Dr Christine Kupfer is a medical anthropologist who is doing research on the Dark Side of Meditation. Previously, she has researched and published about Rabindranath Tagore’s spiritual philosophy and education, about mental health in India and about Ayurveda in Germany. She is the author of many articles, book chapters and of the book Bildung zum Weltmenschen: Rabindranath Tagores Philosophie und Paedagogik and has been editing the journal Gitanjali & Beyond. www.christinekupfer.co.uk