In SHOCK and HORROR.
Trust me, kids, if that sounds dramatic, it's because what just happened is also. I was on the Chip Coffey forums (no, don't ask) trying to debate a simple thing such as the need for common information and knowledge, and, because I disagreed with the mod too heavily, she (Sandra Lynn Sparks) DELETED THE ENTIRE THREAD. I'm horrified.
She and I are arguing over the question "Does everyone have a spirit guide?"
All the experiences and research I've done says no. She says yes.
She then defines spirit guides as "spirits formed from our consciousness that help us" , which I point out is closer to the definition of a tulpa, not a spirit guide.
She tells me I need newer definitions, after I show her the wiki entries on spirit guides and tulpas, respectively.
I point out that the definitions are older than *both of us*
She parks (or deletes, I'm not actually sure) THE ENTIRE THREAD.
This is her justification.
"Let us get this clear right now:
For all your arrogance, you are not an expert, and you are not in even the tiniest bit in charge of this board. I do what I do to include people, and help them reach their own awareness, not to make them feel excluded because it is not possible for them to do something, who are they? You want to show off, go do your crane position in front of a mirror. Got it? If you don't, you're gone."
WHAT?!?
I am *literally* horrified. And then another member (a fellow taoist, although not lapsed, like I am) says that maybe we're gonna get booted, too...
And this is a forum to *help* people? Oh, FUCK.
She and I are arguing over the question "Does everyone have a spirit guide?"
All the experiences and research I've done says no. She says yes.
She then defines spirit guides as "spirits formed from our consciousness that help us" , which I point out is closer to the definition of a tulpa, not a spirit guide.
She tells me I need newer definitions, after I show her the wiki entries on spirit guides and tulpas, respectively.
I point out that the definitions are older than *both of us*
She parks (or deletes, I'm not actually sure) THE ENTIRE THREAD.
This is her justification.
"Let us get this clear right now:
For all your arrogance, you are not an expert, and you are not in even the tiniest bit in charge of this board. I do what I do to include people, and help them reach their own awareness, not to make them feel excluded because it is not possible for them to do something, who are they? You want to show off, go do your crane position in front of a mirror. Got it? If you don't, you're gone."
WHAT?!?
I am *literally* horrified. And then another member (a fellow taoist, although not lapsed, like I am) says that maybe we're gonna get booted, too...
And this is a forum to *help* people? Oh, FUCK.