San, read the article
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Posted by: JHB ® 01/04/2005, 17:06:12 Author Profile Edit Alert Moderators

San, As Jim says, the article mentions nothing about a 'spirit world'. In fact, it is quite clear that it is talking about the physical world, or more specifically, the brain. Secondly, there is nothing in the article to prove that the changes in brain activity observed in the experiments are beneficial to the practitioners. They may well be, but other studies have pointed to practitioners of meditation suffering from increased dissociation. Clearly much more research is needed in this area. But to repeat, this is an article about a physical phenomenon, not a spiritual one. Your views on the existence of a spirit world may well be right, but don't look to this article to support those views. All the best, John.

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