If you're considering a type of meditation, I suspect the consensus of Hacker News meditators is for Vipassana meditation. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032</a> The book is free. <a href="http://mail.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm" rel="nofollow">http://mail.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm</a>
Saw a link to the article on Dan Benjamin's Hivelogic and was wondering what you guys think.<p>The allegedly biased Wikipedia-cited scientific research:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#Scientific_research" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#Scien...</a><p>The article from Skeptic's Dictionary:<p><a href="http://skepdic.com/tm.html" rel="nofollow">http://skepdic.com/tm.html</a><p>MetaFilter thread on whether or not it's worth the $2500:<p><a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/22579/Is-it-worth-2500-to-learn-Transcendental-Meditation" rel="nofollow">http://ask.metafilter.com/22579/Is-it-worth-2500-to-learn-Tr...</a>
<i>Over nine years, 201 African American people with an average age of 59 and who had all been diagnosed with heart disease were randomly assigned to either Transcendental Meditation or health education classes about diet and exercise.</i><p>Where's the control group? Classes about diet and exercise can be rather stressful to overweight people...
"Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"<p><a href="http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html</a>