One form of scientific materialism is that matter is the essence of existence. In that view, we study matter because we study what is real, not imaginary things. This view is not in opposition to the study of meditation because our thoughts, our mind, etc. are just an expression of the essence of existence, whether we call it matter is irrelevant.
However, a stronger form of scientific materialism insist that our thoughts and our mind cannot *through meditation* participate in new fundamental laws like the ones we have in chemistry, biology, etc. In this view, the study of the mind and thoughts is only valid as long we separate it from the teaching of meditation.
Not all meditations are equivalent. Some forms of meditation has been shown to have *systematic* effects on our body and on our environment. The challenge is that we can't separate a meditation from its teaching : one is the result of the other. Usually, the teaching is provided by an independent organization.
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