In this video:
Savannah’s Bitch Session
I began the video by complaining about the need to project a false self-image to the world in order to be accepted by society. And it’s definitely a catch 22 situation. In order to engage in the world and find a community, you need to be seen as thinking, feeling, and behaving the same as others within your group, or otherwise face exiled from the group! The issue is that by masking our true selves, we feel lonely and unaccepted. The solution is NOT simple. Without turning this bitching session into a therapy session, I will just say that we need to be aware that every person has a shadow side, and that we naturally project a more positive persona out to the community. What you watch in the community (TV, Media, Social Platforms) is the best version of somebody or the version that they want you to see. People want to naturally feel important, heard, validated, loved. The shadow side of their personality is not something that you’re going to share with the greater community or you risk ostracisation. People who do not look at their own shadow directly, project that onto others,(the qualities we often cannot stand in others, we have in ourselves, and we do not want to see). This is the one-sided hypocrisy of social media, we were constantly finding fault in others. Next, I bitch about spiritual people needing to have an instant “label”. I totally understand why people like to give them self credit for what they would like to become – so they can have some level of status in their social group or to sell themselves/their services to the world, or to have more confidence. But does the label matter if you personally can’t do what you’re stating you’re able to do? I don’t think so. After watching my video for this month, a client of BWC who happens to be a medical doctor “Dr. F” said, “Thanks for pointing out all the wannabes and those in it for the ‘likes’ and insta-glory. I am pretty sure alot of these folk haven’t summoned forth demons at 3am with purple candles in graveyard dirt they personally collected and offer a ‘blood sacrifice’ to tear down the veil as the spiritual world touches our plane! ? I am such a ‘noob’ at this and still learning and still make mistakes. I won’t call myself a ‘magician’ or ‘magi’ or any if that as I still seem myself as green. I am just a regular guy who happens to practice magick…. and if I start to think of myself as anything more the spiritual world will remind me of my folly and be quick to humble me.” Dr. F also provided an interesting label for this need to be seen as a guru – the “Dunning-Kruger effect”.“Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general. Because they are unaware of their deficiencies, such people generally assume that they are not deficient.”
There are many courses where “gurus” provide labels and certify them in xyz after a weekend course. It is like a medical student calling themself a DOCTOR or a SURGEON. Sure, they are on the path of becoming a surgeon, but they are not a surgeon. They do not have the skill or ability to operate on a patient and expect the patient will be living at the end of the operation! On the left-hand path, it is totally okay to submit to the journey. The PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT is a journey, and the reward is the actual benefits gained from the application of your skills and knowledge. Further, when you submit to the left-hand path, with each door you open there will be 12 additional doors of knowledge and wisdom to absorb and process. It’s a hugely humbling experience.