The biggest thing in Spirit Tech this week

Precision Neuroscience raises $250M Series D

Precision Neuroscience announced an oversubscribed $250 million Series D fundraise, bringing total funding to $430 million.

Precision Neuroscience's Layer 7 is a minimally invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) built around an ultra-thin, flexible electrode array that sits on the surface of the brain rather than penetrating brain tissue.

The array is thinner than a human hair and packs 1,024 electrodes in roughly a postage-stamp-sized area, allowing it to record, and potentially stimulate, neural activity at high resolution.

While the near-term use cases are clinical in nature, increasingly sophisticated interfaces for reading and eventually modulating brain activity are part of the underlying technology stack that will power the next wave of state modulation in Spirit Tech.

Also this week

Designing online spiritual care

Spiritual care in the US is critically under-provided, and Online Spiritual Care Communities are one proposed solution.

A new national survey of 1,010 people asked professional spiritual care providers and the people they serve five questions around anonymity, visibility, timing, institutional affiliation, and moderation.

Both groups converged on the same answers, preferring anonymous posts in public threads, replies written over time rather than live chat, a named institution behind the platform, and moderation by professionals.

Anyone building spiritual care software now has new insights from users and the professionals who would staff it.

DEA proposes putting five additional psychedelic tryptamines into Schedule I

The DEA proposed Schedule I control for 4-OH-DiPT, 5-MeO-AMT, 5-MeO-MiPT, 5-MeO-DET and DiPT. If finalized, researchers handling them would face the federal registration and controls applicable to Schedule I substances like LSD and psilocybin.

While the FDA is actively developing new pathways for therapeutic psychedelics, the DEA is simultaneously proposing tighter controls on several less-studied compounds.

The Science of Advanced Meditation

The 2026 Science of Advanced Meditation Conference took place September 23rd, hosted by the Meditation Research Program in affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

The conference brought together leading researchers and contemplative scholars from around the world to discuss the latest discoveries and emerging future directions within the field of advanced meditation research.

Meditation research is moving past generic mindfulness to measuring and understanding the deeper states and stages of contemplative practice. As we better understand the science of advanced meditation, we can craft advanced meditation tools and resources to benefit more practitioners.

Company Spotlights

• Glorify: Christian devotional app with daily readings, guided prayer and meditation
• Nectara: Free psychedelic preparation and integration platform with courses, live circles, peer community and vetted 1:1 guides

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New Jobs This Week

• Embedded Developer @ Muse: Build firmware end-to-end for the EEG headbands that give real-time feedback on meditation and sleep — from bootloader to shipping hardware. Remote-first (Canada) · 5+ yrs.

• Partnerships Manager @ Waking Up: Run partner and affiliate relationships for Waking Up, Sam Harris's meditation-and-philosophy app built on neuroscience, philosophy, and daily practice. United States · $100k–$130k.

• Development Associate @ Fireside Project: Drive fundraising and donor engagement for the nonprofit behind the free Psychedelic Support Line, offering confidential peer support during and after psychedelic experiences. Remote.

Browse the Spirit Tech jobs board for more roles, or to post one at your organization.

New from the Community

• Mana: Somatically trained AI relationship coach. Build stronger, more secure relationships.

Check out a variety of other new ideas and products across Spirit Tech.