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I was talking w @rosaclewis about sth related a bit ago, and she pretty precisely pointed at what felt off to me, I said I had a hard time with “the whisper people”, the quasi-hippies who make a point to speak slow and soft and be performatively gentle in all things,, https://t.co/9UUj3PGeVz
And Rosa said “it always feels like they’re forcing you to play a game w them, follow the rules of some Spiritual Game—and a game is the opposite of what I’m looking for, I want something *real* I want to know Reality”
Which immediately struck me as correct—the thing that bugs me when I try to find a healer or a community or a spiritual ally, and instead come across the Whisper People, is that they’re consciously holding most of reality at arms length, and expect you to do the same,
Feels related to the overuse of the phrase “creating a space” We don’t need to “create a space”, the space we need to engage with is already here, already Real, already all around us to be worked with,
If you’re repeatedly talking about Creating A Space For X, it’s often coming from a place of “I can’t or won’t countenance Reality’s realness;; I need to make a magic circle where I can control the rules and make them soft and quiet and soothing”
(Caveats caveats, particular types of training and cultivation and relationship building and so on can benefit from particular types of spaces— a major difference is that when they’re functional that way, they *support* realness, rather than trying to control it / push it away)