Wendaline wrote:
True, I guess you can.
However, it's still not really a newage problem. It's the way individuals choose to think. People can get over "firewalls" and listen to things that maybe they don't want to hear. It's just some people don't want to. And their decision not to is all them...and nothing else.
The reason why a lot of people refuse to hear me out (in my experience) has been because it sounded too newagey, anything past the word meditation gets ignored.
This is because of all the ideas and concepts the person has built up, the past experience with silly people doing silly things.
All of those preconceived ideas and opinions get barfed up into a firewall that stops anything I say from having meaning or being taken seriously.
In their minds I sound like this:
You know man you just gotta like find inner peace and stuff man, and like chillax man, and like focus on the breath man, and like go on a spirit quest man, with a spirit stick man, let the guardian spirits of the spirit stick like help you find your guardian spirit animal man...
You would be amazed at how many think my teachers didn't know what they were talking about, etc. LOL what? The top experts in the field, don't know what their own field is about?
This is because people are already invested in other ideas, and other teachers, and other culture and make sense of it through those lenses.
It's really hard if not impossible for me to reach through all those layers upon layers of junk and say no it is nothing like that, but they refuse to listen.
It's very frustrating.
