Do you guys actually believe this stuff?

[JustLikeYou]

A huge part of this is because new age beliefs do not put a particular emphasis on discriminating fact from fiction as they are so expansive and vague. The individual can literally just make s*** up and it be "true" for them, they construct their own world. This often leads to an dishonest and bizarre interpretation of experience as the individual can assume something to be true simply because they would like it if it was. It eventually gets much darker though once they're a slave to their imagination.

All spiritual beliefs are dangerous. Christianity is a great example, as is Islam.

If you don't have a problem with mental illness then I'm sorry but that's just cold.

I don't have a problem with it anymore than I have a problem with cancer. I want these things to be reduced in the world, but I don't think fighting is the way. I prefer to promulgate that which is healthy rather than attack that which is unhealthy.

And as far as the Ra Material goes, you are right that there is danger in misapprehending what Ra intends. But I'm not going to admit to you that Ra's philosophy, clearly grasped (or reasonably clearly, I'm measuring by my own subjective standard here), is unhealthy. I've found the opposite to be true.

Besides, the ship has sailed on New Agey Stuff. It exists out there in abundance and we're just going to have to deal with it.

If I may take a leaf from the self important all knowing hippy attitude, you simply can't understand until you have this superior experience, unless you have it you will live and die wallowing in the ignorance of the true nature of reality.

Har har. I'm serious about that. I'm not saying I've had some superior experience. I don't know anything about you, so what the hell do I know? But I am saying that the perspective you tend to take indicates that you do not have access to the central element that draws people into the new age ideology. It is not merely an "I can believe whatever I want" mentality.

For what it's worth, space cadets drive me crazy, too. I call them "New Age Fairies".

Reductio ad Hitlerum

I'm going to steal this (even though I made a Nazi analogy earlier).