Too spiritual?

[mikesc]

I should have said something earlier, but as this post is still getting responses I might as well offer my two cents. I absolutely agree that the way in which spirituality is percieved can affect people's ability to accept things that might in fact be helpful to them.

Personally it took way too long for me to accept that there were things that I could learn from spirituality. This was do in large part to the way in which I saw spirituality. Obviously I had my own issues that made it difficult for me to consider things that were too far outside of my personal paradigms. Even so I still tend to think that it could be portrayed in a different light sometimes. At the risk of sounding controversial I'll even go one step further and say that contrary to the idea that everyones opinions are equally valid, I tend to think that this is very much about understanding better understaning how things really work and that some people definetely have a better understanding of reality than others. Yet everyone has an effect on the way in which spirituality is percieved.

Looking back I'm constantly surprised at all of the silly things I've done that if anything have convinced people that spirituality is for people that are, well perhaps a bit confused. Looking forward, while I won't deny myself and my opinions, I certainly am aware that this this is a very real issue. In reality this has been good for me as I I have often found that no matter how strange a concept, if I'm thinking clearly I should be able to talk about it in a way that at least doesn't make me seem crazy. Whereas if I find that people are thinking that I'm crazy then there is a good chance that I need to make some adjustments. I suppose I've found that the same words, "That Mike and his crazy ideas," can have very, very different meanings.