Neuroplasticity and mind states - maybe it's not how you do it, but just the way you do it?

There are different ways to facilitate the mind state. Interesting research on how different methodology can get you to the same place regardless of mythology.

Scientific insights into how humans access deep spiritual states

A common pathway to bliss

The researchers found that both jhāna meditators and those speaking in tongues enter a reinforcing cycle: they focus their attention on an object, such as the breath in meditation or God in prayer, which triggers a sense of joy. This joy makes attention feel effortless, leading to a feeling of surrender, which deepens the experience.

“As far as we know, this spiralling dynamic leading to increasingly deep and effortless bliss is a novel idea in the psychological sciences,” said Lifshitz. “It’s fascinating that these radically different spiritual traditions seem to have discovered it and made use of it in different ways.”