Comment by JohnMakin
1 month ago
I have been studying and practicing tibetan buddhism for a little over a year now, particularly dream yoga, but branched into some of the other practices. I'm always a skeptic but it is fascinating some of the stuff they can do. There is scientific evidence they can raise and lower their body temperatures through meditation, withstanding great heat/cold and deprivation conditions. I've played around with deprivation and what it has done for my mental health and body has surprised me. I'm but a novice, but I absolutely believe they are tapping into something scientific about the body/mind that is still unknown.
There are reasons to be extremely skeptical about some of their claims, but, some of it is very interesting and credible.
Do you have some literature resources on where to start reading on that stuff?
the translation of their texts is widely available, I started with tibetan yoga and secret doctrines by evan-wentz. There’s a lot of lore and tradition you need to understand for some of it but the gist is there.