> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fairfield Ledger, Front page bottom fold: > > > > > > > > > > > > "According to a 2007 U.S. Census Bureau Survey, nearly 10 percent > > > > > > of the population over 18 practices some form of meditation, up > > > > > > from about 8 percent in 2002. > > > > > > > > > > > > Locally, both transcendental and Buddhist meditation techniques are > > > > > > growing in popularity, Iowa City instructors said." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > * 10 percent! * > > > > > > > > > > > > > Like, even some local main-street churches have offered folks > > > > "centering" prayer now. Times change. Even our local Methodists are > > > > offering classes. Rocks are melting? There's been a local bastion > > > > falling. The Lutherans next? > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Keating defines centering prayer as "a very simple method in which one > > > opens one's self to God and consents to his presence in us and to his > > > actions within ..." > > > > > > > To God, the 'Unified Field'. > > > > It's interesting how it has gone, Catholic Father Keating took the ball and > > ran with it back in the 1970's and now it has crossed over gone viral even > > amongst some Protestants. It's like basic meditational spirituality going > > mainstream in current. > > > > > Trending even now by evidence of science, meditation in practice is rising to > being taught in Doctor's offices as secular public health policy. >
A lot has happened since Yogananda came to the West in the first half of the 20th Century and urged then that the scientific process of research on meditation get going from then to show that something real is there in the discipline of meditational spirituality.
