My experience with Sufi and secular-buddhist (Headspace) meditation teachings is that the psychological breakdown is expected. Meditation is supposed to tear yo

My experience with Sufi and secular-buddhist (Headspace) meditation teachings is that the psychological breakdown is expected. Meditation is supposed to tear you down, and then build you back up again. However, some people get "stuck" in teardown phases (the Sufi term is "intoxication" or "annihilation") and then take a long time to recover, or never recover at all. However the "annihilated" phase is merely a stage on the journey, not the end. The perfect master returns to the world a normal person on the outside, but utterly transformed on the inside.