It is notable at the author keeps using frames like "harmful", pathologizing what is really just direct contact with one's sensations and experiences. A less en

It is notable at the author keeps using frames like "harmful", pathologizing what is really just direct contact with one's sensations and experiences. A less enculturated person might be able to go with the flow they've newly tapped into without fighting it. There's a lot of grasping ego. The thing they don't seem to get is that what they are experience may just be normal consciousness to many people who don't have a mind that is continually discriminating and sorting. I take more as an indictment of the disconnection our culture creates in people than the practice itself.