UCLA Mindful celebrates 20 years

"Mindfulness" is more than sitting still

UCLA Mindful (previously MARC, the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles) is celebrating 20 years of mindfulness at UCLA.

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For 20 years, UCLA has been a home for mindfulness (Buddhist sati) education, research, and practice. New website: UCLA Mindful - Mindfulness Education Center | UCLA Health

Join us in celebrating this journey—from the founding of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) to the growth of UCLA Mindful and its reach across Los Angeles and around the world.

Join us on October 24, 2026, for a Day of Mindfulness featuring opportunities for practice, learning, and connection, followed by an evening 20th Anniversary Evening Reception to celebrate two decades of growth and impact and look ahead to the next 20 years.

There are two exciting celebration opportunities, the Day of Mindfulness and an Evening Reception.

• Participate in a free Day of Mindfulness in-person or live-online. Full event details now available.
• In-person and online Day of Mindfulness October 24, 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Pacific Time). All are invited to participate in a Day of Mindfulness, co-sponsored by and partially held in the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden, on Oct. 24 from 10:00 AM–5:00 PM. This special anniversary celebration brings together longtime members of the UCLA Mindful community, educators, practitioners, students, and friends for a day of meaningful practice, reflection, connection, and learning.
• The garden will host a variety of creative ways to practice mindfulness including movement, forest bathing, relational mindfulness, and much more.
• All are welcome to join in continuing the milestone celebration at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden for the Evening Reception. Limited spots still available.

LIVE: online and in-person in the Main Hall

The online experience offers its own thoughtfully curated program, with access to the day's featured speakers and shared moments of practice and reflection from the main hall.

There will be guided meditations throughout the day. The main hall will be livestreamed all day, allowing the broader community to come together in celebration from wherever they are.

A highlight of the celebration will be a gathering of past and present leaders who have helped shape UCLA Mindful over the past two decades. Featured speakers will include:

• Diana Winston, Current Director, UCLA Mindful
• Sue Smalley, Founder and Founding Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)
• Dan Siegel, Founding Co-Director of MARC
• Marvin G. Belzer, Former Associate Director of MARC

Additional teachers include:

• Dr. Allyson Pimentel, Mitra Manesh, Gloria Kamler, and Dr. Ali Mossaver-Rahmani

Only the in-person experience will invite participants into the UCLA campus and the Mathias Botanical Garden for a full day of embodied and relational practice, including breakout sessions, movement practices, and mindful garden experiences.

These sessions will take place in the main hall and throughout the garden and will offer opportunities to connect with the natural environment and with one another in ways that can only happen in person.

The in-person program will feature a rich variety of breakout sessions, with topics including:

• Relational mindfulness
• Movement and embodied practices
• Mindful garden tours
• Forest Bathing
• Mindful Photography
• and other opportunities to explore mindfulness through different perspectives and practices

Garden-based breakout sessions will not be recorded or livestreamed, allowing these intimate experiences to remain grounded in the garden and in the presence of those participating on site.

Together, we will reflect on the history of mindfulness at UCLA, celebrate the people and practices that have shaped the program, and look toward the future of mindfulness in our community and beyond.

Whether joining us on campus or from home, all are invited to be part of this milestone celebration. Join ss:

• Saturday, October 24, 2026
• 10:00 am–5:00 pm (PT
• UCLA Campus: Matthias Botanical Garden
• Online registration: The event is free to attend
• Donations are warmly appreciated and help support the continued work of UCLA Mindful.
• REGISTER NOW
• Facilitator 10:00-11:15

Opening Gathering: Founders Roundtable Dr. Elizabeth Ko Moderator 11:30-12:15 Sitting Practice- "Sharing Joy" Allyson Pimentel 12:30-1:15 Sitting Practice- "Slow Time" Dr. Ali 1:15- 2:15 Lunch 2:15-2:45 Mid-Day Gathering- Practice & Connection Diana Winston 3:00-3:45 Sitting Practice- "Where Is Your Attention Right Now? From Noise to Choice" Mitra Manesh 4:00-5:00 End of Day Gathering- Visioning & Sound Bath with Michael Perricone Diana Winston More

Two ways to participate — one meaningful celebration

Los Angeles leads mindfulness movement

The Day of Mindfulness will be offered in a hybrid (in-person/online) format, with opportunities to participate both in person at UCLA and online from around the world.

While both formats are part of the same celebration, the experiences are intentionally designed to be different. See website for in-person and online experience details (uclahealth.org/uclamindful). Full session details now available.

Together, we will reflect on the history of mindfulness at UCLA, celebrate the people and practices that have shaped the program, and look toward the future of mindfulness in our community and beyond.

