I just want to share something that I think is a very good sign. The Capitol Police have named A woman Yogananda Pittman as acting Chief . I don’t know anything about her other than her name is Yogananda which I am taking as a positive whisper from the Universe that DC is being watched over. ❤️
We frequented the gardens in Encinitas CA at his Self Realization Fellowship there. A beautiful spot.
I was watching all of this because of a worrying trend in what I'll call conspirituality taking place. It was catching fire with people on the far left who adhere to New Age-type philosophies or practices.
That meant to me that people who are open to/tend to have more extreme views—on the far left and the far right—are necessarily more vulnerable to taking as truth (highly) extreme ideas.
There's a whole thread about why so many spiritual people are being caught up in QAnon. "Conspirituality" brilliantly characterizes this phenomenon. You've also gone a long way towards explaining why I don't put much stock in online chatter about starseeds. Many of the people who are writing about starseeds online seem to be taken in by the belief that there's an evil race of lizard people who are trying to secure resources for their home planet. I think the concept of Reptilians is really just a projection of the collective human shadow.
Your "conspirituality" word caught my eye! I just read an article today about it. My acupuncturist shared it as she and I were talking about how we noticed folks on the far left falling for Q. I think I can post the link here...
You are absolutely right - the far right and the far left seem susceptible. As I stated when I reposted this article on FB, ultimately, regular critical thinking, common sense, and being able to admit that there are no absolute guarantees in life can go a long way towards mitigating falling into these traps of thought.
To me, susceptibility to conspiracy theories highlights in an extremely painful way the distinction between intuition and magical thinking. Intuition is the gestalt crystallization of information based on cues and clues that may not be obvious on a superficial level -- the evidence is there, but requires verification, just like any other form of evidence.
Q and such ilk solve the verification problem by claiming insidious forces make verification impossible. And people buy it, which just sickens me. I need to go get a cup of tea and not think about it for a while.
The mass disinformation campaign that caught up virtually all of the Capital rioters in its net (hint: it's identified by a letter that follows "p" and comes before "r" in the alphabet) was designed based on game theory. Its ability to draw in and keep people obsessed with finding "evidence" of the conspiracy it claims is afoot cannot be overstated. It was created to be addictive, which is why it succeeds so well at brainwashing.
I have never thought of this before, addictive like gaming.
Thank you.
p.s.- I have understood everything you have written today. ha ha ha.
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Thank you for stating that so clearly - the difference between intuition and magical thinking. That helps me when thinking of what happens on this site vs. other things.
Many of the people who are writing about starseeds online seem to be taken in by the belief that there's an evil race of lizard people who are trying to secure resources for their home planet. I think the concept of Reptilians is really just a projection of the collective human shadow.
I'm with you. All that never seemed "right" to me.
I think the concept of Reptilians is really just a projection of the collective human shadow.
You know already that I feel likewise, but I'm restating it here for emphasis.
The thing about mass shadow/the morphogenic field of the collective unconscious, however, is that it's "sticky." It ... attracts. Over time, its strange energies can even produce autonomous entities. Egregores and tulpas and the like.
That said, I totally feel what all of you are saying about the intense starseed communities. The constant "lizard people" talk comes without much rational inquiry; it's simply swallowed whole as fact. I'd like to see a lot more pause for discernment. More ...agnosticism, if you will.
I also feel that many in that space are there, consciously or not, because it psychologically affords them a "special" status, some form of enhanced belonging and worthiness.
Though, I also feel compelled to say that I don't immediately throw out the possibility (of reptilian beings or anything else). In the words of quantum theorist, Brian Greene, "Anything that can happen will happen, an infinite number of times." Hell, we happened. I'm also an "experiencer," as they say. I don't know what to make of my experiences, but they were enough to keep me humble about precisely what "can happen."
Moreover, I know a couple of people—whom I trust; they have a lot of wisdom and integrity—who say they've experienced non-human intelligences, some of which one might describe as reptilian (also mantid-type beings and "grays"). And they both claim to have had good and bad exchanges with these beings.
No group is a monolith, I guess. Just like us, these other beings—if they exist—appear to range from compassionate helpers (lightworkers, you might say) to self-serving sociopaths with no empathy or concern for what we think or feel.
TL;DR
I neither believe nor disbelieve. But when I see total and unquestioning adherence to any idea, my skepticism kicks up.
Really beautifully said.
regular critical thinking, common sense, and being able to admit that there are no absolute guarantees in life can go a long way towards mitigating falling into these traps of thought.
Amen!
HA! I'm glad I could actually type sentences that make sense today. ;) ?
Not sure what you're saying "yes" to, but it made me laugh to read it.
If anything good comes up, "@" me in the conspirituality thread.