"'Meditation per se should be taken as a uniquely Asian phenomenon which, wholesale, has only recently come to the attention of the West. In its new Western context, particularly in the United States, however, it has undergone significant reformulation. In the U.S. it has become indigenized, so that now one can say that Asian forms of meditation have become thoroughly Americanized."
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Eugene Taylor (psychologist)
1946 – 2013
Eugene Taylor (1946–2013) was a scholar on William James and a professor of psychology at Saybrook University and Harvard University
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