When you say \u201cmeditation,\u201d what do you mean? Is there a specific practice or set of practices you have in mind? I am genuinely curious. I am a 69-year-old Catholic, well-ensconced in Holy Mother Church with absolutely no desire to \u201cswim the Ganges,\u201d as one might say. Still, I have read a bit on Vedanta recently and it\u2019s interesting. That\u2019s part of what prompts my question, I suppose.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Here<\/a> is part of my answer.\u00a0 More later on specific practices and ‘swimming the Ganges.’ Feel free to ask me any question about it.<\/p>\n Tom Carroll asks, When you say \u201cmeditation,\u201d what do you mean? Is there a specific practice or set of practices you have in mind? I am genuinely curious. I am a 69-year-old Catholic, well-ensconced in Holy Mother Church with absolutely no desire to \u201cswim the Ganges,\u201d as one might say. Still, I have read a … Continue reading “Meditation: What and Why”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14115,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meditation.jpg\")
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