Just Note Gone
is the Awareness Lab x American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant, Shinzen Young.
THis project utilizes Mixed reality feedback of saccades, the rapid scanning and fixating of the eyes and visual attention, as a way to note moments of vanishing in sensory experience.
And until you know of this:
How to grow through death
You're just another grumpy guest,
On the gloomy earth.
-Holy Longing by Goethe
How to grow through death
You're just another grumpy guest,
On the gloomy earth.
-Holy Longing by Goethe
From Shinzen:
So it makes sense that noting Gone could produce relief if you’re passing through something unpleasant. It allows you to experience “This too is passing”, which will give you a lot more comfort than just trying to remind yourself “This too shall pass.” It also makes sense that noting Gone could create stillness and
tranquility within you. Relief and tranquility are a natural consequence of the nature of vanishing. But there is another effect that people often report and that seems to go against the nature of vanishing.
tranquility within you. Relief and tranquility are a natural consequence of the nature of vanishing. But there is another effect that people often report and that seems to go against the nature of vanishing.
Vanishing points to nothing, right? Yet, some people find noting Gone to be rich and sensorially fulfilling. This is hard to explain logically but can be experienced personally. In India there is a word that means both “cessation” and “satisfaction” as a single linked concept. The word is Nirvana. No other cultureseems to have noticed this link. (Although medieval Christians would sometimes refer to the infinite richness of God as nihil per excellentiam, i.e., “nothing par excellence.”) Where things go to is where things come from. Each time you note Gone, for a brief instant your attention is pointed directly towards the richness of the Source. That is what’s behind the seeming paradox of satisfying nothingness.
Team:
Jesse Reding Fleming: director
Shane Bolan: Technical Director + Game Engine Developer
Jay Kreimer: Composer / Sound Design
Jesse Reding Fleming: director
Shane Bolan: Technical Director + Game Engine Developer
Jay Kreimer: Composer / Sound Design
Funded by the Awareness Lab and the university of Nebraska's Office of research and economic development (ORED)
