The Shamatha Project

Summary: In 2007 Dr. Wallace will be leading a joint scientific project named The Shamatha Project. A battery of studies will be conducted in two 3-month meditation retreats (one retreat is a control group), and the results will be submitted to the most prestigious academic journals. In our final podcast with Alan Wallace he discusses this project, both in terms of its structure and his hypotheses. This is part 3 of a three-part series. Listen to Part 1, Alan Wallace on Achieving Shamatha and Part 2, Get a PhD in Contemplative Science. Episode Links: The Attention Revolution ( http://bit.ly/HIW1o ) Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Consciousness Studies ( http://www.sbinstitute.com ) The Shamatha Project ( http://www.sbinstitute.com/research_Shamatha.html )