Naina is a scholar-practitioner of Vajrayāna Tantra and a psychedelics researcher at the University of Exeter, supervised by Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Dr Leor Roseman, and Professor Celia Morgan. Her research explores

Mapping Unitive States

Mapping Unitive States—profound experiences of oneness—through The View (Madhyamaka and the Nālandā tradition), integrating phenomenology and ontology. She developed the Vedanta course in Exeter’s postgraduate Psychedelics programme and is creating Svarasa, a non-dual meditation and soundscape project with award-winning composer Robot Koch.Mapping Unitive StatesMapping Unitive States  Unitive states—profound experiences of oneness and self-boundary dissolution—are arguably among the most therapeutically significant states of consciousness. Today, they are studied in psychedelic-assisted therapy and contemplative science.  This talk presents an interdisciplinary approach to mapping unitive states by integrating The View, rooted in the Nālandā tradition’s Mādhyamaka philosophy. These states have been explored for centuries through meditative practice as insights into the interdependent, non-dual nature of reality. By bridging Eastern and Western philosophies with phenomenological methods, this talk proposes an emerging ontological taxonomy, offering novel insights into these transformative states.