Tag: Meditation

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Meditation isn’t always safe.

November 2, 2025

Meditation isn’t always safe. “Meditation can cause disabling psychiatric breakdowns lasting years… Mild emotional disturbances, confusion, and odd sensations are common.” While the ancient practice is often touted for its benefits, the risks associated with intensive meditation remain under-discussed. It’s […]

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When Buddhism goes bad

August 23, 2021

“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 […]