Rev. Danny Fisher

Via Wildmind Buddhist Meditation: A blog post at Short Sharp Science reports on findings by neuroscientist Giuseppe Pagnoni and his colleagues at Emory University which suggest that “trained Zen Buddhists return to a state of inner calm faster than people who don’t practice meditation.” The study, which used twelve experienced Zen Buddhist practitioners and twelve control subjects, was published under the title “‘Thinking about Not-Thinking’: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation”, and can be found online here. Short Sharp Science feels that the findings have implications for the neurological study of Jedi mind tricks, but no such studies are being undertaken at this time.