I wonder how much of the rape culture around certain gurus & lineages comes from degeneration or ignorance of the attendant moral practices.
When you start hitting the deeper sustained levels of unconditional love, the narrow bandwidth of expression feels *really frustrating*.
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speaking frankly: it would not be inaccurate to describe me as a "micro-guru" in some people's eyes, and even I get impressionable young women – teenage girls sometimes – in my DMs, asking me for help with things, and gushing about how smart and cool etc etc I am
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and I can see the adjacent possible reality – how easy it would be to co-create an exciting, compelling fantasy with them, and, before long, feel like it's what I'm supposed to do with my life, like I'm destined, even, to be some sort of, idk. psycho-sexual conduit
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what I do is always firmly remind every person who gushes about me, "I'm just some guy, y'know". I think pedestalization is the beginning of some really weird behavior and I want to avoid that
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