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Newsletter Nr. 1.241
Amsterdam, October 3, 2024


WILLOUGHBY BRITTON AND THE DARK SIDE OF MEDITATION - GARY STOGSDILL

Perhaps if we understood more about the history of meditation as a systematic practice, we would naturally approach it with needed caution. Meditation in Ancient India was not an early attempt at self-improvement, and it was not created for psychological well-being or relaxation. Quite the opposite, meditation was primarily developed by extreme ascetics who had renounced the world, to be used as a tool that would increase existential anxiety and cause disgust for human existence so as to propel the practitioner toward moksha, or liberation from the predicament of being human and encountering suffering continuously through the cycles of death and rebirth.

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