A scientific investigation begins about the demerit "demon" caused by "meditation"

It is known that the IT industry giants such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were working on itmeditation"Is gaining worldwide attention as being brought into the training program of a large enterprise as refreshing the brain to bring about various positive effects. However, it is not only a good effect for meditation that anyone can easily do, "DemonWe also know that the bad effects called "hidden" are lurking, scientific research on the demons has begun.

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239#sec028

What does meditation help? The benefits and surprising drawbacks of the art of meditation - Quartz
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It is said that "meditation" where tools are unnecessary and can be easily casually started by anyone brings out excellent effects such as relaxing the brain, relieving stress, promoting fatigue recovery of the mind and body There are enthusiasts all over the world. However, it is also known that by meditating, negative influences appear, such as sensation being sharpened too much, hallucinations being visible, auditory hallucinations, obsessions with obsession. The negative influence of this meditation is called "demonic" and there are many people who will experience in a few months after starting to meditate. By the way, meditation is expressed as "meditation" in English, but the demon is described as "makyo".


Various studies on meditation are done, but the phenomena occurring in the brain is not scientifically proven. Nevertheless, the current situation is that research on magic is not advanced, but Dr. Jared Lindahl who studies religious studies at Brown University and Associate Professor Willoughby Britton who studies psychology meditate in 60 people tackling meditation in an interview format Listen to the experiences, the actual condition about the magic is reported in it.

The interview was that those who started just meditating, including veterans who have reached the area of ​​"rookie" and "master", many people were experiencing more than 10,000 hours of meditation experience. Dr. Lindahl and colleagues reported that there are seven sensations categorized as "cognitive", "perceptual", "emotional", "physical", "conscious", "subjective" and "social" I identified 59 kinds of undesirable feelings without it. This uncomfortable sensation includes relatively unexpected symptoms such as "anxiety" "terror" "insomnia" "emptiness feeling" "hallucination of light" "hallucination" "distortion of the time and space" "hypersensitivity" "dejab" It seems to have been included from mild "temporary" things up to "persistent" severe symptoms that continue to be effective.


In the research by Dr. Lindahl et al., A pattern of sensations occurring in the so-called "demonic world" has been discovered, and in the research further advanced, a unique pattern on the factor "what state of people do the magic experience do?" I am trying to find out. By increasing the number of subjects and increasing the number of samples, there seems to be a possibility that it will lead to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that triggers the magic and the effects of the demonic itself.

In addition, subjects who told demonic experiences in the study of Dr. Lindahl et al. Did not necessarily regard the magic as a negative thing. Some of the respondents seemed to have some people intentionally avoided the word "harmful" and wanted such an expression as "challenging". Although the elucidation of the phenomenon is still a "devil" just beginning, the subjective perception of the experiencer itself may also play a major role in elucidating the influence and effect of the magic.