Science and Meditation

More and more scientists are confirming the age-old belief that meditation improves brain function and your overall life:

• Take a deep breath; meditation may boost brain size and increase mental performance, according to new research
• The Links Between the Dalai Lama and Neuroscience
  

Some experienced practitioners are complaining that "science" is lagging far behind ancient wisdom. "Duh" is right, but remember that the scientist's work on the job is not necessarily her belief. Most of these scientists doing meditation-neuroscience research are already well aware of the significance of meditation and spiritual practices in everyday life. In fact, some of them are risking their necks and their paychecks trying to validate their beliefs. Grants don't come easy for people trying to show the masses that we don't need to buy more shit from corporations and that war and hate are actually bad for living things.

Let's give it up to these folks for trying to bring enlightenment, albeit in a roundabout manner, to the stubborn and the brainwashed. For example, check out Dr. Vernon Woolf, the quantum physicist who scientifically formalized a method to travel across hypersace and talk to your own Buddha nature. (He calls it something else, of course: the "Full Potential Self.")