This reads like a traveller’s account of a wander through your own mind, but since I can’t see that terrain, the language does not convey very much to me. It passes through several different landscapes that do not seem to have much to do with each other. It would benefit from facing outward and being more concrete. What did you observe in 2007, in 2016, and 2020? What I have observed is that yoga classes, new-age shops, and the woo section in bookstores (called “Mind, Body, and Spirit”) have existed in the western world for decades, and I have not noticed any discontinuities. Name three “Detachmentists” and point to what they have done and said, instead of daydreaming a tirade against imaginary enemies.
Yeah I guess my feelings are more anecdotal, which is not the kind of reasoning this community prefers. I feel very passionate about this topic and have a lot of friends with what seem to be unhealthy relationships to spirituality.
I appreciate your criticisms and I think I’ll do more research. Sometimes I feel like with large-scale social phenomenon the really significant things go on in the “imaginary”, hard to define space.
It’s interesting what you say about a traveler’s diary through a place unfamiliar, and therefore (of course) unhelpful. It’s also interesting the way things we feel so fiery when writing can mean nothing to another person, if they don’t share the same set of initial feelings / the same language.
This reads like a traveller’s account of a wander through your own mind, but since I can’t see that terrain, the language does not convey very much to me. It passes through several different landscapes that do not seem to have much to do with each other. It would benefit from facing outward and being more concrete. What did you observe in 2007, in 2016, and 2020? What I have observed is that yoga classes, new-age shops, and the woo section in bookstores (called “Mind, Body, and Spirit”) have existed in the western world for decades, and I have not noticed any discontinuities. Name three “Detachmentists” and point to what they have done and said, instead of daydreaming a tirade against imaginary enemies.
Yeah I guess my feelings are more anecdotal, which is not the kind of reasoning this community prefers. I feel very passionate about this topic and have a lot of friends with what seem to be unhealthy relationships to spirituality.
I appreciate your criticisms and I think I’ll do more research. Sometimes I feel like with large-scale social phenomenon the really significant things go on in the “imaginary”, hard to define space.
It’s interesting what you say about a traveler’s diary through a place unfamiliar, and therefore (of course) unhelpful. It’s also interesting the way things we feel so fiery when writing can mean nothing to another person, if they don’t share the same set of initial feelings / the same language.
Appreciate you reading and responding!