09-17-2014, 10:38 PM
Quote:Now I understand. You have a problem with the people who have this experience ...
It's not that I have a problem with people choosing their own beliefs, that's why I chuckled when I saw Parsons post, it's that I have a problem with beliefs that are conducive to mental illness. Mental illness is not something that is just always inherent in the individual, I have seen many, many otherwise perfectly functional people adopt new age beliefs and become more and more dissociated and eventually get committed to wards. The argument that they were going to become dissociated anyways regardless of beliefs is naive.
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.
If you don't have a problem with mental illness then I'm sorry but that's just cold. 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. lols intended please don't get as antsy as Parsons over here
Don't get me wrong though I didn't come here simply to dismiss the material, the discussion has been fruitful I think. I have put a lot of effort into understanding this material but at the end of the day I am not close to convinced.
And yes the Ra Material, being vague and cosmic in scope and also emphasizing transcendent notions falls into this category of new age belief