Scientific prayer?

[Puck]

This your argument as I see it:

1. Prayer is speaking to God
2. Gods do not exist
3. Prayer works
4. Therefore prayer describes something else and is an acceptable word to use

You can omit number one. Two, three and four accurately describes my argument. My point is that the traditional definition of prayer as being a communication with a deity should be completely disregarded, but it should still be recognized that prayer does work just as meditation, affirmations and even auto-suggestion through self-hypnosis seeing as though the same psychological process takes place when all of these are are employed. With that said, prayer can be seen as a systematic and scientific process as its roots are purely psychological.

By the way, the link above does consist of readable text. It is actually an entire book called The Psychology of Prayer. I have no idea why it would return no readable text for you, Void.