Science is the new excuse for close-mindedness in the modern world. "I don't believe it before I see it" has been replaced by "I don't believe it before I see peer reviewed research papers about it, which I can easily digest through a news outlet". Who needs curiosity or open-mindedness when you can just wait for others to do the heavy lifting for you.
DISCLAIMER; OF COURSE the scientific method is great. But if you swear by not believing anything that hasn't been peer reviewed, you might come late to the party. In this case, a millennia or two late to the practice of meditation because there wasn't enough research on it, and because it was "too mystical", shivers. Who would have thought that sitting and quieting the mind could be so scary?
DISCLAIMER; OF COURSE the scientific method is great. But if you swear by not believing anything that hasn't been peer reviewed, you might come late to the party. In this case, a millennia or two late to the practice of meditation because there wasn't enough research on it, and because it was "too mystical", shivers. Who would have thought that sitting and quieting the mind could be so scary?