Does Meditation Work?

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The only real thing we have of thoseof our loved ones who die is our memories. The moment a talk to the dead medium says, i'm with your grandma, that person has distorted your genuine memories and mixed them with the sludge of fiction for their own enrichment. We need something more than 'it worked for me' - meditation works on 60% of people in one hour a day five days a week but it doesn't work all the time. It's not enough to say, well, yet, i use meditation and i feel better. Okno, but we need more than that. So what do you say to somebody ike atony robins atend, who would

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