If I sound like the fox who has no grapes, trust me\u2013I don\u2019t want those grapes! \u00a0I don\u2019t want the spoils of those conditions, and I use that word purposefully: \u00a0I consider them\u00a0spoilt.<\/em><\/p>\n *Spoilt: \u00a0to be excessively damaged, decayed or ruined.*<\/p>\n I possess elevated principles and egalitarian tendencies. \u00a0This does not make me a communist, socialist, or any definitions which are now widely used in a pejorative sense. \u00a0It simply makes me\u00a0caring. \u00a0No more, no less.<\/p>\n The reason I am writing this article, is that conscientious people have a difficult time dealing with injustice. \u00a0Like most people, we seek spiritual solace and salvation. \u00a0We wonder about the origins of the universe. \u00a0We wonder about our animating principles: \u00a0Our thoughts and our feelings, which shape our experience of the universe. \u00a0We wonder why this all exists! \u00a0And if, there\u2019s any point to it.<\/p>\n We seek answers. \u00a0We seek philosophies that make sense. \u00a0But we do so using our own filters, and those are personal and environmental.<\/p>\n My parents do not worship the same God, if we consider their beliefs at face-value. \u00a0My mother is an Evangelical Christian and my father is a Sanatanist (not Satanist!) Hindu. \u00a0For some Christians, he might as well be a devil-worshipper, although I\u2019ve never heard him profess a love for Beelzebub. \u00a0Satan is bad in his metaphorical book too.<\/p>\n Anyhow, I had no choice. \u00a0I went to both the church and mandir, which deprived me of precious and never-to-be-retrieved time with Sunday morning cartoons. \u00a0I went to religious ceremonies in Hindu, Christian and Muslim homes, since we had Muslims in the family too. \u00a0I grew up thinking that God was one entity, and everybody just worshipped God differently.<\/p>\n I read the Bible, Quran, Ramayana and Mahabharata, but not simply because I was curious: \u00a0My primordial egalitarian instincts had made me distrustful of priests. \u00a0(And this was way before the Catholic church scandals) \u00a0I simply did not think that I was less capable of interpreting the word of God, than some priest.<\/p>\n I was literate and progressively being educated. \u00a0I was neither daft nor inferior. \u00a0(And with that one sentence, I can see why certain males, religious and non-religious, are opposed to women and girls being educated and empowered)<\/p>\n After reading\u00a0Kissing Hank\u2019s Ass<\/a>,\u00a0I embraced atheism. \u00a0I became a skeptic who repudiated religion. \u00a0My education gave me a world-view which I have not shed to this day. \u00a0As part of my Public Affairs and Policy Management program, I studied History, Economics, Politics, and the constituents of Canadian and global policy processes. \u00a0In addition to this, I became familiar with alternative societal discourses. \u00a0Thus, myth and tradition lost their literal power. \u00a0They retained a psychic allure, but facts and reality were what interested me most.<\/p>\n We live in an age where fraudulent Science is being peddled as the secret to success and happiness. \u00a0\u00a0In Dumbination not Domination: Why \u2018the secret\u2019 is just stupid<\/a>, I explain very clearly why I don\u2019t believe in the \u2018Law\u2019 of Attraction. \u00a0In her book, \u201cBright-Sided: \u00a0How positive thinking is undermining America,<\/a>\u201d intellectual and writer Barbara Ehrenreich, writes about how the focus on our personal dispositions, is undermining our ability to have informed economic, political and social analyses. \u00a0By shifting this focus, the real culprits of our unsustainable world-order are not held accountable. Julie Gray wrote a brilliant article for the\u00a0Huffington Post<\/a>, showing the links between positive thinking, New-Age thought, and \u2018practical\u2019 applicability.<\/p>\n \u201cLost your job? You manifested that. Ugly divorce? Soul agreement from another lifetime. Terrible economy? Collective manifestation. Broke? Because you don\u2019t believe you deserve money.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n By insisting that people take \u201c100% responsibility\u201d for their thoughts, and allow zero-negativity to accumulate or be expressed, people are then ENTIRELY responsible for all events that happen to them. \u00a0It sounds like a whole lot of bullshit to me!<\/p>\n This is not to say, that even the most skeptical amongst us, have not had our share of mystical experiences, which challenge our rational orthodoxies. \u00a0Take for example, this news-report<\/a> about a boy who remembered eerily accurate details about a past-life.<\/p>\n![\"6068321847_af1fc9f157_o\"](\"https:\/\/tantradiva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/6068321847_af1fc9f157_o.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe Secret\u201d and all of that bullshit!<\/h2>\n