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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I think there's something intoxicating about the sort of sexual energy between the pedestalized and their devotees, and it becomes something like a mob or riot. and then shit gets weird, people get swept up, peer pressure, consent, etc all get squished into this weird chaos-blob
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it's a little tacky to say "the guru/celebrity is a victim too", particularly in the context of talking about some specific scandal where people get hurt. but I think there *is* something to it. they allow themselves to be swept up by the energy and they feel sincerely entitled
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I think it's a symptom of mythologizing your attainments, buying into a sort of mythic conception of yourself.
This may fit in some paradigms you inhabit, but the inability to let go of it is ignorance.
No matter how wise or powerful, you are always just some guy. Not special.
this video always cracks me up:
