What should be in the guide is kind of a tough question IMO... It brings up a lot of other questions for me: would it be a guide to 'awakening' or just general 'spirituality'? Isn't that the same concept (or simply awakening to spirituality)? Guides are linear, so where do you start?
I would like to share my thought process on this. Let's say it is a guide to 'awakening to spirituality'. Where exactly do you start? When I try to answer that question, I tend to refer to my own awakening process. The seed thought that began my awakening seems to be 'there is something wrong with the world'. I always wanted to help people and was really bothered how bad certain things were in the world (such world hunger, wars, etc), and to a lesser extent things such as the structure of Western society (income disparity, authority figures trying to push you not to question and to be a happy worker bee, economy based on buying goods we don't need or important goods such as clothing designed to wear out so you have to buy more).
But at this point, I no longer feel there is something 'wrong with the world' because I just see it as society working out it's collective shadow. It still pains me to see many of these problems, but I am able process the catalyst properly (for the most part). So to me, it is a bit of a dilemma to put information about 'what is wrong'/conspiracies into a beginners guide because I would consider that a temporary step. Perhaps that is still appropriate to include that into a guide as long as you broaden your perspective enough to the point where you see that all is well in the grand scheme of things.
I suppose you could be nonspecific and simply include the Tool/Timothy Leary mantra "think for yourself, question authority". That mantra actually was the primary seed which blossomed over 5+ years.
All this could just be my own starting point... Maybe some people don't even start off with finding/feeling something is wrong with the way the world works.
Beyond that very first step in the guide, I'm not sure. I kind of had this part stuck in my head, so hopefully this post will allow me think beyond that to give other suggestions.
I would like to share my thought process on this. Let's say it is a guide to 'awakening to spirituality'. Where exactly do you start? When I try to answer that question, I tend to refer to my own awakening process. The seed thought that began my awakening seems to be 'there is something wrong with the world'. I always wanted to help people and was really bothered how bad certain things were in the world (such world hunger, wars, etc), and to a lesser extent things such as the structure of Western society (income disparity, authority figures trying to push you not to question and to be a happy worker bee, economy based on buying goods we don't need or important goods such as clothing designed to wear out so you have to buy more).
But at this point, I no longer feel there is something 'wrong with the world' because I just see it as society working out it's collective shadow. It still pains me to see many of these problems, but I am able process the catalyst properly (for the most part). So to me, it is a bit of a dilemma to put information about 'what is wrong'/conspiracies into a beginners guide because I would consider that a temporary step. Perhaps that is still appropriate to include that into a guide as long as you broaden your perspective enough to the point where you see that all is well in the grand scheme of things.
I suppose you could be nonspecific and simply include the Tool/Timothy Leary mantra "think for yourself, question authority". That mantra actually was the primary seed which blossomed over 5+ years.
All this could just be my own starting point... Maybe some people don't even start off with finding/feeling something is wrong with the way the world works.
Beyond that very first step in the guide, I'm not sure. I kind of had this part stuck in my head, so hopefully this post will allow me think beyond that to give other suggestions.
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