ROV PODCAST 26: WHY ENLIGHTENMENT CAN'T BE MEASURED: There’s a growing range of technologies that measure physiological correlates of meditative states. Brainwaves, heartrate, HRV, skin conductivity, and other physiological correlates can now be measured with personal devices. Through these measures we can get objective confirmation of stress versus relaxation and parasympathetic/sympathetic nervous system balance. We can measure physiological correlates of different inner states. But what about enlightenment? Can that be measured? What is enlightenment? If it is a recognition and realization of Awareness itself, as that within which all states arise, that which knows states and knows itself beyond any state, can that be measured? Stephen and Kevin point toward that which is beyond description and measurement, but which is available as a subtle, yet unmistakable, felt sense of openness of Awareness itself.
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