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Am I going mad?: Adverse meditation events and the anthropology of ethics
Author(s) -
Mckay Francis
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12710
Subject(s) - meditation , anthropology , sociology , philosophy , theology
There has been growing interest in meditation adversities amongst mindfulness communities in recent years. This article documents US meditator distress upon experiencing incoherence in the eclectic resources supporting their practice. How might the anthropology of ethics consider self‐cultivation practices when the traditions supporting them fail due to incoherence? We need further research on moral bricolage to answer that question.

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