Thank you so much for posting that link and I completely agree. So many times I'd see New Agers bullying someone in the name of trying to "enlighten" them by bludgeoning their spirits with their self appointed "truths". I've been told that I'm "addicted" to my condition. That if I just exercise control over my consciousness, I won't have PTSD or OCD anymore. I'm still "letting the abusers have control" because I still react to sudden movements, still have flashbacks, still fight every day to try to live beyond the range of certain memories. I need to "transcend my fear" y'see. If I just meditated better, differently, more...I'd be free. The fact that I'm not yet free indicates that I'm not enlightendedy enough yet, that I'm holding on, maybe out of some sense of karmic debt, and I need to examine the "payoffs of pain" that I'm doubtless getting from everyone around me. I'm creating this reality after all, so I need to just re-think, envision, imagine, project, say some affirmations.. If I object or express a different perspective, then I haven't "gotten it yet" (the phrase which DROVE me from the MFA program I was attending in the New Ager University I went to). The whole thing is the same old crap message: "I" am better than "you". I "get it" and you don't. You're a "lesser being" than I am and if you'll just do what I say and act like I act, you can convince people you're more than you are - that you've "figured it all out" and have a life filled with stripping others of their power, condescension and the dispensing of pithy simplistic advice.
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:15 pm (UTC)I've been told that I'm "addicted" to my condition. That if I just exercise control over my consciousness, I won't have PTSD or OCD anymore. I'm still "letting the abusers have control" because I still react to sudden movements, still have flashbacks, still fight every day to try to live beyond the range of certain memories. I need to "transcend my fear" y'see. If I just meditated better, differently, more...I'd be free. The fact that I'm not yet free indicates that I'm not enlightendedy enough yet, that I'm holding on, maybe out of some sense of karmic debt, and I need to examine the "payoffs of pain" that I'm doubtless getting from everyone around me. I'm creating this reality after all, so I need to just re-think, envision, imagine, project, say some affirmations..
If I object or express a different perspective, then I haven't "gotten it yet" (the phrase which DROVE me from the MFA program I was attending in the New Ager University I went to).
The whole thing is the same old crap message: "I" am better than "you". I "get it" and you don't. You're a "lesser being" than I am and if you'll just do what I say and act like I act, you can convince people you're more than you are - that you've "figured it all out" and have a life filled with stripping others of their power, condescension and the dispensing of pithy simplistic advice.