HEARTBEAM: Heart-Brain Engagement for Adolescent Meditation
Can real-time heartbeat-evoked potential feedback enable adolescents to access deeper meditative states more rapidly than traditional neurofeedback approaches? Can immersive virtual environments combined with personalized physiological feedback create lasting changes in how adolescents relate to their internal bodily experiences?
Tiny Blue Dot Foundation
Immersive Multisensory Experience: Effects on Well-being
How does the dynamic interaction of multisensory stimulation and real-time physiological biofeedback impact immediate and long-term measures of psychological well-being? What role does interoceptive awareness play in moderating the benefits of multisensory stimulation? Does enhanced body-mind connection through biofeedback create more profound shifts in consciousness?
Regenesis Studio
Spiritual Chills: Assessing the Impact of Aesthetic Chills on Prayer – A Multi-Phase Study Across Diverse Prayer Practices
How do religious and spiritual beliefs influence aesthetic experience? How does spiritual aesthetic experience impact the quality and benefits of prayer?
YSF Innovation Fund
Dark Cave, Bright Mind: Mapping Neural and Phenomenological Effects of Dark Retreat Practice
Can extended periods of darkness facilitate profound self-reflection and transformation by disrupting habitual perception patterns? Could this “sober psychedelic” experience lead to insights similar to those induced by traditional psychedelics?
Unlikely Collaborators
Preventing Sociopathic Robots
Can we leverage vulnerability and homeostasis to encourage proxies for harm aversion, empathic concern and compassion to emerge in world-modeling AI?
Survival and Flourishing Fund + Foresight Institute + 
