Cheetah House Courses
Resources for understanding and navigating meditation-related adverse effects
Featured Courses
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Meditation-induced visual lights
CourseLearn all about meditation-induced visual light hallucinations, the neurobiology, tradition-specific interpretations and what they mean about your brain and meditation practice. A reading-based course. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$35
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Fear and Terror in Buddhist Meditation
CourseFear states like panic and anxiety some of the most common meditation-related challenges. This reading-based course unpacks Buddhist views and neurobiological mechanisms of meditation-induced fear and hyperarousal ✅ 1 CE Credit
$35
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Survivor Story: Scott
CourseScott Lippitt recounts his journey through meditation-challenges to the Cheetah House Care Team.
Free
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Coercion and Control: Who Is Responsible and Why?
CourseDeveloped by Dr. Lalich, the bounded choice framework explains how high-control groups create "self-sealing" systems through charismatic authority, transcendent beliefs, and rigorous systems of control and influence.✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Diet & Meditation-Related Challenges
CourseThis talk presents secondary findings of the Varieties of Contemplative Experiences study and offers biological and psychological hypothesizes regarding how and why dietary changes can impact meditation-related experiences. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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New Methods for Old Traditions
CourseTraditional research tools often miss the complex, dynamic realities of daily life—where meditation practice actually happens and where meditation-related difficulties often arise. Explore new tools for capturing these experiences. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Spiritual Emergency and the Varieties of Kundalini Experience
CourseDrs. Anya Foxen and Sravana Borkataky-Varma explore Kundalini experience and how practitioners may be better supported with access to cultural and historical frameworks. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Q & A Evan Thompson
CoursePublic discussion and Q+A with Evan Thompson, discussing his book, "Why I am Not a Buddhist."
$40
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Letters to My Former Self - Lama Adam Bener
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Beyond The Extended Mind
CourseDr. Krueger takes a deep dive into the philosophical underpinnings of scaffolding, rooted in “externalism” or how our senses-of-self are co-created (or “scaffolded”) through objects in the world, including AI-based technologies. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Meditation Sickness
CourseWhile contemporary science is just beginning to explore these phenomena, Buddhist communities across Asia have warned about “meditation sickness” for millennia. Could these materials transform the way we approach meditation in the west? ✅ 1CE Credit
$40
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Meditation, Culture, and Enlightenment Machines
CourseProf. David McMahan analyzes the role of culture in meditation & explains how meditative practices are inevitably embedded in a context of ideas, ideals, cultural sensibilities, and taken-for-granted assumptions. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Behind the Scenes at The Retreat with Madison Marriage
CourseMadison discusses the podcast series, The Retreat, which examined a popular global network of silent meditation retreats & the impact they had on some participants. Hear about the response to the podcast from fans of the network, insiders, & more.
$30
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Mindfulness and Neurodiversity
CourseHow does mindfulness meditation affect different kinds of brains and minds? ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Recovery, Reintegration, and Reclaiming a Valued Life
CourseJonny shares what has helped him and his clients to live with and through adverse meditation experiences and move to a place of recovery. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
Main instructors
Regular contributors to Cheetah House courses
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Dr. Willoughby Britton is founder of Cheetah House and director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University.
Jared Lindahl, PhD
Dr. Jared Lindahl has been leading the data collection, analysis, and writing of papers for the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014.
David Cooper
David Cooper has been a research associate and project coordinator on the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014. His contributions include recruitment, interviews, data analysis, and both lead and co-authorship on nearly every project publication.
Guest instructors
Nicholas Canby, PhD
Dr. Canby holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and specializes in the assessment of self-boundary phenomenology across various contexts, including meditation, psychedelics, and psychopathology.
Sarah Strohmaier, PhD
Dr. Sarah Strohmaier is a Psychology lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her PhD in Psychology explored the role of dose in mindfulness-based programs and practices to improve wellbeing.
Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain and two other books.