When Buddhism goes bad

“As an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I spent four years teaching meditation as a full-time job.” Then one day, Dan Lawton discovered firsthand the rarely-discussed evidence of meditation’s risk, “including involuntary convulsions, panic, anxiety, dissociation and perceptual hypersensitivity—a far cry from the mainstream branding of mindfulness meditation as a panacea for all our woes.” | learn more