Hannah Rosen
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first heard Nov 2024
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It can help alleviate back pain, decrease loneliness in older adults, improve memory, which is why Willoughby was.
so confused by her own results that showed meditation could have any kind of negative effect.
But that was just the first crack.
Dissociation is hard to describe and when you talk about it, it seems mild, but it's actually kind of disturbing for the people going through the experience.
One theory of why meditation might lead to dissociation is that meditation prompts the prefrontal cortex to essentially shut off.
That's the part of the brain that controls decision-making, high-level thinking, and emotions.
And without those emotions to project things onto, how you feel about your body, what you want for lunch, what happened yesterday, you can start to lose a sense of yourself.
Hence the dissociation.
Another kind of related theory is that meditation is all about putting yourself in the present, which can be good.
Until it's bad.
After the break, the dark side of meditation gets a little darker.
Willoughby Britton had started meditating so much that she was seeing literal stars, which is actually a phenomenon called Nimita in Buddhism.
Willoughby was also still dissociating.
Something she was told was a new stage of enlightenment called riding the ox backward.
And she was told to keep meditating.
But that only made things worse.
So she started interviewing meditation students and teachers about any negative side effects they might have experienced too.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask.
So these are cases of people who they didn't have these symptoms before.
They weren't diagnosed with, I don't know, schizophrenia or a propensity to, you know, hallucinate or have delusions or anything like that.
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