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How to distinguish devotional connection from psychological merger

I keep hearing my teacher's voice in my head telling me what to do and I can't tell if this is guru yoga working or if I'm having a psychotic break.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intense guru-student relationship is creating mental phenomena that could represent authentic spiritual guidance or concerning loss of psychological boundaries.

Ideas that help explain it
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