01-02-2013, 07:54 AM
I think maybe one aspect of this is to teach the New Age community to not be so smug towards those they consider spiritually less evolved. How many of us smirked when that preacher was saying the world would end in May? We smirked and laughed at the stupidity of the people who gave away all their possessions because they believed so strongly they'd be raptured up. After all, it said so in their Bible! And New Agers laughed.
The whole 2012 thing was pretty much the New Agers' version of the Christian rapture idea. We did the very same thing they did. We just thought we were smarter about it. We believed an ancient calendar, that had been proven accurate, instead of an ancient book that had already been proven inaccurate. So we were more intellectual about it.
And, we had Ra's teachings to back up that calendar! Never mind that Ra never actually said we'd go poof on a certain date. A lot of that just got piggy backed onto the Mayan calendar phenomenon.
Even those of us who weren't poofers - we prided ourselves on believing the planet would, as Q'uo said, "move serenely on" - still secretly hoped something dramatic would happen on Dec. 21. I didn't think we'd all go poof, but I sure did want to see some major change, like an end to wars.
So, it turns out that many, if not most, of us are all a little bit like those Christians after all! Maybe instead of smirking at them, we can acknowledge that we are, essentially, the same. We too wanted to be saved. We too wanted some Big Day when it would all get better. We just chose thought it would be aliens saving us, instead of Jesus.
And our New Age gurus maybe aren't so different from the Christian pastors. Most of them mean well and truly believe what they're preaching. But they too get caught up in the glitz and glamour of being famous. After awhile, their message gets tainted, despite their genuine intention of wanting to help others.
So maybe the lesson here is to have more compassion for those people who drink the kool-aid. Because, to some degree or another, whether we admit it or not, we drank it too!
And, to have more compassion for those who serve the kool-aid as well! Yikes, just think of the magnitude of the karma they may face, for unintentionally (or intentionally) influencing so many people with teachings that turned out to be largely false, or, at the very least, distorted. Surely they carry a heavy responsibility, being in the limelight like that, and being tempted in ways we can't even imagine. I don't envy them at all.
Meanwhile, another lesson is to recognize the changes that really DID happen. OK, we didn't go poof, but can we honestly say nothing happened? Maybe it did but we were looking in the wrong place. Instead of looking in the outer world, maybe we need to be looking within. Maybe the change is really within us. Maybe, if we look, we will find an increased ability to love, have compassion, and feel joy. Maybe the love vibes really have increased, and are all around us, and we just need to attune to them. Not wait for them. Proactively seek them on our own.
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The whole 2012 thing was pretty much the New Agers' version of the Christian rapture idea. We did the very same thing they did. We just thought we were smarter about it. We believed an ancient calendar, that had been proven accurate, instead of an ancient book that had already been proven inaccurate. So we were more intellectual about it.
And, we had Ra's teachings to back up that calendar! Never mind that Ra never actually said we'd go poof on a certain date. A lot of that just got piggy backed onto the Mayan calendar phenomenon.
Even those of us who weren't poofers - we prided ourselves on believing the planet would, as Q'uo said, "move serenely on" - still secretly hoped something dramatic would happen on Dec. 21. I didn't think we'd all go poof, but I sure did want to see some major change, like an end to wars.
So, it turns out that many, if not most, of us are all a little bit like those Christians after all! Maybe instead of smirking at them, we can acknowledge that we are, essentially, the same. We too wanted to be saved. We too wanted some Big Day when it would all get better. We just chose thought it would be aliens saving us, instead of Jesus.
And our New Age gurus maybe aren't so different from the Christian pastors. Most of them mean well and truly believe what they're preaching. But they too get caught up in the glitz and glamour of being famous. After awhile, their message gets tainted, despite their genuine intention of wanting to help others.
So maybe the lesson here is to have more compassion for those people who drink the kool-aid. Because, to some degree or another, whether we admit it or not, we drank it too!
And, to have more compassion for those who serve the kool-aid as well! Yikes, just think of the magnitude of the karma they may face, for unintentionally (or intentionally) influencing so many people with teachings that turned out to be largely false, or, at the very least, distorted. Surely they carry a heavy responsibility, being in the limelight like that, and being tempted in ways we can't even imagine. I don't envy them at all.
Meanwhile, another lesson is to recognize the changes that really DID happen. OK, we didn't go poof, but can we honestly say nothing happened? Maybe it did but we were looking in the wrong place. Instead of looking in the outer world, maybe we need to be looking within. Maybe the change is really within us. Maybe, if we look, we will find an increased ability to love, have compassion, and feel joy. Maybe the love vibes really have increased, and are all around us, and we just need to attune to them. Not wait for them. Proactively seek them on our own.
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