Hello any meditating brother out there has any book, app or article to suggest for a total newbie in the field?
Coming from a conservative western backround meditating was always something I thought was solely related to Asian culture and religions and to be honest I thought it to be bs, a fancier word for prayer. Now reading about it and from other people strongly suggesting it here for the things that you can gain/achieve from it, I'm willing to get educated about it and I'm intrigued about trying it out.
A bonus would be if you can enlighten me about meditation in the ancient western world such as I've read of nothing similar to it in ancient western philosophical literature, not a bigot thing, just informational.

Thanks.