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A couple years ago there was an article in The New York Times and it was this article

written by this Canadian guy talking about how he went on a one-on-one month long meditation

retreat with a doctor in rural Alabama at a weird long story. I won't give you the whole

thing anyway. It was really well written.

So I actually tracked down the writer, the aforementioned Canadian guy whose name is Jeff

Warren and basically strong armed him into being my friend because the writing was so good.

And over time I learned that he's got a ton of experience in meditation. He's actually

a meditation teacher and I subscribe to the newsletter for his little meditation group

in Toronto and the newsletter itself is so incredibly well written and it looked like

this group was doing so many exciting things. I honestly at moments felt like I wanted

to move to Canada. The name of his group by the way in case you're curious you can look

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