Everybody wants to be a groovy hippy enlightened life coach teacher doctor healer

[liveonearth]

What's up with that? I mean, as I look around, I am on this path toward naturopathy. Everybody I know or meet is going toward nursing or doctoring or acupuncturing, or working as a massage therapist, or treating addicts, or teaching yoga or meditation or nutrition, or opening up a practice, or getting a new certification, or writing a book about all the important stuff they've learned in life. We're all doing it. Some are ahead of others, but we're all going the same direction, like lemmings. Everybody's got a web page. Everybody's self-promoting, wanting to be the guru, wanting to be paid for what we know. We all are hip and cool. What next?

I wonder when the day will come that there's no money for what we know and can communicate, and the matter becomes what can we DO. Besides teach. Who was it that said those who can't do, teach? And why is it that my life is full of gurus or every stripe?? Or is it that my life is full of entrepreneurs, those who have the smarts to separate a sucker from his money for no more than an idea or an experience? And what in life is worth more than an idea or experience? And are they actually making a living with all this purveying of insight? Am I in a bubble? I must be in a tiny little cultural bubble.

I know I'm going around in circles. Seems to be status quo.

The question is, how does a guru dress? And how sincere does the smile really have to be? Because after a while, all those phoney blissed out guru smiles really get tired. It's hard to maintain the appearance of enlightenment. A lot of work, and the veneer is full of gaps.

Comments

[bodylove.livejournal.com]

I am turned off by those that try to market their "knowledge" in that sense. when I see practitioners that take general practices and put their own "twist" on it and then try to market it as some new technique that can cure, it's upsetting as plenty of similar methods are used by many who don't try to market it as a claim to fame. to me it doesn't make sense to try to claim one is the creator of any type of healing system as it takes a number of contributors to create and they are often based on principles established by many others.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Yep. Pretty much any certification you can pay money for these days could be painted in the way you describe. I'm pretty tired of paying money to be sold shit. And any healing system that works will be based on the same basic principles because we are living organisms and we operate based on the principles of life. ... ...