Egoic Mind and the Silent Witness

Podcast: The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese · Hosted by Greg Reese of the Reese Report

Opublikowano: 2026-09-07

The Default Mode Network, or DMN, is a network of the brain that lights up during self-reflection. These are the neurons that create the ego-story. Neuroimaging studies have shown that experienced meditators are not firing the ego-story neurons as much as non-meditators, and are accessing other parts of the neural network more. Scientific studies confirm that the narrating ego is a construct of the mind, and conscious awareness is a measurable neural condition. The philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims that beyond the biological organism there is no separate entity that qualifies as a “self,” and that our sense of i...