The framing of this article is strange. It presents encountered emotions arrived at through meditation in a clinical setting, as if people may not expect underlying anxiety about their lives to emerge. If anything, this speaks to the human propensity (both good and bad) to endure despite the stacking existential odds of the modern social order. In other words, life is tough, it has always been tough, and there are ma…
Recently, a Promise-filled chunk of a code started throwing errors when I switched to Bluebird (instead of node's native Promises). I spent a good few hours figuring out what went wrong. Going back to native Promises, my code worked fine, but with Bluebird I got weird errors and stack traces.
I eventually figured it out, and it turned out the error wasn't mission critical but would've probably caused problems down the line. So finding it was worth it, even if the debugging, in a way, caused the program to blow up in my face.
Perhaps it's a bit like that. I believe regular meditation is unlikely to cause problems, but I am careful about, say, going to a week-long vipassana retreat because of various (thankfully not too terrible) mental health issues (and the same applies to hallucinogenic substances, among other things).