Druid, I think you've made some good points.
I'm really struggling with a way to reconcile the left & right brain modes - I think they are equally important but it's a question of achieving integration. I seem to go back & forth like a shuttlecock.
I'm looking for some explanation of "why here, why now, why me?"
The problem is that I constantly hear statements that might help explain this increasing surge of feelings, intuitions, dreams, & various increased sensitivities, but I run into problems.
Just as I'm listening to some one expounding some theory about enlightenment, crystal children, Mayans etc, I run smack into some incredibly stupid statement of "fact", which I know is simply not right from any epistemological stance.
The problem seems to be confounded by the practice of so many new age-ers to make statements as if they were a statement of objective fact, rather than their own viewpoint or belief. It's like with very young infants - it is likely that their concept of what is "self" and what is "not-self" is very blurred - the difference between internal and external reality are not conceptualized.
I get this impression from many who talk of their spiritual faith, and the conclusions that they draw from their faith in terms of what is ethical or unethical action. It's as if because
they feel it, then it
must be true for everyone else, they seem to assume. Not only that, the conclusions they draw about how others should expect the future to pan out, is also stated as "fact", rather than personal opinion predicated on an intangible set of beliefs which is only understood by them.
It's the
imprecision of this that does my head in, (or least the left half

). Trying to sort out the millions of different theories, beliefs, arguments and conclusions, let alone having fantasy portrayed as fact, just muddies the water for everyone in this confusing but exhilarating time.
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