“Shinzen received tFUS twice a week, getting small doses of focused ultrasound stimulation throughout his ninety-minute meditation sessions. “This is it,” Shinzen said after a couple of weeks. This is what they were looking for. He was experiencing less resistance to entering a state of equanimity, less grasping of the ego, and more fluidity of thought and emotion. As Jay reported in his TEDxBigSky talk in January 2019, Shinzen said that the third week of stimulation gave him “one of the most significant effects he’s ever had with meditation”—and he’s been meditating for fifty years!”

Excerpt from Spirit Tech by Wesley J. Wildman, Ph.D., and Kate J. Stockly, Ph.D