I mean, no doubt there are truly astounding physical specimens out there whose control over otherwise autonomous human biological systems is attributable to years of daily meditation practice. But the problem I have is with how the meditation process is defined, measured and controlled. I would venture a guess that the pecentage of meditators who succeed in bringing about noticeable physical changes is probably somewhere between 0.05%-0.10% of the total number of meditators. Which is still plenty of people considering the ranks of meditators the world over, only you don’t know which ones are going to succeed at it.

It also seems impossible with today’s medical technology to compare what two different meditators may be doing inside their heads, assuming that they accomplish the same effects.

If Mr. Myers still gets his quarterly rag from RPI, there is a good article in the current one about the directions and goals RPI’s cognitive research program. They’re doing a lot of nuts and bolts type stuff in observing, recording physical activites and correlating them to what’s going on in the study participants’ heads at the same time. Perhaps the RPI folks would be willing to team up with Lutz, or at least share the RPI methodology.