• UCLA Mindful 20th Anniversary- Day of Mindfulness - UCLA Mindful | UCLA Health
• Mindfulness Day (September 12th)
• Amazon UCLA Bruins flag 3x5 (TN) | officially licensed
• Diana Winston (UCLA Health); SHEIN USA; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Psychedelic magic mushroom medicine

The "first flower" on earth can heal humans?

(TNE with Louisa Nicola) The psychedelic (entheogen, psilocybin-containing "magic mushroom") is changing everything doctors know about our brain.

Psilocybin mushrooms [a] are a type of entheogenic, psychedelic, hallucinogenic mushroom and a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain the prodrug psilocybin.

Humans can grow this fungi?

Psilocybin is metabolized into the psychedelic compound psilocin following ingestion [2].

Rather than referring to one single mushroom species, the term "psilocybin mushroom" refers to a broad group of fungi found across several genera [3].

Other compounds such as baeocystin, norbaeocystin, aeruginascin, and β-carbolines may modulate effects.

• Erowid website: erowid.org (documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives)
• MAPS: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS.org – psychedelic research for ssychological healing)

The most potent species are members of genus Psilocybe, such as P. azurescens, P. semilanceata, and P. cyanescens, but psilocybin has also been isolated from approximately a dozen other genera, including Panaeolus (including Copelandia), Inocybe, Pluteus, Gymnopilus, and Pholiotina [2]. More

What happens to brain during vipassana?

Consciousness also resides outside the brain

(Meditation Foundation) What happens in our brain during vipassana (insight, lit. "clear seeing") meditation? | Neuroscience of Mindfulness Explained

• First of all, what is "mindfulness" (sati)?
• "Mindfulness" defined by Ven. Analayo
• Brain activity and meditation
• Neuroscience (neurobiology)
• Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Buddha's Brain (Rick Hanson)

Author Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD has 4.7 out of 5 stars (with 2,067 reviews) for this book. Change our brain, change our life? This essential classic from the New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson is celebrating 15 years in print with more than 500,000 copies sold.

Great teachers like the Buddha Gautama, the Christ Jesus, Muslim Mo, Jewish Mo, and Hinduism's Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.

Neuroscience now reveals how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. More and more, we are learning that it’s possible to strengthen positive brain states [and traits].

By combining breakthroughs in science with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness practice, readers can also shape their own “Buddha’s Brain” for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.

Buddha’s Brain draws on evidence-based neuroscience to show how to stimulate the brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and self-worth.

Using guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, readers will learn how to activate the brain states of calm, joy, and compassion to replace worry, sorrow, and anger.

Most importantly, readers will foster positive psychological growth that will literally change the way they live their day-to-day lives.

This book provides an essential intersection of psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice. It is filled with practical tools and skills that readers can use every day to tap into the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater well-being. More

Written by Rick Hanson, PhD (author), Dr. Richard Mendius, MD, Dr. Jack Kornfield, PhD (preface); Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, MD (foreword).

End vicious circle of negative habits 💀

(Moon Mind Temple) Buddhist teachings that end the vicious circle of negative habits | Zen stories for deep peace (Thich Nhat Hanh)

The 'magic cactus' flower: sacred peyote

(Forgotten Crops) Why does this entheogenic cactus cause magical "hallucinations"?

Higher levels of consciousness

Ancient Egyptians took psychedelic blue lily

• Peyote
• Blue water lily/lotus (Nymphaea nouchali)
• Entheogen
• Carlos Castaneda
• Psychoactive drug
• Psychedelic experience
• Shamanic "sacrament"
• Banned by Spanish Empire
• Altered state of consciousness

DMT dangers, risks: Trickster elf entities

• Why 100% of scientists agree that DMT experiences and entities are NOT hallucinations 🤯

Did Carl Jung figure it out?

(OurTimelessWisdom) Jung theory explains DMT entities: Terence McKenna

(OurTimelessWisdom) DMT: Risk vs. Reward: the cost of seeing what we are not ready to see:

Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities: Machine Elves,
Tricksters, Teachers, Other Interdimensional Beings

• Animated Entities:) on Reddit: r/DMT

Rupert Sheldrake on elves, visions

(The Institute of Art and Ideas) Why do we see elves on DMT? | Rupert

Sheldrake (on morphic resonance, cultural collective memory)

DMT entity mystery breaks science: What are they? | Dr. Andrew Gallimore

The DMT entity mystery that breaks science: What are these beings?

(OurTimelessWisdom) The DMT Entity Mystery That Breaks Science: What Are These Beings? 👁️

DMT entity Machine Elf (Tricky Woo)

If these beings are real — science is over. Every time someone smokes DMT, that person meets the same thing: "machine elves," DMT entities. What are they? They are hyperdimensional beings who laugh, welcome you, trick you, and teach you. Who are they? And why do they act like they’ve known visitors forever?

