Read Dr. Mara’s latest blog:
When “Sending Love and Light” Becomes Part of the Problem
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“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.” ~ Bell Hooks
I’m currently taking an online course about staying present while being politically engaged, given by a meditation teacher. “There’s one kind of ignoring politics that I think is positively harmful,” he said in today’s e-mail to those of us in the course. “As one of [our] community members wrote, there are teachers who ‘gaslight us into believing that it’s all in our own minds or that just sitting in meditation or sending ‘love and light’ into the world will resolve the very real-world issues all around us.’ There’s a level of delusion there that I regard almost as toxic.”
I am that community member. I was responding to the feelings of confusion and distress I’ve felt, puzzled over the path of “love and light” that some of my once-close and dear friends have taken. At the same time, these friends have been schooling those of us engaged in political discourse and interest in current events, such as a global pandemic, that “it’s all an illusion created by our own minds,” and that “you should only focus on what you want to attract and send love and light into the world.”
Buying into Conspiracy Theories
Oddly, this path has somehow led my friends down a rabbit hole and straight into the hands of conspiracy theorists…..
…..Keep reading HERE….
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