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http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2020/01/dreamers-somnambulistically-dancing-in.html

Dog Poet Transmitting.......

By this time in the New Year, the desire for personal change has come up against the force of routine and habit and some... some are probably holding strong, in their commitment to positive change. Many have fallen back upon the guttering leaves, caught in the potholes of memory and are seeing how hard it is to burn wet, compacted leaves. The last several days... I've been in a mild, Proustian melancholia, remembering snatches of things past/passed. It seems that my pun about 2020, being the year of perfect hindsight, might not have been a pun after all. We don't remember well, usually. Over time we editorialize and try to shape it all, to be more in keeping with the heart's desire. The rigorous and ruthless honesty that is required of everyone, who is sincere on the spiritual path, is never more difficult than it is in times of material excess.

Most of the tools and teachings of what we call New Age, are an amalgam of strategies and techniques that cater to the spiritually lazy. I remember a fellow telling me about an event he attended where Eckhart Tolle-Booth spoke. He said there was VIP seating at the front of the room for the TMZ, D-List celebrities and the wealthy and the rate was in the hundreds of dollars. I knew something was off about the fellow when I saw him being promoted by Offal Winfrey. For me, that usually means, “the fix is in”; whether it be some newly minted celebrity, or a just released book. Because I have/had some acquaintances who were fans of the New Age sector, I was compelled, through peer pressure to give Tolle a fair hearing.