> I really don't understand why the world just accepts that meditation as a whole is not just another version of snake oil. I don't know what world you're in,

> I really don't understand why the world just accepts that meditation as a whole is not just another version of snake oil. I don't know what world you're in, the 'meditation is eastern/new-age woo' seems to me very much the default outside of a certain Ram-Dass/Alan-Watts/Hari-Krishna crowd.