🔍 This video rewires how we understand consciousness, intelligence, and the mind. In this rare, mind-bending interview, Dr. Andrew Gallimore — computational neurobiologist and the author of Alien Information Theory — breaks down the DMT entity mystery in full.

This is not fringe speculation. It is a direct challenge to neuroscience, physics, and the very Jungian idea of a "collective unconscious."

Andrew R Gallimore (Amazon)

🧩 DR. GALLIMORE EXPLORES:

🧠 Why the “just hallucinations” theory fails

📡 How the brain may be receiving data from “elsewhere”

👁️ Why everyone sees the same machine elves during DMT trips

📖 The earliest reports in DMT science, echoing Terence McKenna’s lectures

🃏 Their bizarre behavior -- part guide, part trickster

🔁 Why they say: “Welcome back! We’ve missed you!”

🧪 How to use DMT as a consciousness technology — not a drug

🌀 Why even Carl Jung’s archetypes might not go far enough to explain what’s happening

👇 To the question asked, “Why do we all see machine elves on DMT?” — this is the video that finally confronts it.

⏱️ CHAPTERS AND TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – The question Dr. Gallimore has wrestled with for 20 years

0:50 – Why hallucination theory collapses under scrutiny

1:36 – Brain as a receiver? A McKenna-style cosmic broadcast?

2:22 – Collective reports: same entities, same architecture

3:05 – First DMT entities documented (Szára, 1950s)

3:48 – Trickster intelligence and language-like behavior

4:33 – A lost home? The archetypal return motif

5:12 – “Welcome back…we’ve been watching.”

6:00 – DMT + technology = stable channel

6:49 – Dr. Gallimore’s plan echoes McKenna’s long-shot vision

7:35 – Beyond Jung, beyond hallucination: the unknown Other

💡 LEARN

• Why Dr. Gallimore's DMT interview challenges scientific materialism
• How these beings behave more like psycho-spiritual archetypes or alien intelligences
• How this experience echoes Jung’s individuation process — but in hyperspace
• Why this may be the beginning of a DMT technology consciousness study
• Where McKenna’s “language of the unconscious” meets 21st-century neuroscience

🧠 WHO IS DR. GALLIMORE?

Alien Information Theory

Dr. Andrew Gallimore is a computational neurobiologist, chemist, and author of Alien Information Theory. He has spent over 20 years studying how psychedelic (entheogenic) experiences — especially on DMT — interface with the structure of our reality, the unconscious mind, and the possible existence of non-human intelligences.

He is considered one of today’s leading experts on DMT, altered states, and the neuroscience of visionary experience.

It's plan A until Plan A works, until I die! #surreal

🎯 Subscribe for more videos unpacking the mind-bending intersection of Jung, McKenna, psychedelics, and deep consciousness science.

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• OurTimelessWisdom, June 29, 2025 (✪ Members first on June 28, 2025); Rupert Sheldrake; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Consciousness: Vedas right, science finds

(Cosmos Kolo) Nobel Laureate just proved what the Vedas [India's ancient "Knowledge Books"] said 3,000 and more years ago.

• Roger Penrose, author of The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind, The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, The Road to Reality
• Anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff
• The Lancet
• Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel
• SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED; They Look Alike, but There's a Little Matter of Size - The New York Times (physicist Mark Miller, Brandeis U) Aug. 15, 2006... Mark Miller, a doctoral student at Brandeis University, is researching how particular types of neurons in the brain are connected to one another...
• Ramana Maharshi Hindu sadhu, great rishi ("seer")

Hinduism's view is wrong in Buddhism

(One Timeless Witness) Consciousness is not what you think: Ramana Maharishi's three step answer

Science: Psychology of GenX Metalheads

(Loudwire) Beavis & Butt-Head's worst takes on music (MTV)

(Frank Talk After 50) The psychology of Gen X metalheads: What science found

• Generation X
• Tipper Gore (Al Gore's prude wife)
• Parents Music Resource Center
• Moral panic

What was the PMRC?

This 'l save our kids from capitalist exploitation

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."

The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].

Beavis & Butt-Head ROAST some metal

(Loudwire) Top 10 MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head metal ROASTS

Tipper and Al Gore get married in 1970

On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.

The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.

Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More

(RetroVibe) Funny songs every Gen X kid grew up hearing

Who cares what B&B think?

(Rock N' Roll True Stories) White Zombie was flopping...

then two losers on MTV said the band didn't suck

If there's no self, whose NDE is it?

