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To: Rick Julian who wrote (25121)	10/1/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

"(atheists can mediate, of course)" Oops, that was a typo. I meant "meditate." I'll reply regarding atheists and meditation in a little while.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (25121)	10/1/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

Meditation is simply an exercise involving an extended focus on a particular subject, symbol or feeling. It is associated with certain brain waves and brain chemicals and other physical reactions. It often makes people feel serene, and happier. The physical effects are measurable in a number of ways. I suppose it releases endorphins. When atheists meditate on the folly of solving large puzzles by postulating a larger one, (a version of debt consolidation) they will normally come away from the experience having derived the elevating, calming outcomes that meditators who focus on religious concepts do. The particular subject I just proposed for an atheist to meditate upon I chose for purposes of humor, of course. An atheist who meditates would more usually be using the exercise to come to terms, philosophically or emotionally, with any number of personal life-struggle questions of the same sort a religious person needs to deal with; or simply to achieve a desirable inner calmness.