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ANYWAY, here're my predictions:

Psychology will merge with Eastern philosophy but the terminology will remain Western. The techniques used to understand and overcome problems will still be mindfulness and acceptance. A licensing board to teach meditation will form and psychotherapists will get dual licenses. Meditation will become an essential part of psychotherapy, but it will be channeled into physical activities like yoga, or exercise, or jogging. People will begin practicing these activities in groups and in communities, led by the therapist/meditation instructor. The internet will be used more and more to disseminate practical advice on how to deepen understand and how to meditate. Small schools will begin to splinter off of bigger movements and then things'll really get rollin'.