(Buddha's Wisdom) NO-SELF vs. NDEs: Buddhism's strangest question about death

• Near-death experience (NDE)
• Dr. Raymond Moody wrote Life After Life: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and the Transformative Insights into the Afterlife, Backed by Scientific Study and Personal Testimonies
• Dr. Ian Stevenson
• Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: stages of human death
• Dr. Helen Wambach does early science in Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence Under Hypnosis
• If there is no permanent "self," what is there then?
• Saṃsāra is not Nirvana, but is to say so helpful?
• What is Liberation (Moksha) but Awakening to the Truth that this was all a Dream (Maya)?
• Death (marana) is death because it is immediately followed by rebirth; there is no space in between, as the Bardo is misunderstood to be, because it will not be another human rebirth next
• At the instant of death, in that submoment, what was a human life is lost, the impersonal process of consciousness relinks and rearises according to karma in a new form. It is neither a new existence nor the same as the one before, and this is confusing. Identity clings. But just as it was impersonal before, it is impersonal still, and the process (patisandhi in samsara) rolls on. Samsara is the "continued wandering on" and its detailed process the Buddha made known in the Abhidhamma, how cittas (mind moments) and impuslions (javanas) produce their results (vipaka and phala), and a "being" (which is really always a becoming) is unaware and just carried on...

The 6th sense humans had before 1850

(Rewired Era) The sixth sense human all had before 1850: They bred it out and no one knows why but indigenous aboriginal "wayfinders" can still know where they are and where they're going

Mind cannot be seen, so where is it?

(Buddhism Podcast) The mind cannot be seen, so where is it? | Buddhist Wisdom

But what is aware that it is aware?

There is a mind-door, greenish in hue, near the heart. This heart-mind seems to be the physical base of consciousness, not the brain in the cranium. When meditating, attention can be adverted to the area around the heart. There there is a mirror reflecting experience, consciousness, awareness. If the "mind" were in the brain or the head, it seems attention would be placed there to find it. But it is very much down closer to what in the West we refer to as the seat of our emotions. The Buddha did not specify a physical base for vijñāna (consciousness) or manas (in Early Buddhism). However, he seems to have been well aware of the practical application of locating this base for the sake of realizing the ultimate nature of mind-and-matter (nama-rupa), ultimate mind (a stream of cittas) and ultimate materiality (a stream of kalapas). But this is for advanced practitioners of Buddhist meditation rather than philosophers and speculators. For those, perhaps Zen no-mind would be better or the compelling mind-only (Yogachara) view.

• Buddhism Podcast (video); text by Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

World Brain Day: the 'Buddha's Brain'

• 6 things to do when waking up for better cognitive function, recommended by neurologists
• WORLD BRAIN DAY - July 22, 2025 - National Today

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom is an Audible audiobook (unabridged) by Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD. He is the author and narrator and has 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1,984 ratings.

Change your brain, change your life with this essential classic from New York Times bestselling author Dr. Hanson—now celebrating 15 years in print with more than 500,000 copies sold.

Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.

Neuroscience now reveals how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. More and more, we are learning that it’s possible to strengthen positive brain states. By combining breakthroughs in science with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness (sati) practice, we too can shape our own “Buddha’s Brain” for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.

Buddha’s Brain draws on evidence-based neuroscience to show how to stimulate our brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and self-worth.

Using guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, readers learn how to activate the brain states of calm, joy, and compassion instead of worry, sorrow, and anger. Most importantly, they will foster positive psychological growth that will literally change the way we live our day-to-day life.

This book provides an essential intersection of psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice, and is filled with practical tools and skills that anyone can use every day to tap into the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater well-being.

PLEASE NOTE: Purchase of this title is accompanied by a PDF in the Audible Library along with the audio. More: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom by Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD, and Daniel J. Siegel, MD, with foreword by Dr. Richard Mendius, MD and contributor Jack Kornfield for preface (Brilliance Audio)

FIGHTING, anger, self-talk, emotions

Sir, please don't come at us in anger, please.

Never be angry: How to stay calm in every situation

(ThinkZone) Attia & Huberman. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a renowned neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made significant contributions to the field of neuroscience through his research on brain plasticity, visual system development, and the mechanisms underlying various neurological disorders. Dr. Peter Attia is a prominent figure in the fields of longevity, health, and performance optimization. He is a physician, researcher, and speaker who focuses on promoting a deeper understanding of human health and well-being.

The Monster's idol Mike Tyson

Prison homosexuality exposed by bi Tyson

Who is Naoya "The Monster" Inoue?

The Pretty Boy Floyd of the ring

Naoya Inoue (井上 尚弥), a professional boxer, was born on April 10, 1993. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes. He is one of only three male boxers in history (along with Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk) to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era," becoming the second to do so [3, 4]. Nicknamed "The Monster" (怪物 Kaibutsu), he is known for his exceptional punching power, possessing a knockout-to-win percentage of 90%. More

• Never insult Naoya Inoue or this is what happens (brutal KO)
• Bully ANGERED Naoya Inoue and regretted it badly
• Naoya Inoue vs. Gervonta Davis: most insane fight ever

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Where does consciousness GO after death?