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Saturday, 28 November 2020

Bhudism, New age Paganism and Meditation side effects

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403193/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879457/

Budhism and new age Mndfullness. The link above is a scientific white paper on the various

psycho disorders associated with meditation. Ground breaking in that  Islamic and alot of Christian perspectives have talked alot about how the jinns (shaitan) are involved in  pagan rituals. This serves as a blatant evidence in that experience. Below are selections from the paper which if anyone has a grounding in Exorcisms or dealing with the jinn (demons) will find it eye opening.

are multivalent in that in some lineages of Tibetan Buddhism they are deliberately cultivated and framed as “signs of progress,” and yet in other contexts can be dismissed as untrustworthy hindrances to genuine insight [39]. In Zen Buddhist traditions, the term makyō refers to

a class of largely perceptual “side-effects” or “disturbing conditions” that arise during the course

of practice and which are also sometimes interpreted as signs of progress [40, 41]. Zen traditions

have also long acknowledged the possibility for certain practice approaches to lead to a prolonged illness-like condition known as “Zen sickness” [42] or “meditation sickness”


Śūraṅgama Sūtra—a classic text of Mahāyāna Buddhism—enumerates fifty deceptive or illusory

experiences that are associated primarily, though not exclusively, with the practice of concentration (samādhi). The Sūtra particularly warns about pleasant experiences that lead the meditator

into a false sense of spiritual progress, which results in misguided thinking and conduct [43].


Some modern accounts also include reports of monks becoming “mentally unstable”

in the wake of such states [46]. O


For phenomena about which little is known, qualitative studies that ask open-ended questions are the most informative and produce the richest phenomenological data about meditation-related experiences. In a pioneering project, Kornfield (1979) [84] conducted a mixedmethods study of American Buddhist meditators during a 3-month Vipassana retreat. While

this study did not specifically probe challenging or difficult experiences, the open-ended query

about “unusual” experiences yielded reports uncommon in the research literature, including

strong negative emotions, involuntary movements, anomalous somatic sensations, and out-ofThe varieties of contemplative experience

PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176239 May 24, 2017 4 / 38

body experiences. More recently, Lomas et al. (2014) [85] asked active meditators to “recount

their involvement with meditation,


    

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