| | I called for something like this during my presentation at Buddhist Geeks about 2 years ago, a Naturalist's approach, where we see what is out there in the wild world of meditation.
I think that this sort of work would be essential to bringing something of the scientific approach to the maps more than has already been done, and by scientific, I don't mean scientific materialist, but investigative, exploratory, documentational, curious, with an eye to figure out what this stuff really looks like as best we can, given people's biases for description.
I further think that we need to train Naturalist meditators who will go into this stuff with a critical eye for what is really happening and how this does or doesn't align with various maps and dogmas.
Some PhD candidate, research institute, or whatever would probably be needed, as that would help support the necessary rigor, etc. |