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The Rise of Spiritual Technologies
By Lucid News
Nichol Bradford, executive director of the Transformative Technology Lab, explores technology-based solutions for happiness and spiritual awakening, influenced by breakthroughs in psychedelic medicine and meditation studies. She emphasizes the potential of a $4 trillion market for wellness technologies, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Are we on the verge of discovering technology-based solutions to finding happiness? What about spiritual awakening? Nichol Bradford, the executive director of the Transformative Technology Lab, believes we are. Before becoming a leader in Transformative Technology, Bradford was a senior executive in video games. However, after an experience of awakening she had during a 10-day meditation retreat, she changed course and dedicated her career to studying and working on technology solutions to wellness, wellbeing, and even inner development that leads to “enlightenment, awakeness, oneness, transcendence, unity consciousness.” (She points out that there are over 200 terms for the experience.)
These technologies are being influenced by edge science, including recent breakthroughs in psychedelic medicine and peer-reviewed studies of highly attained meditators. Bradford suggests that we’re only glimpsing at the potential of what could be a $4 trillion market. She sat down with Lucid News recently to discuss Transformative Technology, how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated changes, and where the future is headed.
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