Anecdotally seems that way to me. But the fact that it co evolved with religion is also relevant. The scam seems to be {meditation → different perspective & less sleep → vulnerability to indoctrination} plus the doctrine & the subjective experiences of meditation are designed to reinforce each other.
(The DMT LSD crowd seems more interesting to me eg the I2 in Leary’s SMI2LE—not just intelligence increase but conveys the idea of intelligence being used to improve intelligence.)
Why is meditation an infohazard?
Here’s a growing collection of links: https://wiki.obormot.net/Reference/MeditationConsideredHarmful
Anecdotally seems that way to me. But the fact that it co evolved with religion is also relevant. The scam seems to be {meditation → different perspective & less sleep → vulnerability to indoctrination} plus the doctrine & the subjective experiences of meditation are designed to reinforce each other.
(The DMT LSD crowd seems more interesting to me eg the I2 in Leary’s SMI2LE—not just intelligence increase but conveys the idea of intelligence being used to improve intelligence.)