I attended a seven day retreat and was distracted by the spiritual aspect of the teachings. I understand that meditation has thousands of years of history. It appeared to me that the past few decades of scientific inquiry into meditation were not part of the discussion.
Experiences by teachers and students were reported subjectively in the form, "Here's my report on what I felt." Typically the language used for descriptions was imprecise, like "I feel and energy in my hands."
I too felt sensations which I expect are physiological (rather than a mental impression of a sensation). Therefore these experiences should be measurable. I'm specifically interested in non-invasive non-disruptive measurements that could be done for a few hundred dollars. (A functional MRI would be great, but I don't have access or funds.)
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