I need help dealing with new age crap...

[Purple Rabbit]

Hello everyone

I’m tired of feeling inferior to some “enlightened” people so easily. I try to reason with myself but it seems to be rooted quite deeply in my system.

I have this friend, each time she hesitates between 2 self-help books (usually some crap about your spirit animal or angel therapy… blah blah bullshit!) she asks her cat!!! ASKS HER CAT!!!!! And … if the cat looks at one of the books first she buys that one!
But the best part is : if I make fun of it, she calmly states that she knows I would see it that way, because I’m such a rational person!
And I know that I will never be capable of seeing things her way but I still feel a bit sorry for myself for missing these things out and being so down to earth…

I’m sick with myself! I don’t know what to do! I’m tired of feeling like a stupid animal or a cave woman each bloody time!

I had similar feelings when I was younger, with a lesbian friend (who made me feel like a simple minded fool who didn’t have the brains and guts to see sex was something else with women) and a vegetarian friend (who made me feel like a bloodthirsty uncivilized carnivore).

But then I grew up… I still like meat and men (without the guilt... feels proud…)! And my lesbian friend found herself a nice girlfriend and feels a lot better about herself and we are best of friends again…

But I can’t seem to manage the “lack of spiritual needs” complex… Any help?

… goes to sulk in her cave…

Meow…

You seem to have a natural talent...scepticism. Simply nourish it, feed it with literature, science, art...and in time you will be able to state clearly your own point of view and you won't feel the urge to grow blind faith in pseudocrap trying to feel what your friends feel. It will be better than that.