Meditation experiences through a developmental lens: Does the “Stages of Insight”, a Buddhist model of meditative progression, apply to contemporary meditators?
May 27, 2025 Prai Wattanatakulchat, Julieta Galante, Timothy Wood et al. preprint
Objective. Unwanted meditation-related experiences commonly occur and alternate with positive experiences over time. So far, effects have been studied as discrete events, creating difficulties to predict challenging experiences. We explored meditation experiences through a developmental lens, investigating whether a modern interpretation of the Stages of Insight (SoI), a Buddhist model of...