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In late 2022, the seventh paper from the Varieties of Contemplative Experience (VCE) project was published. Entitled The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges, the paper was authored by Jared Lindahl, Roman Palitsky, David Cooper, and Willoughby Britton, and was published in the journal Transcultural Psychiatry. Previous research has shown that worldviews can change during periods of crisis and that worldviews can both provide a coping resource as well as contribute to distress. Accordingly, we wanted to know what role worldviews and changes in worldviews were playing among meditation practitioners in the VCE study. The research team spent nearly one year reanalyzing the qualitative data from each practitioner and found that worldviews served five distinct functions in the context of challenges.
Some practitioners and teachers explained that training in Buddhist worldviews could have a preparatory function that could help to alleviate or mitigate against challenges or distress. Conversely, some also said that it was a lack of worldviews that contributed to or furthered meditation-related distress. Worldviews could also serve to normalize meditation-related challenges by situating them within an explanatory context, whether religious, psychological, or scientific. However, various kinds of worldviews were identified as being risk factors for meditation-related challenges; these included idealization of teachers or teachings, viewing difficulties in terms of a purification narrative, beliefs leading to a striving or effortful approach to meditation practice, and specific challenges associated with both Buddhist views and psychiatric appraisals. Finally, meditation practitioners described how their interactions with Buddhist and scientific worldviews changed over time required interpersonal and social negotiation, raising issues around the types of expertise (or lack there of) held by both meditation teachers and psychiatrists, as well as concerns around lack of fit or cultural mismatch. Indeed, as found in other research, meditators who actively engaged with assessing their worldviews and their goals for meditation practice typically rated that as being helpful, and none reported such engagements as harmful to any degree. Understanding how practitioners and teachers navigate various worldviews is particularly important given that religious, psychological, and scientific interpretations of meditation-related challenges are available to meditators in the west.
This event take place Wednesday February 15th from 11 - 12:30pm pacific time / 2 - 3:30pm eastern time
The IndoctriNation Podcast: Unsilenced w/ Meg Appelgate
Meg Appelgate is the CEO of Unsilenced, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to stop institutional child abuse by empowering self-advocates to promote lasting social change.
I made over a million dollars selling products for a multilevel marketing company — but it came at a cost.
"Emily Lynn Paulson is the author of the upcoming book, "Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing," a memoir about Paulson's time selling skin care products for "Rejuvinat" (not the company's real name). She writes about how she was a top seller who earned over a million dollars along with lavish vacations and a new car — but also ended up with an addiction, ruined friendships and more. This is a personal essay she wrote for TODAY about a moment during that time that she wishes she could take back. "
NBC Connecticut: Police Arrest Former Actor Turned Alleged Cult Leader, Raid His Nevada Home in Sex Abuse Probe
Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, who goes by Nathan Chasing Horse, was taken into custody in the afternoon near the North Las Vegas home he shares with his five wives
" ... His arrest is the culmination of a monthslong investigation that began after police received a tip in October 2022. According to a 50-page search warrant obtained by AP, Chasing Horse is believed to be the leader of a cult known as The Circle.
According to the warrant, Las Vegas police have identified at least six alleged victims and uncovered sexual allegations against Chasing Horse dating to the early 2000s in multiple states, including Montana, South Dakota and Nevada, where he has lived for about a decade.
There was no lawyer listed in court records for Chasing Horse who could comment on his behalf as of Tuesday evening.
Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.
In 2018, according to the warrant, he was banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking.
"Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and their belief system as a tool to sexually assault young girls on numerous occasions," it reads, adding that his followers believed he could communicate with higher beings and referred to him as "Medicine Man" or "Holy Person."
Although the warrant includes details of crimes reported elsewhere, the arrest stems from crimes allegedly committed in Nevada's Clark County. They include sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child younger than 16 and child abuse.
Some of the alleged victims were as young as 13, it said. Police also said one of Chasing Horse's wives was offered to him as a "gift" when she was 15, while another became a wife after turning 16.
Chasing Horse also is accused of recording the sexual assaults and arranging sex with the victims for other men who allegedly paid him."
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