Too spiritual?

[rva_jeremy]

My concern is that some people get carried away and begin to feel they are somehow about to transform into a glowing ball of light, there are people calling themselves wanderers and speculating about what density they are from, and labelling themselves with titles that, quite frankly are a bit nauseating. I mean I've noticed people calling themselves 'christed being' and various other kinds of labels, talking too much of love and light, some unfortunately start to behave in a horribly false delusion that they are somehow better than others.

I know exactly what you're talking about. I've encountered this much more, to be honest, in other metaphysical fora than here. Here it is just about the most balanced I've ever found, probably because there's a theme in the spiritual tradition we follow of eschewing the transient.

I echo what others have said about why this is perceived negatively. When a person offers these extraneous details and seemingly self-aggrandizing information, it is a kind of challenge. Do you accept what the person is telling you as valid or truthful, or do you reject it? As we struggle to accept we have to also face the fact that accepting pieces of information we fundamentally think are untrue or suspicious isn't really accepting at all. That's what I run into; maybe you have run into this conundrum, too.

For my part, we need to be aware of two dynamics and understand that, one, the other, or both are at play. On the one hand, our path is lonely as a mofo. People who are waking up to the energies will definitely have a confused experience of them. I know this because I share this confusion. On the other hand, there are people who, in their desire to connect, don't do a very good job of communicating. They oversell it.

To me, this is a similar situation to what I was talking about in another thread where people participate in this forum in a rigid and self-certain manner, coming across as instructing rather than sharing. It feels like these people are trying to smother us with their own sense of the Creator and undermine the view we have. They have no credibility, in other words. It's feels not so much like a matter of accepting and loving as it seems of the kinds of judgments we make moment after moment as we experience the Creation. "Is that glass positioned in a way it won't fall?" "Is this salesman lying?" "Which stock should I purchase?" We are constantly making decisions about the credibility of information. This forum won't be different.

But, of course, the answer is love, at least in my experience. Why do these things bother us? Because we're uncertain of our path, and the other's certainty - correctly or incorrectly placed - reminds us of our own lack of certainty. If this impels us to seek further within ourselves for something we can hold onto, then that is a net gain for us. If it motivates us to find a way to have an authentic connection with these people, so that we help them be grounded in something that builds real community and support for them, then that's a net gain for us. These opportunities exist.

Remember: the only thing we have true control over in this world is ourselves. And the more we can radiate something authentic and credible and able to bring people to common understanding, the more we set a tone where the distortions of these people are either healed or unable to impress themselves on what we're building.