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You could do a lot of good therapy around your boundaries of disclosing vulnerable information with a stranger. A good therapist, and the right therapist for you, would support you in not disclosing more than you’re comfortable with.

The cargo cult science part was and is a big concern of mine as well. In practice it hasn’t been much of an issue. Yoga or music is another analogy for this — the theory isn’t nearly as important as the experience, and a lot of this eventually comes down to something more like practice and intuition rather than theoretical models.