Meditation Sickness

A Sourcebook on the Dangers of Buddhist Practice
Everyone knows that meditation is good for your health and wellbeing. However, a percentage of people practicing meditation experience psychotic breaks and related adverse mental and physical side-effects. Are these symptoms of improper practice or an unavoidable part of spiritual cultivation? While contemporary scientific literature is just beginning to document such phenomena, Buddhist communities have for centuries warned practitioners about "meditation sickness," "wind illness," "demonic attack" and other potential dangers. Due to language barriers, their important writings have remained virtually unknown in western medical, scientific, and practitioner communities. Here, for the first time, historical and contemporary teachings on the topic from around the Buddhist world have been brought together. The works not only identify these ailments as possible side-effects of meditation practice, but also explain why they arise and how they can be effectively prevented and treated. Meditation Sickness will transform the way we think about meditation in the west.

Contributor: C. Pierce Salguero (Edited by), C. Pierce Salguero (Contributions by), Bryan De Notariis (Contributions by), Bhikkhu Anālayo (Contributions by), Charles DiSimone (Contributions by), Eric M. Greene (Contributions by), James A. Benn (Contributions by), Paul L. Swanson (Contributions by), David Carpenter (Contributions by), Michael Sheehy (Contributions by), Juhn Ahn (Contributions by), Leslie E. De Vries (Contributions by), Leo Lok (Contributions by), Daniel M. Stuart (Contributions by), Swe Swe Mon (Contributions by), Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (Contributions by), Dixuan Chen (Contributions by), Francisco Figueroa Medina (Contributions by), Trang T. D. Nguyen (Contributions by), Céline Coderey (Contributions by), Daphne Weber (Contributions by), Nathan Jishin Michon (Contributions by), Kin Cheung (Contributions by), Susannah Deane (Contributions by), Ben Philip Joffe (Contributions by), Ira Helderman (Contributions by), Willoughby Britton (Contributions by), David J. Cooper (Contributions by), Nathan E. Fisher (Contributions by), Jared Lindahl (Contributions by)

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