Blood supply, not nerves; change, not level. Where the method fits, where the catch is — and one question the field itself asks: how did the authors separate scalp, breathing and pulse from the brain signal?
Journal
Writing from the practice — what is observed in the room, what the evidence actually supports, and where the two do not yet meet.
What We Know, and How Well — the evidence these texts stand on, with its gaps named.
„Meditation changes the brain“ — what a randomised trial did to that claim
Eight weeks of meditation in beginners: two small studies without active control, 3,200 citations — and a randomised trial of 218 people that found no structural brain change. What follows for practice.
What Neuroscience Can Say — an Assessment in Preparation
A critical assessment of what brain imaging can and cannot say about mind, behaviour and therapy: what we are preparing, and what it rests on. No conclusions yet.
The Second Dye
The interstitium is real anatomy. The bridge from it to the meridians is thinner than it was told — and the detail that shows it was left out of the story.
Attuned Is Not the Same as Accurate
Experienced meditators rated their performance as better and found the task easier, with no accuracy advantage at all. The more interesting question is the one nobody in the room had to ask: why heartbeats?