The Importance of Mindfulness in Meditation

There's a whole bunch of woo schools about meditation. One end goal is to turn your mind on itself and you sort of lose the sense that you have a self at all. I find that intriguing because that's an actual claim about something like, oh, if you do this, here is a possible result. But there's another part of me, which is just a little bit intrigued like, maybe I just have a totally wrong brain for this, and I'll get nothing out of it.