All subjects were non-meditators (that’s explicit in the paper). Beliefs, otoh, are bullshit.
The self-annihilation subaspects they used included “decomposition of the body,” which monastics are supposed to contemplate with horror. Would be interesting to know if that comes up higher than the others. cc: @NinaStrohmingerpic.twitter.com/eNyaAjl4mv
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I wonder if the fact that monasteries garrison people outside of a normal familial and societal context leads to an atomization that would increase their focus on the individual self?
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Could be. Although they are themselves close-knit communities, like army units (which may successfully train soldiers to place unit over self). And in many cases they’re closely interwoven with secular community life as well, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
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