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Both of these brainwave ground states are spontaneous, calm and effortless. When any physical or mental effort is made, the alpha rhythm is desynchronized, and it is superposed by faster brain waves of beta (13\u201330 Hz) and gamma frequencies (30\u2013150 Hz). This is associated with a stream of dualistic conscious experiences with contents. During deep sleep, delta activity is superposed by beta and gamma activity with microarousals resulting in dream experiences. During effortless, meditative awareness, the whole family of alpha rhythm is synchronized including (a)\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Occipital-parietal<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">alpha<\/jats:italic>\n                      with visual clarity, formless color, and the absence of visual imagery (b)\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Frontal<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">eye-field<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">alpha<\/jats:italic>\n                      with relatively motionless eyes, and the absence of voluntary actions or plans to move the eyes in some direction, along with nonactive working memory, (c)\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Somatosensory<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">alpha<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">or<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Mu<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rhythm<\/jats:italic>\n                      from the somatic motor-sensory cortex with the resultant stillness of the body including head, face, larynx, spine, hands and legs, (d)\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Mid-temporal<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">auditory<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">alpha<\/jats:italic>\n                      with vocal quietness and internal verbal silence (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Maunam<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) with a feeling of spontaneous silence and serenity, (e)\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Cingulate<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">and<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">precuneus<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">alpha<\/jats:italic>\n                      resulting in freedom from autobiographical memories and the sense of agency or ego. The insular cortex serves as a gatekeeper, a hierarchical controller to switch between conscious engagement or disengagement from the internal or the external world. It switches between the default mode network and the executive frontoparietal networks, between the sequential and the parallel modes of functioning. 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