Omphaloskepsis

I subscribe to two word of the day sites: Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, and the Urban Dictionary; I don't love either of them. The latter is usually crude (like the last two words...you've been warned), though occasionally very clever, while the former is good, but not as exciting.

But every so often, I'll find a thrilling new word from Dictionary.com, and the title of tonight's blog is just one such word:

Omphaloskepsis

There is just so much fun in this word, and I don't even care what it means yet. Is it being skeptical of Ooompa-Loompas? Is it the sound you make when you hit a loskepsis really hard (Omph!)? It has "phalos" in there, so is it a naughty word? Usually when I see a word I don't know, I try to figure out what it means, and some of you Greek/Latin types may be already on top of it, but this one had me completely baffled.

The meaning makes me love it even more: 

contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise

You have got to be kidding me.
Here's the rest of the Dictionary.com email (they always throw in two ways in which the word has been used in literature):

There is a word for that, Greek, of course, which ha come into English: omphaloskepsis , or meditating while staring at one's navel. Marvelous, isn't it. I love words.

-- Lynne Tillman, Cast in Doubt, 1992

...as a mere illusion, who run away from it and devote their time and energy to occupations which Mr.Cardan sums up and symbolises in the word omphaloskepsis .

-- Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves, 1925

Origin:
Omphaloskepsis comes from the Greek roots omphalos which means "navel" and sképsis which means "act of looking."

So if you think about it, you could actually make a case that while you are chanting "Om," you're half way to omphaloskepsis. They've said so as much on the omphaloskepsis wiki page. Yes, it has a wiki page.
This will be a very handy word when you are filled with a room of people gazing at their navels, say, Congress or your church council or hippies.
Not surprisingly, it has religious connotations, not only for the Hindu, but one of my top 5 religious bodies, the Eastern Orthodox Church! The wiki page mentioned Gregory Palamas as well as hesychasm, otherwise known as the breathing prayer - hesychasts are able to pray "Lord Jesus Christ" on the inhale and "have mercy to me a sinner" on the exhale, thus taking the Scriptural dictum to "pray continually" literally. That seems like a whole other blog, but for now, let's just sit and contemplate the wonder of omphaloskepsis.
Would a practitioner of this navel-gazing mystical exercise be an omphaloskepsist? Or maybe an omphaloskepsister? If so, then would the male be an omphaloskepbrother?
So many questions - so few answers. If only I had some time to meditate properly.
Eww. Belly button lint.