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sometimes i see people talking about things im supposedly also into but it just kind of makes me feel gross, sick, and unmotivated to be around them 🥴 ("metamodern spirituality") other people, they talk about the same things, and i feel held, humbled, inspired (The Emerald)
it's such a different vibe first group is more bay area, second group is more asheville https://t.co/XGousqnbFU
this isn't to call the first group "bad", but it is to make visible to myself a kind of discernment i've historically not been able to pay attention to https://t.co/jjnbiS3CFY
i just don't believe them i look at these metamodern spiritualists talking about tantra and this and that, and i don't believe them https://t.co/v5srutGuoc
i've met people on the street i believe more. the men and women who taught me yoga and animism—i believe them more i believe them in the sense the goodness they say they want to enact in the world, i see that already in them
i see a kind of softness, humility, of having known pain i see a kind of fierceness, wildness, and ability to be more-than-default-society-can-handle-ness they seem of the world. when im around them, the messages their bodies are screaming into the world, i enjoy them
meanwhile the bay area metamodern spirituality people, they seem like good, innocent, certainly not bad guys i just.. they're just.. around them, i just feel so damn heady. their words are 80mph away from their being https://t.co/a050ZytiRX
im sloooooowly beginning to listen to what people's bodies actually say. if i keep it up, i might just feel sane in this place https://t.co/CTj9V8du7f
>Thus… if someone tells me something, and it seems to me to contradict something I can tell for myself… if I try to override what I can tell for myself by taking their word for it > that is precisely the same as signing up to get gaslit https://t.co/vdSzcK8FcE