Tulpamancy: Meditation That Makes Friends | Luca Del Deo | TEDxBU

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Luca Del Deo is a student scholar in the burgeoning field of meditation studies interested in exploring how unusual and unstudied meditative practices from various traditions implicate agency in the human relationship between the mind, mental health, the body, and perceptions of reality. He is currently studying at the Harvard Divinity School for a master’s program combining religious studies, psychology, and neuroscience methodologies. Luca works at the Center for Mind and Culture as a research assistant for a new project in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition. In May of 2022, he graduated from Boston University with high honors in Philosophy & Psychology and the College Prize in Religion. His undergraduate research developed a case study of how meditative practice can radically alter personality and perception. He is now developing an ethical, comparative framework as a foundation for future studies on how meditation research can inform normative mental behaviors. Luca Del Deo is a student scholar in the burgeoning field of meditation studies interested in exploring how unusual and unstudied meditative practices from various traditions implicate agency in the human relationship between the mind, mental health, the body, and perceptions of reality. He is currently studying at the Harvard Divinity School for a master’s program combining religious studies, psychology, and neuroscience methodologies. Luca works at the Center for Mind and Culture as a research assistant for a new project in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition. In May of 2022, he graduated from Boston University with high honors in Philosophy & Psychology and the College Prize in Religion. His undergraduate research developed a case study of how meditative practice can radically alter personality and perception. He is now developing an ethical, comparative framework as a foundation for future studies on how meditation research can inform normative mental behaviors. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx