Abstract

A review of the book The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You? by Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm.

Highlights

  • Mindfulness, yoga and other forms of Eastern m­ editation are becoming increasingly popular in the West, as part of the religious traditions where they originate and in secular medical and therapeutic contexts

  • Overview The early chapters introduce the rationale for the research project and provide an overview of the p­ sychology behind potential change and transformation. ­Meditation, and in particular yoga, is being used within p­ risons to facilitate the transformation and rehabilitation of inmates but the evidence to support its effectiveness has a number of methodological limitations and inadequacies

  • A review of the considerable body of research into Transcendental Meditation concludes that it has moderate beneficial effects but that better and more elegant studies are required to address the grander claims made by its adherents

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Introduction

Mindfulness, yoga and other forms of Eastern m­ editation are becoming increasingly popular in the West, as part of the religious traditions where they originate and in secular medical and therapeutic contexts. The authors make explicit the role that their personal experiences with the techniques, as well as the relationships they formed with others who use them, had in their evolving thoughts on the topic. Overview The early chapters introduce the rationale for the research project and provide an overview of the p­ sychology behind potential change and transformation.

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