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Zetetic comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3) - Less Wrong
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A brief poke around in Google Scholar produced these papers, which look useful:
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation. Psychosomatic Medicine 65:564 –570 (2003)
Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention. COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE Volume 7, Number 2, 109-119
Long-term meditation is associated with increased gray matter density in the brain stem. NeuroReport 2009, 20:170–17
Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 April; 12(4): 163–169.
Much appreciated! I was hoping that I might be able to get some meta-analysis out of one of the meditation advocates, but unfortunately it has not been offered up.
I do not even know what enlightenment is (or if it is even an actual phenomenon, beyond placebo) in terms of physiology/brain chemistry. It sounds like a threshold dose of LSD, judging by the subjective definitions. Because of this, I am not interested in enlightenment, but I am interested on any known enhancing effects of meditation techniques.