Great to see you baaaaack!!! =) ~ "Know thy Self" some say this is the purpose of the Soul or the name of the game so to speak.. I`ve heard some great teachers talking about this, Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Paramahansa Yogananda (Self realisation fellowship...) People should seek Gurus or join The Self Realisation Fellowship in order to take a "inner step closer" to God (YOU)~ Thou art God ~ that said, I'm sure their doing it right no matter what =)
Thank you for your kind words but forgive me if you are disillusioned by what I am going to say about the "self realization fellowship" as you call it- I am anti-group think, therefore I will be advocating self-sufficiency in this regard whenever and wherever possible. There are many teachers, many paths, yes. But usually in life the greatest teachers I have known were not gurus. Also, there is a dangerous desire in a lot of seekers (who for the most part are heavily leaning on the people pleaser/codependent spectrum) to give everything they have up for a belief system. That is cult thinking and narrows things down, not opens them up. Lots of people in the new age movement find a guru, become ensnared, get addicted to their babble, and then realize they weren't what or who they said they were- and then go out and repeat the same process over and over again. Lots of predatory manipulators out there in the "self realization fellowship" so my role hopefully is to get a small sliver of people who listen to actually start listening to themselves. Most people don't want that. They want to externalize and sit on a lily pad and listen to the guru. That's not what this is about. It's about getting yourself out of your codependence and into being a true grown up. The world needs grownups, not gurus.
Unknown, you're name says it all. "People should seek gurus", ???? The word should is friggin irrational anyway but looking for answers for yourself in the beliefs of others is just about the worst thing a person can do.
Yes we need grown ups, we need to be accountable for ourselves and what we do and say. The people telling us what we should do, and what we should buy, and what we should be doing or how we should act to better people , those people have an agenda and that agenda is totally detrimental to our well being and our prosperity. All of us. But as single thinking individuals we have it in us to be better just by doing what feels true inside us. All the gurus and cult leaders out there cloud the process and set us up to fail. Be your own guru, and find your answers yourself...Spoiler alert. You won't get that "inner step closer to God" from "the self realization fellowship", my friends.
Oy vey.
Anya, I'm glad you decided to do this and I'll def check out your channel to pick up what you're putting down. ;)
Great to see you baaaaack!!! =) ~ "Know thy Self" some say this is the purpose of the Soul or the name of the game so to speak.. I`ve heard some great teachers talking about this, Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Paramahansa Yogananda (Self realisation fellowship...) People should seek Gurus or join The Self Realisation Fellowship in order to take a "inner step closer" to God (YOU)~ Thou art God ~ that said, I'm sure their doing it right no matter what =)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words but forgive me if you are disillusioned by what I am going to say about the "self realization fellowship" as you call it- I am anti-group think, therefore I will be advocating self-sufficiency in this regard whenever and wherever possible. There are many teachers, many paths, yes. But usually in life the greatest teachers I have known were not gurus. Also, there is a dangerous desire in a lot of seekers (who for the most part are heavily leaning on the people pleaser/codependent spectrum) to give everything they have up for a belief system. That is cult thinking and narrows things down, not opens them up. Lots of people in the new age movement find a guru, become ensnared, get addicted to their babble, and then realize they weren't what or who they said they were- and then go out and repeat the same process over and over again. Lots of predatory manipulators out there in the "self realization fellowship" so my role hopefully is to get a small sliver of people who listen to actually start listening to themselves. Most people don't want that. They want to externalize and sit on a lily pad and listen to the guru. That's not what this is about. It's about getting yourself out of your codependence and into being a true grown up. The world needs grownups, not gurus.
DeleteUnknown, you're name says it all. "People should seek gurus", ????
DeleteThe word should is friggin irrational anyway but looking for answers for yourself in the beliefs of others is just about the worst thing a person can do.
Yes we need grown ups, we need to be accountable for ourselves and what we do and say. The people telling us what we should do, and what we should buy, and what we should be doing or how we should act to better people , those people have an agenda and that agenda is totally detrimental to our well being and our prosperity. All of us. But as single thinking individuals we have it in us to be better just by doing what feels true inside us. All the gurus and cult leaders out there cloud the process and set us up to fail. Be your own guru, and find your answers yourself...Spoiler alert. You won't get that "inner step closer to God" from "the self realization fellowship", my friends.
Oy vey.
Anya, I'm glad you decided to do this and I'll def check out your channel to pick up what you're putting down. ;)