>>12987151Potentially. If you're under a high amount of stress it could be detrimental to your intelligence, and meditation does help with that. Focus, too.
>>12987171>>12987217Do you have access to a research database through your university? Maybe with medical research? Type in "meditation". Just with one database I've found over 15,000 peer reviewed studies which support its effectiveness in a myriad of domains. But, of course, because you view it as "spiritual" and you believe anything "spiritual" is automatically false, you'll ignore empirical evidence that's easily available to you to satisfy your biases.