Discussions on topics focused on the coming Vingean Singularity, Entheogenic Exploration, the re-localization of community & agriculture, and Individual Conscious Autonomy.

Are we really more vulnerable to colds when we're stressed? Does depression increase your risk of heart disease? Could a bad bout of the flu during pregnancy cause schizophrenia in your child? Science has long struggled with the question of whether states of mind influence the body, and vice versa. But the historic mind-body divide is being challenged as cardiologists, immunologists and neuroscientists meet across the lab bench.

Quiten your mind. Attend to the moment. Mindfulness based meditation is being touted as beneficial for any number of afflictions - from anxiety to asthma; social phobia to psoriasis. But what is it, and how can science scrutinize subjective states of mind? Three scientists at high powered institutions discuss how they've turned a personal passion into a professional investigation.

The Techsattva is a netcast that attempts to make sense of several systems of thought at once, including contemplative practice, conscious business, trans-humanism, technology, psychology, and more. By denying the completeness of any one system of thought, theory, or ideology the Techsattva hopes to step back far enough from all of these theories to get a view of connections that exist between them.

Research into happiness hasn't been a traditional subject for psychology, but it's become something of a hot topic. We speak to several scientists on the cutting edge of happiness research.