Modern journalism is much more about selling the story rather than listing the facts and citing evidence. He did state that he experienced Altered State of Cons

Modern journalism is much more about selling the story rather than listing the facts and citing evidence. He did state that he experienced Altered State of Consciousness and that at least some students in 19 strong study did too. The result is unsurprising to me because that is a known property of meditation. The app itself combined traditional audio meditation techniques with a visual component, so the real question is what visual component adds to the experience. Given that audio stimuli works to help induce meditation, it is highly likely that there is a way to tie in a visual component in a synergistic way. As someone who dabbles in meditation I would like to see a study with a lot more people split into 3 groups: control group who are put in same environment without anything, group with audio component only, and a group with both audio and video component. P.S. in additional to audio stimuli there are many other techniques that can induce ASC: concentrating really hard (this one is for flow most of us are familiar with), smells, walking, breathing patterns (including breathing super rapidly and over oxygenating), dancing, yoga/exercise routine, etc.