“Fake it ‘till you Make it” and Three Other Unhelpful Self-Help Mantras
Plus three mantras that really do help us “be the change”
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J. Krishnamurti
When I entered the New Age world in my early 30s, it felt like I had stepped into another reality.
The people here were…different—kinder, lighter, and more present. Many of them recognized the issues of our culture and sought to “be the change.” They were ambitious, but in a completely different way than the mainstream ambition I was used to—an ambition about ladder climbing, promotion-seeking, and title-coveting.
I eagerly changed residencies from the real world to the spiritual world. And with that change in residency came a swallow-it-whole mentality about what I was taught. Because one thing that I’ve found to be true in both the real world and the spiritual world is a lack of tolerance for curiosity—not just a run-of-the-mill curiosity that wants to learn more, but a curiosity that questions everything, including the system itself.
I will always be indebted to the spiritual community. But now that I’ve moved back to the real world, I can see that even with the…
