicious. IRL is even more beautiful.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

7 months

I'm getting a new experiement running, and I'd love to talk with someone who's a real expert at EEG study design - I'm still wrapping my K-Space wandering, voxel-clustering, fMRI-brain around what to do with all these wiggly lines. If this is you, let's chat!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

6 months

Really excited to be a part of, as far as I know, the first ever panel about meditation at @CNSmtg ! And yes, if you're wondering, I do meditate before all of my talks.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

If you know anyone at @eventbrite let me know. This is funny but we're supposed to have 3 events in the next three days and now no one can meditate.

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

1 year

Acheivement unlocked: banned by Eventbrite. Sit tight and stay tuned for updates

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Very cool pre-pub findings presented by Gabby Agin-Liebes from @UCSF on psilocybin-assisted therapy for alchohol use disorder: qualitative analysis shows self-compassion as the key driver of the psilocybin effects. #horizonsny22

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

When I removed the phrase "graduate level" it also included an attendance, grading, and plagarism policy

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

So much fun talking with Tasshin about neuroscientific research, meditation, sangha, the Berkeley Alembic, awakening, my early days doing neurohistology (i.e. breaking lab equipment), current fMRI experiments, and more.

Love Pilgrim

@tasshinfogleman

3 years

Neuroscientific Research and Contemplative Communities with Kathryn Devaney ( @kathryndevaney ) - Reach Truth Podcast

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

@visakanv Today: submitting a proposal to do a jhana meditation fMRI study This month: starting a big project that gets me closer to my goal of opening a spirituality research & retreat center This year: cultivating balance; tending my own garden while maintaining efficacy in the world

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Want to be amongst the first (potentially of many) to learn the jhanas informed by your brain activity? Contact Stephen

Stephen Zerfas

@stephen_zerfas

1 year

Jhourney's looking for some volunteers in the Bay Area interested in being our first guinea pigs next week for our earliest attempts at jhana-accelerating biofeedback. Will require ~4 hours. We'll pull out everything we've got to try and teach you the jhanas.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

7 months

D'aw look at the baby Alembic

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

7 months

How long has Kelly Boys been teaching at Alembic? This long:

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Catch me, @erik_davis & @OortCloudAtlas talking all about @BerkeleyAlembic on The Stoa this Thursday!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

She goes on to highlight how we know from neuroscience (in birds) that *social deprivation* reopens critical periods. Gül proposes that spiritual traditions that have silent retreats could be leveraging this deprivation effect. This was def one of the best talks today! [2/2]

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Started my Thanksgiving day shedding tears of gratitude in our Vast Sky Mind practice discussion section. I'm so extraordinarily grateful for meditation, and to the timeless community of beings tending the flame and sharing the gifts of their practice with the world 🌌🙇‍♀️

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

8 months

Christopher Wallis at Alembic, open to all!

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

8 months

ANNOUNCING: by popular demand, the sold-out workshop with Christopher Wallis on Feb 24th will now be livestreamed! Reserve a spot here

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

A milestone for The Alembic this week. We've got data!

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

3 years

We ran our 1st experiment in The Alembic space this week! With @zerfas33 , @mackenzie_then , @tucker_peck , @ForrestHBennett , @fordacious & @kathryndevaney we collected ~1 hour of jhana EEG data. Stay tuned for results & much more to come from the alembic neuro crew.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Join me and the rest of the Alembic crew and let's see what we can build together ⚗️✨🦚

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

2 years

We are looking for a part time director of operations to help our community grow and thrive. Check out details and application instructions, and please share with other interested folks! Details here:

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

8 months

Help make the Alembic magic happen:

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

8 months

ANNOUNCING: Alembic is hiring. Join us as our very first event coordinator and help make this whole thing happen. Details and application instructions are on our website.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

I can't express what an incredible honor it is to host the WVC at @BerkeleyAlembic . I'm so grateful to every single one of these women for the work they've done to make my own road easier. Hope to see some of you here:

2023 Women's Visionary Congress

Meet visionary female healers, researchers, artists, and spiritual leaders exploring the future of p&ychede!ics, consciousness, and culture

www.eventbrite.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

This was one of my personal highlights from @vibecamp_ and I'm super stoked to be able to attend the Alembic version

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

2 years

ANNOUNCING: A metta dance party, with @tasshinfogleman ! This event brings together loving-kindness meditation (or mettā) and dance. We will generate as much love as possible, and have tons of fun doing it! Guided metta followed by dance. Details & reg:

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

Aditya Upadhyayula, beginning his talk at #VSS2020 "Let me explain what I mean using a scene from Mario Kart" - Yes please!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

This is a companion piece to the academic article that @RubenLaukkonen & team released earlier this year, and is hopefully more accessable to a wide audience, academic & non-academic alike. I want to thank @dave_vago for comments on this, too!

