Ever since I saw catya's post about it, the thing has been sticking in my mind. I'd love to go, and dancingwolfgrrl (I almost wrote dancingworfgrrl...heh? Do I think she's klingon? Weird. Moving on...) said that it might be possible for me to swing it, financially. Tempting tempting...

And you've summarized a lot of what I think about wifty stuff (I keep reading wifitti there!). I would add to it the research being done about meditation and other spiritual disciplines and how they affect not just biology but biochemistry and biopharmacology. Blood pressure, depression, blood sugar and other disorders have been dramatically affected by spiritual discipline. So I feel like the sprit/science divide is not nearly as wide as both sides often think it is.