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Consciousness Evolution — Timeline

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2026

Harvard/MGH researchers publish a framework for studying consciousness through advanced meditation

In 2026 the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School published 'Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation' in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral…

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (MGH / Harvard Meditation Research Program) · 2026
2026

7T fMRI and EEG studies map the brain during meditative 'cessation' — moments when consciousness briefly switches off and resets

In 2026, Harvard MGH's Meditation Research Program and collaborators published intensively-sampled 7-Tesla fMRI and high-density EEG studies of advanced meditators entering 'cessation' (nirodha) — a state where…

IBRO Neuroscience Reports / Harvard MGH Meditation Research Program (peer-reviewed) · 2026
2026

Harvard researchers call for a 'third wave' of meditation science aimed at advanced states, not stress relief

Writing in Neuron in 2026, Matthew Sacchet's group at Harvard/MGH argues that meditation research has spent two decades measuring beginners doing eight-week mindfulness courses and has almost nothing to say about…

Neuron (Sacchet et al.) / Harvard-MGH Meditation Research Program · 2026
March2026

Peer-reviewed review concludes most quantum theories of consciousness still cannot be tested

A critical review published in Frontiers in Psychology in March 2026 assessed the leading quantum theories of consciousness -- Orch-OR among them -- against three standards: physical feasibility, philosophical…

Frontiers in Psychology (peer-reviewed critical review) · March 2026
January2026

Peer-reviewed study found stage RNGs correlated with a global RNG network during Dispenza group healing meditations.

Published January 2026 in Elsevier's EXPLORE, 'Correlations between Onsite and Global Networks of Random Number Generators during Group Healing Meditations' analyzed 15 live Coherence Healing sessions across five…

EXPLORE (Elsevier), peer-reviewed · January 2026
1998

The Global Consciousness Project reports RNG deviations across ~500 world events at odds beyond a trillion to one

Since 1998 Princeton-affiliated researcher Roger Nelson has run a global network of 60+ random number generators, testing whether focused collective attention during major events correlates with departures from…

Global Consciousness Project / noosphere.princeton.edu (Nelson) · 1998–present
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