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THEORY-1241: Experienced Transcendental Meditation practitioners report more pure awareness than matched counting controls, and multivariate EEG separates the meditation period from counting and from rest, but the reports are not shown to track any EEG feature

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StatusProposed
Tagsconsciousness, neuroscience, phenomenology
SourceLIT-1354 — Distilling the Neurophenomenological Signatures of Pure Awareness during Transcendental Meditation
ExtendsTHEORY-870 — In one study of 33 experienced Transcendental Meditation practitioners and 33 matched controls who counted instead, the practitioners rated their session higher on a retrospective pure-awareness scale whose top was defined for them as free from content (d = 0.77), and a classifier on EEG separated meditation from counting at 65% balanced accuracy on held-out subjects and, within practitioners, meditation from rest with 88% sensitivity; the authors found no robust association between the ratings and the EEG features

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Source

Chandia-Jorquera et al. (2026), LIT-1354, read in full in NOTE-1058 from the bioRxiv v3 preprint.

Where the evidence stands

What the one study of 33 practitioners and 33 controls measured is THEORY-870, Active, which this entry extends. The promote_when above is THEORY-870’s condition before the twenty-fourth status review narrowed and promoted it, carried here unchanged except its version-of-record route, dropped because no discrepancy between versions is named (ADR-065 §4).

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