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The neuroscientific literature provides evidence that meditation may have measurable effects on the electrophysiological activity of the brain. We utilize a single-sensor EEG device to compare meditation and baseline epochs from a cohort of 31 long-term meditators from Tibetan and Indian monastic backgrounds. We show that our support vector machine approach can distinguish between these two states with balanced success rates over chance, and in some cases over 90% on a second-to-second basis.