It's not the meditation that is destabilising. It's the weed: > I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at so

It's not the meditation that is destabilising. It's the weed: > I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at some turtles in an on-campus pond at UCLA. What's left unsaid is that the majority of this "practice" goes hand-in-hand with "recreational" use of weed. Scare quotes because once you start reading revelatory texts under the influence, and probably meditating under the influence, the road to psychosis is just a few turns away. I've had friends who went mad reading the bible or The Eagle's Gift, or The Tenth Insight, while smoking weed. I can't explain the mechanism, but smoking weed and opening yourself up to all the enlightened bullshit of the New Age, or the Old Religions, can tear a hole in your mental health, big enough for a truck to drive through. People who believe in the supernatural are already half-mad. The weed comes along and closes the deal. Without weed, meditation is as woo-woo bullshit for California yuppies as you thought originally.