Occult friends: What specific risks are you aware of associated with occult study/practice? (For my risks research) Assume I have covered: - Apophenia/insanity - Identity destabilization - Enduring hallucination - Summons out of control - Social distance - Delusion What else?
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I’ve seen stuff like dramatic spasms quite a bit. There are a bunch of things which get attributed to meditation, but it’s a nuanced anthropological question eg: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-019-00774-1 … Digestive issues also get attributed to the yogic process quite a bit
Reading life stories of famous yogis, you see claims of illness caused and/or healed by meditation practice Jigme Lingpa describes extremely severe back pain & elephantiasis Patrul Rinpoche describes healing something like bubonic plague All to say be careful and take w/ salt
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The cause & reality of these conditions are very unclear ofc. I recently learned about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_neurological_symptom_disorder … Which reminded me that mind is remarkably bizarre and complex, and almost anything could have potentially dramatic effects
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Probably pretty real to the person suffering
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Yeah the book
@AdeleDeweyLopez pointed me to in the last thread goes into a lot of this and I’m drawing on it heavilyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes to the above, and to put it in more general terms (ones less specific to Tibetan medicine/Vajrayana) some unwanted side effects could look like: • kundalini syndrome https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Kundalini_syndrome … and / or • spiritual emergencyhttps://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-empowerment-diary/201507/is-it-psychosis-or-spiritual-emergency%3famp …
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