I found this article on http://www.niburu.nl/
I thought it was in interesting research and i think it gives a positive view on spirituality.
I'm curious what you all think and what you think this could mean in the future? Should we all meditate?

Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

In one area of gray matter, the thickening turns out to be more pronounced in older than in younger people. That's intriguing because those sections of the human cortex, or thinking cap, normally get thinner as we age.


"Our data suggest that meditation practice can promote cortical plasticity in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being," says Sara Lazar, leader of the study and a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. "These findings are consistent with other studies that demonstrated increased thickness of music areas in the brains of musicians, and visual and motor areas in the brains of jugglers. In other words, the structure of an adult brain can change in response to repeated practice."

I'm not so sure that the meditation itself does this.

It could well be a side-effect of more things.

Eg. people that meditate are doing something else too, that causes this. I don't meditate much, and I haven't meditated my entire life, but I still notice that my brain gets more active and so, simply because of how I live my life. Meditation only seems to help clearing my mind, which would more be seen as: getting it to rest.

I'd say that the meditation itself doesn't cause the increase, but its like a stretching excersise. Stretching only doesn't cause muscles. But training muscles only doesn't help that much either. Doing both gives the most progress.

That's a reasonable theory Chip! I think it's a quite sharp conclusion. If you put it this way i also think ther must be more that causes this. But the article also says that meditating helps the brain processes and the well-being of one. So in what way do you live? What do you see as the other factor besides meditation?

I also think that meditation doesn't give you a bigger brain. I actually never meditate, but my brain is very big .