Re: Meditation and Serotonin Syndrome

Dear Dr. Spira,

Thank you for your reply.
The concerns regarding meditation and Serotonin Syndrome come from some websites that are dedicated to hinder the spreading of Transcendental Meditation. Such sites are www.trancenet.org, or www.unstress4less.org, for example.

At the beginning, I believed that all the contents of these websites are reliable, and that the sites are built with an honest purpose. But later on it turned out for me that they are strongly exaggerating things, and are unboundedly striving to deter people from learning TM by all means --even by unfair means.
It turned out for me that they fancifully identified the symptoms of Relaxation-Induced Anxiety with the symptoms of Serotonin-Syndrome, and blurred these two phenomenons together, without any scientific basis.
The concrete article that did this, is the following:

http://unstress4less.org/transcendental_meditation-tmresearch-serotonin.htm

I consulted with a meditation expert on article. He firmly belied the contents of it, with the following additional remark:

"The excessive enthusiasm of the US Rightist forces to scare American Christians away from Hinduism and its meditative practices is best evidenced here."

So, this is the story of "Serotonin Syndrome" and Meditation. Bizarre indeed.

Dr. Spira, don't you think the something should be done about this? Shouldn't the real meditation experts take action against these sources emitting such false information? Shouldn't www.unstress4less.org be written to, and, so to say, "admonished" by the society of meditation-expert clinicians?

I would be grateful to receive answer from you to the following address:

holics@axelero.hu

Yours sincerely,

Laszlo Holics

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Re: Meditation and Serotonin Syndrome, by Meditator, 11/06/03

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