Earth Is Becoming A Star ('12-'13)

I don't want to be rude or overly nasty in stating my case here, because I can feel anger rising up in me strongly right now. So I don't mean to insult you or cut you down. That being said, I don't want to hold back and censor myself too much either.

I am so sick of seeing and reading messages like this. I watched this video. I've watched many like it. This shit is not helpful, it's not constructive, it's not okay. It creates confusion and apathy in people who might otherwise be drawn to take up important work in healing themselves, other people, and the planet around them. Trying to have a reasonable conversation with some people who are proponents of concepts like the one espoused in this video can be a pull-out-your-hair-in-frustration situation. People latch onto vague, dreamy, awesome-sounding ideas like this because they sound so damn cool, and in an effort to think outside the dominant paradigm they eat up anything that sounds too cool and crazy and far-out to be true, as if that's the only real prerequisite for an idea's validity. As long as it contains a lot of words like "light" "love" "consciousness" "vibration" "dimensional" etc, people are likely to ignore the glaring ridiculousness of the idea and eat it up and regurgitate it over and over again to each other until it becomes a real "belief." This is the worst kind of thinking, the most counterproductive, silly kind of thinking you can engage in. To be open to possibilities, sure, of course that's a good idea. I'm not even saying "Oh, this is bullshit. This is NOT true." But to act like a concept like this is for sure true doesn't do anybody any good. It doesn't help spiritual growth or maturity or understanding, and it CERTAINLY does not help problems with a major three-dimensional, physical-reality component like ecological devestation, disease, poverty, etc etc. People I know who are really into this kind of thing usually exhibit what I would call a kind of spiritual immaturity, where they never seem to be getting past the stage of fascination with the exterior shiny luster of all these different spiritual traditions and into the real heart of what's going on underneath. I feel like you could easily create a mad lib with all the appropriate buzzwords and write a script for a video like this. This might be a little simplistic, in fact, I'm sure it is, and I don't mean to generalize, but here is the real problem I see with this kind of New-Agey fantasy-land stuff: People who are open to strange, cool, spiritual (take your pick) ideas become so enamored with the thought of the approach of Nibiru or the return of the Arcturians or practicing vague "ascension" techniques or waiting for the "planet to turn into a star in 2012" that they forget about what's actually going on in the real world. They don't get organized, they don't protest, they don't change the way they live, they don't reach out to the third world, they don't study bonafide spiritual traditions, they don't properly investigate anything. They just eat up this New Age candy like it's going out of style. There is no substance to a lot of this shit, and a lot of it originates from people who have chemical imbalances and real mental "problems." I know a lot of people on here might take offense to this or see me as being judgmental or just not "getting it," and perhaps that's true. I don't know. All I know is that I've spent a lot of time doing a lot of arduous work to get to the place I am today on the path, and I don't feel like the ideas I'm talking about here are based in ego or fear or anger. They're based in genuine concern and caution. Evolver and Reality Sandwich and a million other places are full of substanceless bullshit like "The Earth will become a star in 2012." I don't think this is helping anybody. And beyond that, it bums me out because I think most people that put these ideas forward and believe in them and perpetuate them have really good intentions. Instead of investing so much energy in things like this, they could channel that energy where it would be more beneficial to them and everyone else.

I apologize for the rant, but I just had to put that out there, even if no one reads it.