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Indigos, crystals, rainbows and aliens,
starseeds and walk-ins and wonders abound
shop for your favorite feel-good feeling
Will you know when the right mix has finally been found?
~sshenry 2008

The argument for - and against - the various New Age beliefs is as old as the movememt itself, and a quick search of the internet will provide an absolute avalanche of inforamtion, dis-information, self-help books, CD's full of "life-changing discoveries", offers for channelings, tarrot readings, astrology readings. Read far enough and you'll find references to starseeds, walk-ins, rainbows, crystals, octarines, indigos...well, you get the idea.

So how does a rational person decide what is legitimate, and what can be discarded? How does one determine where they belong - what label applies to you?

And I say -
WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

Everyone on this planet has had moments of thinking that they might not belong here - that they might have been born into the wrong family. But I don't think that this is because the person is a changeling or an alien in disguise, I think it is because the person has finally become aware, they have woken up, and in a world full of sleeping people, being awake can be a very lonely and isolating thing.

It is my humble opinion that most New Age beliefs are just another set of illusions to wrap our senses up in in order to keep us from waking up to the true nature of reality - just one more layer of the Matrix if you will, like nationalities or sexes or cultures...

Because at the heart of it, if the soul/spirit is real, then it would by definition trancend any physical or genetic differences. The soul would be a vehicle, a vessel for the soul. So it wouldn't matter if the "soul" were from earth, mars or the second galaxy to the right of eternity...all souls or spirits would be part of the greater source (call it whatever you will....god, shakinah, tao, whatever).

To be able to see beyond the physical differences....to be able to see the ghost in the machine, is to trancend the need for "us" and "them" and work together instead for the awakening of any and all who can be persuaded to see through the illusion.

Just a thought

I couldn't have said it better meself