"Spiritual Correctness"

[Plenum]

I think spiritual correctness is quite a valid concept. But I guess I'm not very clear about your examples, plen. Do you not believe we are all co-creators that are sent here to accept these vicious distortions we have a hand in creating?

I think I understand your question.  And I'll try to answer it the way I think it's being posed, but if I answer a question that you didn't actually ask, then feel free to restate the query lol.  

My motivations for posting threads (and even posts) I can see in hindsight is driven by an imbalance that I can't fully get a handle on.  By actually getting my thoughts out on paper in a coherent fashion, and then reading the responses and observing my own reaction to my OP, over time, I can start to get closer to grasping what the imbalance was.

Looking back over the hundreds of threads that I've started in my time here, I can see that this desire to resolve subtle (and not so subtle!) imbalances is what motivates me to try and express things in the clearest possible way, but knowing I am coming from a flawed position.  There are assumptions and  hidden concepts in almost every OP that I can recall; and even though these might not be exposed by the discussion that follows, I do eventually get a better idea of what those hidden assumptions were.

That's a long pre-amble to answer your question!

but yes, I'll get to that now.

as others have pointed out, the term 'spiritual correctness' is a somewhat ad-hoc term, and is just me trying to point to things that are beyond what the orthodox viewpoint has given their stamp of approval on.  Almost any hierarchical religious organization is invested in maintaing a 'standard version' of their beliefs, and discourages people from trying to poke too many holes in things.  Ask too many questions, and you will usually get a question mark next to your name, and you can forget any notion of advancing within that hierarchical structure.  

That's the viewpoint from the organization.

From the viewpoint of the lay person, they too have some investment in 'spiritual correctness'.  One of the reasons why these religious/spriitual groups offer succor to their members is that there is usually some sort of claim to having an ordered narrative of creation, and a way of explaining why 'bad things happen to good people', and why 'bad people get away with things'.   So there are various concepts of post-life rewards for good deeds (yes, service to others! lol), and baddies somehow can't keep their illgotten gains (well, they can keep their biases at the very least :d).

Now, that's wandered a bit far off from the example of New-Agers that I gave in the OP; but even that is part of a set of belief structures.  Although a bit more haphazard and unorganized.

and finally, to answer your actual question of "aren't we here to accept the vicious distortions we had a hand in creating ..." I do agree.  It doesn't matter what is served up to us on our plate (The Wheel of Fortune - the catalyst of the body), it's incumbent on us to find a way to interpret and integrate it via a magical means of analysis and processing the catalyst.

I think some of the motivation in posting this thread was me still working through some yellow ray patterns to me feeling a little infringed upon by the society in which I find myself.  This is less an actual occurence in the present, but more goes back to earlier years.  But it's basically the notion of a group of people who set the terms of the discussion, and then everyone else is chucked under the bus if they raise their hand and raise a counterpoint.