The science behind the world’s most miraculous nap, or, Nirodha Samāpatti

an exotic variety of nonexistence

sashachapin.substack.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

This has been my private twitter account since 2008. Today I'm switching to public because I believe everyone should watch this guided meditation & discussion from Eve Ekman, PhD (of the @GreaterGoodSC ) recorded with @SFDC_Folsom a few weeks ago.

Well of Being: Finding Ground in Groundless Times by Cultivating...

Support SFDC and Eve Ekman here: https://sfdharmacollective.org/donateor at our Venmo, here: https://venmo.com/SF-dharma-collective. Please indicate that the...

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

5 months

I look forward to every episode of DY, but this one espcially so:

Michael Taft (simulation)

@OortCloudAtlas

5 months

In which I talk with @stephen_zerfas about his meditation background, teaching jhanas, and the goals of his company @jhanatech .

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

If I met you at @tpotvibecamp and you're interested in helping with / totally running the @BerkeleyAlembic twitter account please comment here or send me a DM!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Well this fixed it! We even got our super cute vanity link back. Thanks for the help everyone ⚗️✨

The Berkeley Alembic Foundation

The Berkeley Alembic Foundation aims to facilitate, teach, and cultivate awakening and liberation for everyone and function as a force for peace, kindness, and good in the world.We envision a world...

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Hey @juliahartz - I've been emailing Eventbrite multiple times per day every single day for the past 2 weeks to get the landing page for our meditation center @BerkeleyAlembic reinstated. 1st the support team told me the problem was fixed (it is not) & now they're ignorning me.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

“when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@FromPhDtoLife I used to use like 4 different complementary tools but now I've moved my entire brain into @RoamResearch - can't say enough good things about it, it's improved everything I do

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

M4 is now accepting abstracts for the poster session! M4 is a scientific conference bringing together an interdisciplinary group of individuals to inspire mindfulness research using advanced cognitive neuroscience tools and technology. Poster submission deadline is July 31st

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

6 months

Looking forward to dropping into @thesfcommons tonight to discuss neuroscience, meditation, and tech! Details & registration:

Conscious Tech Collective Q&A with Kati Devaney (Berkeley Alembic) · Luma

This week we welcome Kati Devaney, co-founder of The Berkeley Alembic, neuroscience & meditation researcher at UC Berkeley, and advisor to Jhourney for a…

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Explaining the Alembic Labs Meetup (coming soon!) to @markhalko : Me: "So it's less like a journal club and more like Science by the Pint ... but wihout the beer. Have you been to one of those?" Mark: "Our lives are very different and I think you know that"

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

@TylerAlterman Got the prompt "What if you knew you'd be equally happy either way?" from @AuthenticJoeH and I've found it very helpful & unblocking

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

That retreat is really something special, glad you're enjoying it over there. The recommendation comes from @OortCloudAtlas by proxy - he's got all of us working our way through it over here too 📚🌌🕹️

Dharmagarage - imaginal and meditation practice

@DharmagarageU

4 years

Listening to Rob Burbea's Jhana retreat talks, and just.. wow. He speaks with such awe and poetic beauty about the Jhanas. Thanks @kathryndevaney and @original_chills for encouraging the listen.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Welcome to twitter & thanks for putting me over 1K followers, @LotusUndergrnd ! I'm looking forward to having your whimsical and incisive Buddhist wisdom on this platform ☂️💎🌈

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@TomerUllman Ha! There's a saying that floats around in meditation world: "You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

It was a delight to be a part of this community retreat - I return to Berkeley feeling very optimistic about the future

John Vervaeke

@vervaeke_john

2 years

Just returned from the Respond Retreat at the Maple Monastic Academy. Magical place and community. Deep dialogos with community leaders and creators of ecologies of practices. So much good work done towards building a viable community of communities. Thank you!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

"How will the world know what's happening in your clinic?" @Prof_HeidiAllen urges ketamine clinics and other psychedelic therapists to collect and share data with the research community. Couldn't agree more! #horizonsny22

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

"Impossible is a mantra and a mindset. If we change our attitude we change what's possible... the power of our mind is to create a reality that is different than the reality that we are experiencing today" -Christina Figueres on climate & stubborn optimism at @mindandlife #SRI

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

We live in the future #dalle

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Oh hey! I'll be teaching remote tonight via zoom, and in-person next week in the new SFDC space on 24th. If you know the history of the SF Dharma Collective, you can imagine this is a pretty big moment for me - I'm looking forward to seeing you there.

