Avoiding getting Lost in the Pneuma

[rmcdra]

My tradition warns about becoming "lost in the Pneuma". This is when someone goes into the Light and gets "lost" in it. They become disconnected with the body and the mind. I personally have not experienced this yet because I have many things in my life that keep me in touch with reality. The advice I was given if I did come to this stage was to stay in touch with the fundamentals of my tradition.

Is there something similar to this in other religious traditions? What advice does your tradition give to avoid the respective situation in your tradition and religion?  

[Gho the Girl]

rmcdra

My tradition warns about becoming "lost in the Pneuma". This is when someone goes into the Light and gets "lost" in it. They become disconnected with the body and the mind. I personally have not experienced this yet because I have many things in my life that keep me in touch with reality. The advice I was given if I did come to this stage was to stay in touch with the fundamentals of my tradition.

Is there something similar to this in other religious traditions? What advice does your tradition give to avoid the respective situation in your tradition and religion?

That tenet seems a little anti-buddhist.  

[Wrath of Ezekiel]

Gho the Girl

rmcdra

My tradition warns about becoming "lost in the Pneuma". This is when someone goes into the Light and gets "lost" in it. They become disconnected with the body and the mind. I personally have not experienced this yet because I have many things in my life that keep me in touch with reality. The advice I was given if I did come to this stage was to stay in touch with the fundamentals of my tradition.

Is there something similar to this in other religious traditions? What advice does your tradition give to avoid the respective situation in your tradition and religion?

That tenet seems a little anti-buddhist.

Agreed. It seems anti-Atman realization like in Hinduism also.

I have poked at the light. It doesn't want me yet so I'm forced to stay in reality. gonk  

[TeaDidikai]

I have heard of (and seen, sad to say) similar things.

A psychic vampire I know refers to this as "Shaman's Disease", another I know calls it "Shooting up the Middle Pillar".

I can't say I have ever seen this within my family tradition. I suppose it is likely that the prohibition against leaving one's body is actually part of the entrenched protection against such things- but then, the core of my tradition makes it impossible to do such ourselves.