A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2022/07/the-real-stars-not-brittle-little.html

I looked long and hard at the lives of successful people according to the way The World measures those things. I was drawn to the arts at an early age and despite my abilities, entrée into The World behind the velvet ropes was denied to me. I had more brushes with it than I can remember, BUT... it never took. The same can be said in every other area of life that I passed through... except for The Spiritual Path. I did not know at the time that every other port of call would be closed to me or... how very, very, very kind God was to me for having closed them.

Now I look at the lives of famous artists and celebrities in every field and I thank The Living God above...and... within... that he spared me that. God went so far as to put me in the company of famous people many times for The Purpose of Observation. I was able to get a look at life inside the velvet ropes. What I found... fairly often... was people afflicted with Bronzemia. Bring in the pigeons ♫don't bother they're here♫

I had some amount of the glamour of The World in my eyes. Nearly all of us do. It is VERY hard for any of us to escape it... so we must struggle mightily to rise above or beyond it in some fashion. Alice Bailey wrote a book called, “Glamour (a world problem).” She can be difficult to read. You need a functioning mind and some degree of focus. This is easier than a lot of her work though.