Should I just use a meditation app​?

Here’s 5 things most people don’t know...

1. Apps have an extractive revenue model.
   The unspoken premise is that you’re on a treadmill subscription, in the same way a for-profit drug company wants you stay on their expensive drugs, not outright cure you.  Similarly, apps are not designed to make you independent of them.
    
2. Apps’ value appears high yet it’s throwing spaghetti at the wall.
   They offer loads of pre-recorded programs and it seems like it’s a great value.  But in that, there is no direction, no focus, no steady opinion on the shortest path to achieving your goal.  And sustaining it for life.
    
3. Apps are designed for convenience, taking away the human touch.
   If you have no one in front of you who’s been where you are, guiding you, providing feedback to your heartfelt questions in the moment, then you’re going to feel frustrated, left to figure it out on your own.
    
4. Apps claim to be helping you while they’re actually limiting you.
   Apps cannot provide the reliable, nuanced guidance on how to reconnect with the root of your being, the Infinite.  It’s just much easier for them to focus on limited, finite pathways.  This puts you on a busy treadmill to nowhere, with tiny gains compared to what you could be having.
    
5. Apps bolster spiritual theater or they bolster the intellect.
   Either way, it’s you that misses out.  Neither approach takes you to the raw peace of your innermost being.