I’ve heard some scary stories about potential bad outcomes from meditation. These outcomes seem to mostly be from people practicing insight meditation for very long periods of time, though.
This seems extremely important to the research I’m doing right now. Can you please share more or point me in the right direction?
This seems extremely important to the research I’m doing right now. Can you please share more or point me in the right direction?
I’ve collected some links in this Twitter thread.
I’ve been collating some at https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/meditation/index as well.
This is a recent story of this type: https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad
MCTB also has some more descriptions of bad meditation experiences.
https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/i-believed-the-hype-and-did-mindfulness-meditation-for-dumb-reasons-now-im-trying-to-reverse-the-damage
and some links therein