[4gotunameagain]

This is fascinating, thank you for sharing.

I googled it and there seems to be an entire community of people doing or attempting to do that ?

Surely a symptom of the industrio/tech induced epidemic of loneliness.

A very interesting question on the ethical side as well.

My knee-jerk reaction is that the promotion and propagation of such methods should not be allowed, as it can risk nudging vulnerable individuals the wrong way.

But if this is not allowed, why would meditation be ?

What makes it different ? Only the outcomes ?

I cannot help but to be overwhelmed by the human condition sometimes.

[bdavisx]

>My knee-jerk reaction is that the promotion and propagation of such methods should not be allowed

Both you and the rest of the world would be better off not worrying about/trying to stop other people from doing things that don't harm anyone else.

[4gotunameagain]

I do believe that there is collective societal harm in some actions that on a first glance appear only self inflicting.

We are all parts of an interconnected whole.

Your freedom ends where the freedom of the next person's begins.

[buildsjets]

Are you really saying that you want to make thinking the wrong things a crime?

[4gotunameagain]

I specifically said propagation.

Which has of course clear precedent, the easy example to point out being Strafgesetzbuch section 86a.

[joseda-hg]

I recall finding them as a teen myself on the internet, there were books and stuff on the subject but it was treated like something that might be risky, in the best of cases you would end un with a benign tulpa worse case you end up similar to OP or worse

It was certainly treated as "underground" knowledge, less something like you would share and more something you would find on a chan