Christianity's repression of meditation

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We begin with the mental learn/teachings necessary for contact with intelligent infinity. The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence.

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The passive meditation involving the clearing of the mind, the emptying of the mental jumble which is characteristic of mind complex activity among your peoples, is efficacious for those whose goal is to achieve an inner silence as a base from which to listen to the Creator. This is an useful and helpful tool and is by far the most generally useful type of meditation as opposed to contemplation or prayer.

I was bored today and wondered what happens to the brain when one meditates. Ra speaks to the spiritual aspect of it but I wanted to see the physical aspect. Being that Ra says letting the mind quiet down till it is silent is the most useful meditation we can do, I went looking for some studies on this type of meditation and although most of the studies are on other types I did manage to find a few that focus on mental silence. Here's one:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777419/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corecgi/tile...58&r=1&c=1

Conclusions

The study shows that long-term practice of Sahaja Yoga Meditation is associated with larger grey matter volume overall, and with regional enlargement in several right hemispheric cortical and subcortical brain regions that are associated with sustained attention, self-control, compassion and interoceptive perception. The increased grey matter volume in these attention and self-control mediating regions suggests use-dependent enlargement with regular practice of this meditation.

and from wikipedia, I had to find the term for mental silence and apparently this is what it's called.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation#Mental_silence

Mental silence

Sahaja yoga meditation is regarded as a mental silence meditation, and has been shown to correlate with particular brain and brain wave activity.[sup][164][/sup][sup][165][/sup][sup][166][/sup] Some studies have led to suggestions that Sahaja meditation involves 'switching off' irrelevant brain networks for the maintenance of focused internalized attention and inhibition of inappropriate information.[sup][167][/sup] Sahaja meditators scored above peer group for emotional wellbeing measures on SF-36 ratings.[sup][168][/sup]

I hope this post isn't too off topic, just some info I dug up to convince only myself really on why I should meditate more often. Maybe it can be useful to someone else too.