Hi Tindaro. Your latest posts are a credit to you and I would say show you have significant capacity for awareness, openness and growth.
Thank you Michael, I really appreciate your kind words. I've been sitting here sweating bullets and emptying out boxes of tissues wondering when the cavalry would arrive!
I see there's a section called
Tickle Me, so I assume some healthy humor is welcomed around here!
Please remember that the responses you have received here are not meant as personal attacks on you or outright rejections of your efforts but rather observations on the material you presented, with maybe some concern following your own admittance that this theory has played such a dominant and singular role in your thinking these past years. When you received feedback from some members suggesting you should take your theory elsewhere, you should know that we often experience new members coming here and immediately pleading the case for this theory or that and when met with some critical resistance this more than often turns to unpleasantness with the forum being told 'we just can't see the light' leading to insults and extreme behavior. Its a very common pattern so please understand how members can sometimes feel 'here we go again!' and so maybe try to conserve energy by suggesting 'well if you feel this strongly, why not try somewhere else that suits you better'.
I can't even begin to imagine what you have all had to deal with on a forum like this. I have never participated on any forum or groups over the years with regards to these kinds of issues. I quietly observed for a while, but then grew so tired of scrolling through so much vitriolic trolling and nauseating sycophancy that I just stopped reading comments anywhere, and just stuck to the main individuals sharing messages. And that's not aimed at this forum because I never even began to read anything here as a result of what I had seen elsewhere. I would just drop in on a monthly basis to see if there was a new Session.
One thing that I have a low threshold of tolerance for are bad manners and a lack of social decorum, which are just rampant online. So I kind of imagined that it was the case with the feedback that was coming my way. My first thoughts were either, a) these people are not as mature as I thought they were, or b) these people have had to deal with so many immature people that they are making me run the gauntlet!
This has been a very intense and interesting baptism of fire!
This network was formed and has been sustained for so long on the basis of a collective effort to weed out biases and blind spots (which we all have) and to seek out as much diverse information as possible in an effort to create as wide and as deep an understanding of the complexity and multi faceted nature of reality. What one might term mosaic thinking.
And I appreciate that. I also realize that with so much information out there to explore, and such limited time, one has to shrink down the pool of material to dedicate that time to beautifying and amplifying that mosaic. So the luxury of trying to accomodate everything that people want to add to it, is just not doable. Especially when there is so much weeding to do. And I did take this into consideration when deciding to choose the topic I chose.
Your desire to share your experiences and knowledge is most welcome but you have perhaps gathered we are very wary of those who join and then start professing that what they have learned on their own beats the accumulated, cross referenced knowledge that has painstakingly been built up over many many years of collaborative exchange and discussion. That's why your decision to take time to read the Wave was so good to hear because one of its many, many priceless gifts is that the reader gets the chance to journey with Laura as even she had to learn the hard way the cost of facing one's own blind spots and self-delusions based on wishful thinking. I reiterate we all have them - for as Laura put it once, there's a program for EVERYONE.
Yes, I have read enough of the Wave in the past to have a good idea that what Laura went through was not easy. And the interview I saw just added more context. But I have not gone far enough with the Wave to have a better understanding of the bigger picture of what evolved into this forum and the volumes of books and Sessions. Which is why I have often sought creative ways to finish the Series, but have always ended up not completing it. I'm just a very slow reader, and having no one in my life who found this material worthwhile just meant that I would overload on input because there was no output. I find that I learn better if I can share what I'm learning.
I don't think you should abandon this thread, rather perhaps do some further reading and then start to analyze and compare what you read in terms of the theory that has been so important for you so as to explore what if any gap may exist between this material and what you find here. Then maybe bring that learning back here and discuss again. Just a thought.
That's actually a good idea. Certainly worth a try, as maybe it could help to keep me focused. As for the thread, I would like some guidance on what to do about the comments that I have not responded to. I think it's rude to not respond to those who have left messages in this thread; but I also realize that the tone of the conversation is changing, so maybe certain comments don't need responding to... I don't know?
@Alejo @benkostka @Wandering Star @Zzartemis @BHelmet @Amor @Jones @Ben as well as yourself Michael, have added comments that I have not responded to. So I'd like to just say that I'm here if anyone is wanting a response. I also welcome anyone who perhaps has been reluctant to participate because of the uncertain atmosphere to consider just starting fresh from this point, but not exclude what has been shared thus far.
Your networking on the forum is a most welcome addition - so don't give up on either yourself or this place. It takes time as you say to acclimatize but regular participation is the key, even if at times one gets a shock. These shocks are invaluable and if one uses them for growth, rather than retrenchment, that's pure gold.
I agree, retrenchment is the easy route to nowhere, certainly not the path to growth. This networking thing keeps being repeated, and I hope to eventually understand what it really means in practice.