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Willoughby Britton - When Meditation Causes Harm

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Meditation Induced Light Experiences - What Do They Mean?

Sally Kohn: I have a whole bunch of different models, actually the first. My second confession is that I ended up marrying my co-author, Jared Lindahl. His dissertation was on experiences of light and luminosity in both Christian and Buddhist contemplative practices. So we come up with a theory called homeostatic neuroplasticity. And so the idea behind that is that there are certain dimensions of meditation practice that mimic the dimensions of sensory deprivation.

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