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Also there’s the element of bad prophecy: in the tradition of (this stuff), if you proclaim yourself a shaman/spiritual guru, that’s a bad prophecy and means you’ll most probably fail. You have to earn the title from the followers/beneficiaries. You don’t call yourself that 1/n

Actually that’s the tradition with most things in the East, while in America you market yourself and prop-up your credentials as much as legitimately possible. The American market/consumer doesn’t “bestow” things/permission/legitimacy upon you the way the Eastern consumer does.