SF Digital Dharma Collective

@DharmaClctive

2 years

Kati Devaney is the guest teacher for tonight's HYBRID Bay Area Pragmatic Dharma Sangha at 7:30pm Class meets both in our space, 2929 24th Street, and online ⠀⠀ Join the sangha in discussion of #meditation and the interplay between #dharma and #psychology

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

In 2022, I'm moving my neuroscience research program to UC Berkeley, where I'll continue using fMRI to examine the neural correlates of meditation expertise. Going forward, I'll be able to communicate "hot off the press" research findings directly to the Alembic community.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

@visakanv @staringispolite Woman for scale part 2

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

It's our Very First Press Coverage!! Some great photos and a nice writeup which includes (don't worry) an explanation of what an Alembic is ;) ⚗️✨

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

1 year

Thanks for the writeup @berkeleyside ! With a shoutout to the WVC this weekend, a hat tip to @GabrielSchama for his amazing art, and a great pic of Chandra Easton leading a kirtan, we love how this article points at the Alembic practice community. -Kati

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

New cortical parcellation just dropped (not peer reviewed) #dalle

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Hey look I made a mandala in midjourney!

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

2 years

Due to its marginalized and misunderstood status, salvia divinorum has long been for many of us just a head shop curiosity, with little more guidance surrounding it than “smoke this, it’s crazy.” But this sacred plant opens up powerful and deeply subtle dimensions.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

On a personal note: this project was the high point of my PhD work. I'm grateful to the whole team - @profsomers @emilyjlevin @lablazar @vaibhav_3pathi & James Higgins, with scanning & tech help from @mayalrosen and @jabrissenden - for making it happen! 🧘🏼🧠🧲

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@SteMartiniani My thesis (fMRI of meditators paying attention) was spurred by an insight I had in my early 20s that what I was calling "me" was the aggregated total of everything I'd ever paid attention to. These two quotes were the closest I could get to capturing that insight.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

I'm teaching in-person tonight at @DharmaClctive ! From 7:30 - 9pm we'll have a ~40 minute sit followed by discussion and Q & A, and then we'll go for tacos As Is Tradition. Hope to see you there.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

11 months

**Finally** a series that addresses the proper way to conga line

Good at Everything

@emilyandzena

11 months

It's out!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

An opportunity to meditate online with two excellent teachers

Michael Taft (simulation)

@OortCloudAtlas

3 years

Hey, come to an online retreat taught by me and Tucker Peck at the end of April. Serious sitting. 🧘‍♀️🧘🧘‍♂️

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

@cekaur @TylerAlterman @Meaningness @_awbery_ That's a pic I took of the fMRI scanner I was using when I was living in Delhi. In the states imaging suites are very sterile, medical looking environments. This was a private imaging center in Delhi that was donating scan time to our project (sight restoration in kids)

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Secondary finding (continuing the placebo theme): Benadryl: "spectacularly ineffective" as a placebo 🤣

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Zen: Internet Style

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

1 year

By popular demand, streaming tickets for @erik_davis ' upcoming series: Zen, American-Style are now available. With a streaming ticket, you'll receive an Ultra Secret Private Link to watch live or re-watch in your preferred zone, time or otherwise.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Last one for now - who needs scan time? #dalle

Kathryn × DALL·E 2 | fMRI image of human brain

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

labs.openai.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@MillerLabMIT Leslie was an incredible mentor for me. Amongst many other stories: I accepted a PhD offer from Brown, but had the opportunity to conduct research in Belgium instead. I didn't know what to do & she told me "life happens, they'll understand." She changed my whole career.

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Kathryn Devaney

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@altsanabo Haha! Well don't forget "reason for Pranab to visit Berkeley" on that list 🫖

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Super psyched to be hanging out with The Stoa folks talking all things @BerkeleyAlembic - hope to see you there!

