The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges

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ID2395517
AutoresJared R Lindahl (Brown University), Roman Palitsky (0000-0002-0415-6411, Brown University), David J Cooper (0000-0003-3391-3538, Brown University), Willoughby B Britton (0000-0002-2983-0863, Brown University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume60
Fascículo4
Páginas637-650
Data de publicação2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13634615221128679
PMID36476189
OpenAlexW4310964635
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas47

Previous research has shown that worldviews can serve as a coping response to periods of difficulty or struggle, and worldviews can also change on account of difficulty. This paper investigates the impacts worldviews have on the nature and trajectory of meditation-related challenges, as well as how worldviews change or are impacted by such challenges. The context of meditation-related challenges provided by data from the Varieties of Contemplative Experience research project offers a unique insight into the dynamics between worldviews and meditation. Buddhist meditation practitioners and meditation experts interviewed for the study report how, for some, worldviews can serve as a risk factor impacting the onset and trajectory of meditation-related challenges, while, for others, worldviews (e.g., being given a worldview, applying a worldview, or changing a worldview) were reported as a remedy for mitigating challenging experiences and/or their associated distress. Buddhist meditation practitioners and teachers in the contemporary West are also situated in a cultural context in which religious and scientific worldviews and explanatory frameworks are dually available. Furthermore, the context of 'Buddhist modernism' has also promoted a unique configuration in which the theory and practice of Buddhism is presented as being closely compatible with science. We identify and discuss the various impacts that religious and scientific worldviews have on meditation practitioners and meditation teachers who navigate periods of challenge associated with the practice

Buddhism · Contemplation · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Meditation · Psychotherapist · Situated · Sociology · Behavioral Health and Interventions · History · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology