From Jesse Michel's latest podcast episode with Chris Bledsoe (https://youtu.be/bM18PJY6_Zc?si=OMzU90Ba-WoRetSM&t=11000): How do you juggle, you know, a lot of these concepts seem crazy to the average person. How do you juggle just facing, you know, relationships, issues, things in your own life, versus these kinds of deeper celestial metaphysical truths? Those two things seem kinda hard to juggle. I was talking to a friend yesterday and he has all these teachers, you know, kind of in the Eastern tradition. He's kind of his own mystic in a sense. I think I can say this actually, his name is Duncan Trussell. I actually just met him, he's an amazing comedian, but I felt a kinship with him. And he said his teachers all said that (and these are like Eastern Buddhists) they know that the celestial realm exists but they ignore it. Because what we need to do is here on earth. We have this kind of karmic path laid out in front of [us]. So I'm sure a lot of people have this sort of escapist orientation towards this subject, where they say: "Oh, take me up on the craft!" So how do you reconcile those two things? Some food for thought. I agree with Jesse that there is a tendency towards escapism in ufology. A lot of New Age spiritual "traditions" have clear gnostic undertones, drawing one away from the (allegedly corrupted) corporeal world into the recesses of one's mind. Personally, I have found that it can become quite psychologically stressful to engage with some of the weirder theories surrounding the phenomenon. How do you deal with the potential dangers of getting too deeply into the weeds? submitted by /u/MontyHimself [link] [comments]