About the Authors

Ninette Simonian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Micah Alan Johnson

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Caitlin Lynch

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Geena Wang

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Velu Kumaravel

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Taylor Kuhn

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Félix Schoeller

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Nicco Reggente

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nicco@advancedconsciousness.org

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

This research was financially supported under a Research Services agreement executed between IACS and Lumena, Inc. It is imperative to note that the terms of this agreement did not incorporate any provisions or incentives contingent upon the attainment of specific outcomes or successful results but were solely predicated on underwriting the requisite expenses for the genuine and unbiased execution of the study. Lumena, Inc. had no input on the design nor analysis of this study, apart from supplying MindGym’s content, delivery system hardware and software, and the 360 videos utilized in the VR.