#8 Neuroimaging evaluation of the long term impact of a novel paired meditation practice on brain function
In a study looking at 40 OM meditators compared to non-meditators, it was found that Orgasmic Meditation has long-term effects on the brain. Specifically, it effects regions of the brain associated with social areas, emotional processing, focusing attention, sexual function, and similar effects to other studies for meditators and advanced meditators.
#5: Intense positive affect without arousal is possible: Subjective and physiological reactivity during a partnered sexual meditative experience
Though common models suggest that affect intensity can be thought of as orthogonal to arousal, examples of intensely pleasant low arousal stimuli remain rare. To support this orthogonal model, we examined whether a specific meditative sexual practice, Orgasmic Meditation (OM), induces such a state. Thus, this study measured changes in subjective affect as well as skin […]
#4: Orgasmic Meditation is considered more of a meditation practice, than a sexual experience
More than 200 people who had personal experience with OM, sex, sitting meditation, and fondling responded to this survey, which asked them to describe and compare each of those activities. This study was IRB approved and contained a series of multiple choice, open field, and Likert scale, a commonly used scale to measure attitudes, knowledge, […]
#3: Neurophysiological Correlates of Orgasmic Meditation using the PET/fMRI scanner
The overall goal of this study was to determine the neurophysiological correlates of Orgasmic Meditation (OM) as well as compare these effects to those of other meditation-based practices. By utilizing the PET-MRI scanner at Thomas Jefferson University, the most accurate neurophysiological data was obtained on the effects of Orgasmic Meditation. Twenty pairs of people were […]
#2: MEQ: Mystical Experience Questionnaire
Roland Griffiths, a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, developed a 30 question “Mystical Experience Questionnaire”, or MEQ30, which provides a validated and quantitative measure of mystical experience. This survey is fundamental to studying and understanding the healing abilities of psychedelics at Universities around the world. […]
#1: What is OM? A baseline EEG study of the mechanisms of OM
This is the first study in the U.S. since Masters and Johnson to focus on partnered stimulation. The study, using a total of 260 participants, monitored their physical and mental responses before, during and after the practice. It is the first study of its kind to use EEG and to measure both participants. In November […]
