Meditation is hard to study scientifically for all the reasons it’s hard to study sleep plus all the reasons it’s hard to study weightlifting.
One thing I’d really like to see is pair-meditation or some other type of collaborative meditation. Meditation where body states are copied and/or the inner mental states are mirrored or shared possibly mutually with one or more meditation partners. Obviously, an endeavor that requires an extremely high level of trust. But this approach does have the chance of a) bringing some part of the meditation into the clearly observable range and b) allow a sharing of the experience and observations transitively.
One thing I’d really like to see is pair-meditation or some other type of collaborative meditation. Meditation where body states are copied and/or the inner mental states are mirrored or shared possibly mutually with one or more meditation partners. Obviously, an endeavor that requires an extremely high level of trust. But this approach does have the chance of a) bringing some part of the meditation into the clearly observable range and b) allow a sharing of the experience and observations transitively.