{"id":3120,"date":"2018-08-21T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2018-08-21T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:51:13","slug":"the-idea-of-secular-meditation-is-a-dangerous-chimera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/the-idea-of-secular-meditation-is-a-dangerous-chimera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of Secular Meditation is a Dangerous Chimera"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, to summarize, the dangers of modern research into the effectiveness of secularized meditation are these: a) most such efforts are directed towards the potential side-effects, both good and bad, of secularized\u200a\u2014\u200aand preliminary level\u200a\u2014\u200ameditation only, yet the results of such limited studies are promiscuously applied to all meditation, including traditional meditation practices; b) researchers are handicapped by a worldview which specifically excludes the actual focus of traditional meditation practices<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@StillJustJames\/the-idea-of-secular-meditation-is-a-dangerous-chimera-fbf14735f1d5\">The Idea of Secular Meditation is a Dangerous Chimera<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, to summarize, the dangers of modern research into the effectiveness of secularized meditation are these: a) most such efforts are directed towards the potential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}