Talk:Meditation in popular fiction

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Hi all,

This article was created in response to a dispute over the main meditation article (see Talk:Meditation#Jedi). It is a place to put fictional references to meditation, visualization, contemplation, mantra, yoga, and related disciplines. Please add more as you come across them--or specific references (so far sorely lacking) to episodes, page numbers, etc. Also, the article so far contains only science fiction references, but is not intended to be restricted to science fiction--some examples of meditation in other genres of fiction would certainly add to the quality. Cheers--Pariah (talk) 23:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iain M. Bank's Culture

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I have a feeling that in some of the Culture novels Banks describes Culture citizens using meditation to initiate/stimulate healing processes (similar to Teal'c in SG1 and the Jedi in Star Wars come to think of it) and to alter physical traits. Off the top of my head, I believe that Excession details these processes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.67.45 (talk) 20:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

You're right--I'd forgotten about the culture novels. Yeah--there's some mention of the use of meditation in the process of subliming in Excession and Look to Windward, and indeed the culture citizens use a form of relaxation / visualization to change their sex, weight, height, etc. I'm pretty sure he main character in Consider Phlebas uses a similar process to take on the likenesses of other people. I don't remember the healing part, but I haven't read all the Culture novels.--Pariah (talk) 20:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)