One of the characters in a story of mine is a meditationist. Weird word, but I know not of a better. Anyway, she meditates. What physiological effects does that have on the body? What weird phenomena are possible because of it?
A couple of thoughts for you meditationist. Not knowing the genre she lives in some or all of this may be meaningless! She 'allows' blind people to see through her eyes. When she meditates, entities from an other universe can see into her universe. She can heal people by entering their consciousness and assisting their brains to repair what ever is wrong. She can send her consciousness into anyone anywhere to enable her to 'see' through their eyes. To experience things through them.
MC
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
The main aspect of meditation is relaxation, when your body is relaxed it heals faster. Some claim to have out of body experiences because of their meditation. Others Hallucinate. Sometimes when I meditate I hear things that have been said to me, sometimes in odd orders. Nothing metaphysical more like they do it in Simpsons.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
It's "meditator" if you're simply referring to a person in the act of meditation. If you're talking about someone that regularly meditates, then you would specify the particular discipline, "Franciscan", "Zen Buddist", "Yogi" and so forth.
Since one reason to meditate to to achieve control over physiological effects, the effects can vary widely based on what type of meditation is used and for what purpose. You can do a lot of stuff. Some of it is pretty "weird".
Since you're apparently just doing this for flavor, try learning more about a particular meditative discipline (Yoga is always popular) from both skeptical and practicing viewpoints.
Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :
A fairly broad, but interesting article (at least a place to start) on meditation. It lists related links and references.
Also, I think your use of the word 'meditationist' is just fine if this is something this person does for living--an interesting idea if that's where you're going.
[This message has been edited by djvdakota (edited November 30, 2004).]