Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Word gets around....and then some

I was wondering aloud how it is that people get away with constant nonsense. How do they find gullible person after person? How do people that found them in the first place keep allowing themselves to be snowballed???

There are certain factors in all of this.

People are generally trusting.
People believe that certain groups of people are more trustworthy than others (think about priests molesting little boys).
People are embarrassed at finding out they have been  fooled and either stay around , or sometimes fade away.
Some get sucked in thinking that they are doing a "good thing" and find that they are being taken for a long , slow ride.
Some end up following a guru , because they "like" them, and end up learning months of nothing.

Then there is the spiritual community. Everyone wants to believe that the spiritual community is full of peace and love. They want to believe the ones who say "love" and "peace", who act all sweet, talk quietly, and walk around not realizing the world is even spinning, are guarenteed to be good people. They aren't.

Sometimes they are scammers, sometimes they are clueless, sometimes they need the attention. Sometimes all of the above.

The interesting nugget of information about all of this, was that when someone is not on the "up and up" , you will hear DIFFERENT stories it again and again from different people, and from people who don't even know each other. The stories come from far and wide and they all have the same theme.

Make sure that you are with QUALITY. Quality shows, and shows quickly. There are tons of people out there who dress the part, and give themselves titles and names who don't have a clue, and teach you to be just as clueless as they are!

It is easy to find the quality people. Try someone else. Even if you are in a group, in a class, shop in a store, or eat in a restaurant that you like, try a different one. You just may see EXACTLY what you are missing or "mis-learning". Ask questions, if the leader cannot answer them, or says something that doesn't make sense ...leave. When their answer is their "credentials" or lineage....leave.

There are so many out there who fake it REALLY well. But quality always wins out in the end. Quality will teach you the right way, and bring you around quality people.

QUALITY over quantity.

DO the right things for the right reasons.



Peshaui Wequashimese






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