The Big "E"

All throughout mankind's history, individuals have been forced to think for themselves, rather than relying upon the thoughts of others, but, as technology marches forward - particularly since the last 75 years, and accelerating exponentially for the last 25 years or so - people have had to think for themselves LESS, and now rely almost exclusively upon others - no matter who and what they are - for thoughts about humankind and the world at large.

Thirty years ago, and all the time before that, it was easier to get involved with Real Teachings than it is today, and most likely will be in the future with each passing year (once they are located, that is - which, of course, is NEVER very easy, given all the shams and scams that always must exist in the world).

Those who "got started" 30+ years ago, are - in a sense - the dying breed, in that they were introduced to "This Thing," and could quickly achieve a serious level of sincere interest and involvement, whereas some of the ideas, when encountered today, have become so watered-down, that they are almost unrecognizable, and the people who "might" have found them useful back then - before the watering-down - are way too skeptical about such "higher information" today, or they are just not interested at all to even begin "This Thing" - "The Work", "Awakening in one life time", "Evolution of consciousness", "Conscious evolution", and the big "E)nlightenment".

Case in point: I know many people who found "This Thing" 30+ years ago, who are still at it today, in a serious way - which usually means, secretly - while exploring, discovering, inventing, and creating, as well as actualizing their knowledge, more often, and better yet, each and every day. Perhaps curiously, or not, NONE OF THEM are "serious" tweeters, facebookers, instagrammers, myspacers, yahoogroupers, and all the other kinds of mass-marketed mind-numbers (as in, "they numb the mind") that so many people born in the last forty-five years or so live on today. It has become their "daily - hourly, minute-by-minute - bread" (pablum - bland, insipid, nutrition-free intellectual fare, mostly nonsense, gossip- and fear-mongering, and random bullshit, passing for "really cool info" on millions of silly topics, including "waking up", "becoming conscious", and "getting enlightened".)

Today, who can trust ANYTHING at all

to be of essential and enduring value?

Of course, NONE OF THAT STUFF, has anything whatsoever to do with the Meaningful Topics presented here and elsewhere by those who are, usually, "old enough" to know about them, and value them in the right way.