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Performative arts. No references. No deferral to any texts. No quotations from previous masters. Have you even read Tantra (From Abhinavagupta through the Kashmir Shavist lineage) or have you made it all up Aria?

You owe your readers an answer. Otherwise, I consider you absolutely guilty of spiritual malpractice. I mean this entirely.

But I know your move - here, someone who doesn’t get it and thereby reveals more of himself than I, the innocent and pure, the astrological guru who has direct realization.

This is certainly the single greatest problem in so-called spiritual communities emerging as solutions to very real economic and political fractures in our world (our projections?) today. Frauds who speak well. Frauds who take online courses in psychism or Akashic record reading and then claim to be shamans.

They then laugh and roll their eyes - ah, you don’t know, you don’t understand the vibratory world as I do, I the guru, the I who claims to be on a journey but holds no responsibility for what should ultimately be considered spiritual malfeasance.

True - no one asked me. Fair enough.

The online corporate commodification of our spiritual destiny continues. A sure sign of the impending apocalypse!

To close. Here I witness (as the witness?) the snake oil saleswoman playing her archetype - the “one supposed to know”, the one on a transformative journey with a few passing references to Jung. Cute.

Aria cycles through of the usual new age spiritual buzz words in order to convey some sort of expertise in what amounts to a non-subject. Is this spirituality or self-aggrandizement by way of it?

Look closer. Dig deeper. Forgive me for collapsing your wave function. I am clearing my “energetic field” of all bullshit.

I begin here.

Lest I be accused of personal attack, I only point to the utter spiritual misdirection in her voice - sadly, a mind warped BY ceremony, not a Self found THROUGH ceremony (but the mushrooms reveal to me the very nature of things unseen in the Akasha!)

Aria is making it up a she goes. Vibes-based “energy healing”. A self-enclosed Ouroboros without end or beginning.

This is my shadow work - rooting out the faux-spiritual in a time of general social breakdown.

Your turn.

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