> "A lot of Buddhist or meditative practices also have close student-teacher relationships. You should have an active human coach guiding you through the proces

> "A lot of Buddhist or meditative practices also have close student-teacher relationships. You should have an active human coach guiding you through the process" This seems to also open the door to a lot of fraudster con-man types and cults, so worth being wary of that relationship imo. The author seemed to have experienced a bit of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization which I've felt before and can be quite scary.