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Can confirm from personal experience. Even a lot of vipassana meditation by itself can send you into psychotic states when you're not ready for all the insight yet. I came very close to psychosis once, experienced ego death, broke down mentally and had to spend 2 months in a depression ward. Cannot recommend.

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'ego death' can be really scary at first. There is an entire article in wikipedia about it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death ) and how to integrate such experiences.

ego death and the resulting occurrences of depersonalization and lack of training/experienced people to help deal with the trauma is dangerous

Dark night of the soul? How long had you been meditating? Was it with a teacher?

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