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

Inaugural use of the zoom whiteboard today in a brainstorming meeting with @halkolab . The elegance is undeniable; no scooping please.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

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Internal Tech Emails

@TechEmails

2 years

Steve Jobs emails himself September 2, 2010

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

Related quote: "God bless all of you tring to come up with a placebo for psilocybin and MDMA" #horizonsny22

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

2 years

@RCarhartHarris @MAPS Even better! I'm sure everything we've learned about sangha and other community models could really help these folks as they re-acclimate

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

Our work underlines the importance of careful control group selection in meditation research and adds to a growing literature that long-term meditation practice can contribute to mental wellness via effective suppressive control over the ruminative DMN, both on & off the cushion.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

BUT their brains looked different - the meditators activated the Dorsal Attention Network and suppressed the Default Mode Network more than the non-meditators both while they were paying attention *and* at rest

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

@uberstuber Ha! If you're serious I really want to get it to guide a meditation. I have a bunch of transcripts of meditations from @DharmaClctive that we can work from - DM me if you want to play around with that.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

Well done, now please stop contacting Stephen! Thanks all

Stephen Zerfas

@stephen_zerfas

1 year

We got an overwhelming response! We'll return to this Twitter thread and DM's when looking for more volunteers in the future. Thanks for supporting the cause :)

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

9 months

@TylerAlterman I 100% will christen it and endow the vibes by leading a fire kasina retreat there

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

11 months

I've known Katherine for about a decade and I'm so excited for the Alembic community to meet her! See you next Friday, 7pm at Alembic ⚗️✨🌌

Berkeley Alembic ⚗️

@BerkeleyAlembic

11 months

Katherine's journey through medical institutions, meditation halls, psychedelic ceremonies and crematoria is not for the faint of heart ♥️ - we'll see you there.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@VSSMtg Now: Temporally interfering electrical stimulation in primary visual cortex. Always: the impact of meditation on visual attention.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

8 months

@connerdelights @uberstuber @stephen_zerfas There haven't been any PET studies of jhana, which is what we'd need to really get at the question of neurotransmitters directly. The Hagerty fMRI study saw nucleus accumbus activity, which implicates dopamine release. Leigh speculates on all of that here:

Speaker Series: Leigh Brasington

Jhanas - Buddhist Meditative Absorptions in Modern Times.

www.youtube.com

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

Congrats to Louis & Arash for this cool new publication on visual illusions! @NeurosciBU @BU_Tweets

PeerJ Publishing

@thePeerJ

4 years

Just published in #PeerJ - Lightness induction enhancements and limitations at low frequency modulations across a variety of stimulus contexts #neuroscience #ophthalmology

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

My #CNS2020 poster is a wrap! The virtual session has pros and cons and I missed the in-person interactions. I did however, get to realize a long wished for conference ability and attended a talk without leaving my poster.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

@the_wilderless We're hosting him at Alembic soon, I'll see about releasing a recording...

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

Maya's a delightful colleague and Western Mass is one of my favorite places on earth - highly recommend this lab for anyone looking for a lab manager position!

Dr. Maya L. Rosen

@mayalrosen

3 years

🚨Job Alert🚨 I'm hiring a lab manager for the Minds in Development Lab at Smith College! We'll be doing fun science focused on how the environment shapes brain development in young children! In gorgeous Western MA! RT widely please! DM or email with qs

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

6 months

"I may need to get these forms in a better format than a .jpg" -things nonprofit lawyers say

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

8 months

@TylerAlterman @iamapostol In my experience, it's nested and iterative. Taking action in the world brings up psychological material that the inner work never would have reached. The inner work opens new vistas in the world. Happening all the time at different scales & arc lengths.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

I happen to know that there's ONE spot left in this retreat. A unique combo of three days of meditaiton followed by three days of relating. I know these folks and it's sure to be an interesting time

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

When I started studying meditation, @ProfSomers & I weren't sure if we'd get funding or participants, but we tried anyway (it worked!). Relatedly, #CNS2020 now has a "Meditation Research" chat because I was pretty sure I didn't have admin permissions but tried anyway (it worked!)

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

4 years

@CorriveauNick If by "subjects" you mean "voxels" then yes. Otherwise... Reminds me of a reviewer who told us, on a task based comparative vision study with human n = 12, macaque n = 2, to run 8 more macaques. Sure. I'll get back to you in 7 years.

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

1 year

@dkazand @sensefulronin @vlct0rs_tw1tter @reverician @sandra_sobanska @s0ulDirect0r @OortCloudAtlas @erik_davis @adele_bloch @AgotaDubi @grindsets @BerkeleyAlembic That just keeps happening

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Kathryn Devaney

@kathryndevaney

3 years

@m_ashcroft @michaelcurzi @enormous_jim I have ideas about open awareness in the brain and I've been wanting to learn more about Alexander Technique - happy to talk more about this. Nice pointer, @michaelcurzi

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