Starting the "what is good?" Brief

I want to impart a bit of background as to why I picked meditation to research about. Over the summer I looked into "meditation" out of interest to see whether it did have the calming effect evryone goes on about, so yeah basically learnt about it for a few months and now practise basic meditation methods in everday life... and its nothing like you imagine - sat cross legged shouting "OHM". Its just little techniques you can learn to help chill and gain clarity in life.

Heres a short list of the sort of things I want to research into:

Falun gong in china

What is considered a meditation

How to do it

How its considered in society

How it effects everyday people - e.g, enlightened buisnesses.

"New age teachers" e.g Eckhart Tolle.

"Consciousness shifts" <>

I think there is alot to go on with this as a research subject and it will quite quickly gather a momentum of its own because at this stage in my life it is an interest just like music or art is. I'll post up more findings after some delving.