Materialism and Meditation

I became wary of the more extravagant claims for the value of meditative exercises some time ago.For one, it seemed that wherever we turn our attention, that experience/place becomes foregrounded, taken out of the context of its part in the overall functions. It seemed that a lot of our ordinary human self-experience is made to seem extraordinary by doing this. I have been wondering for some time what the knowledge was that the Buddha discovered.https://michael9murray.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/buddhism-taking-stock/There are now many very useful studies of the state of society and development of northern India of his time. Many of the studies have been dispassionate and scholarly; Academia.com has been very useful here.I came across this paper a short while goThe mind’s abyss: exploring the adverse effects of distinct forms of meditation by Bence Szaszkó, Ulrich S. Tranhttps://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/2/2/10.20935/MHealthWellB7666 The writers look at research into ‘focussed…