“I was trying to save the world”: delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation
Frontiers in Psychology October 24, 2025 Elizaveta Solomonova, Jared R. Lindahl, Ian Gold et al. 1 citation
Delusional ideation is characteristic of psychopathology (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder) and is also found among the general population. Contemporary case studies have documented delusional ideation as a feature of meditation-induced psychosis, and Buddhist literature on the side effects and adverse effects of meditation also includes discussion of transient experiences that could be...