YES - I’ve been saying that for years, not just here, trying to convince people that all this “I must detach and renounce the world” stuff is dangerous as hell for the average non-hermit, and often felt like I was yelling into the void! 
I had a lot of these things, though thankfully I’m both crazy enough and stubborn enough that they merely provided the launchpad of my own ascent via the LHP, I posted about it here:
In the tutorial for core shamanism I have created, a large chunk of the Upper World section’s intro (where people meet ascended masters and so on) is a warning against this kind of problemas well, because I have seen far too many people who studied alongside me get led a merry dance, while practicing with great care and attention, through an excess of trust in spirits and the baseline notion that detaching from this world must always be good and holy. 
And I agree totally that the normal advice people are given, to become even more immersed, is toxic in the majority of cases, especially for the divorced and/or neurotic women who seem to make up 80% of clientele for these services, and who combine a childlike need to be led, with deep self-hatred (which overlaps into hatred of their society and everyday environment) and emotional instability.
PS Thanks for the article link, it horrifies me that “mindfulness meditation” is recommended so smugly right now to people with clinical depression, bipolar, and even PTSD, when Himalayan Academy, very conservative and traditional Huindu teachers, instruct that meditation is NOT suitable for people who regularly feel sad or angry, due to the energising effects on the lower chakras.