Why is (or can be) Yoga so mind-expanding, do you think, - & re questions of consciousness (Harvard psychology/philosophy wise - what is consciousness, and how does it work? - but also conceptually India-wise)?

... where consciousness as awareness isn't, for example, reconcilable re the first (e.g. subjective experience - what you say, feel, and remember) and third person perspectives (e.g. what scientists neurologists, study, measure and model) ...

and could we begin to explore these questions of how consciousness works anew in a realistic virtual earth for brain science ... am thinking Google Streetview with time slider with Tom Dean's brain modeling and at the atomic and cellular levels with an algorithm of quantum computing approach ... and by building out / making ...

And, I find it fascinating how communication itself can expand one's understanding of consciousness - what a Yoga teacher talks about using a remarkable language of consciousness (often divine related) with roots in India, or how a piece of music communicates a kind of self-reported experience of expanded consciousness.

Communication itself about consciousness can be mind-expanding

and I'm curious where and how one might begin to observe this scientifically in the brain as well as modeling-wise ... when someone is reporting related conscious experiences.

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You might enjoy these (very beautiful) Bach violin concertos: "J.S. Bach: The Violin Concertos" -

J.S. Bach: The Violin Concertos

https://youtu.be/_ioc6sdgugo. And have you listened to much raga? (Am an appreciator of Nikhil Bannerjee's raga particularly from the '60s and '70s in Amsterdam and Berkeley (not sure why this is so) - & am just beginning to listen to this one -