Critical Thinking Discouraged in Spirituality?

[Verunia]

Originally Posted by HBuck72

Almost immediately those of us who demanded actual proof for the claims, or back up sources, were attacked by other people as being mean, self-centered, too mainstream, not spiritually advanced enough, too closed minded, etc.

I love when this happens. I don't know why, I just do- being attacked on a forum brings out people's real emotions behind the cool spiritual barrier. I can't tell you how many times I've been told to open my mind more. Well now, I don't want my brain to fall out!

As for bandwagons, I am frankly tired of the TF idea. And the western interpretation of Kundalini. And a lot of eastern philosophy that's been warped into something totally different.. I have a laundry list of things that rub me the wrong way, so I don't even bother with them anymore.. I know better than to bother someone just for their beliefs, agreeing with mine or not. It's a big world, there's more than enough room for people to believe whatever they want.

I have trouble with someone asking for and using the word "proof". I have learned and realized quite a lot spiritually, but cannot Prove this to someone else, nor feel a need too. What is true for someone is true for them and what is not true is not true. Therefore, spirituality is quite subjective. An individual might ask themselves, am I getting the results I expected and then some? That is the only proof I need, "does it work?" I was fortunate to find a non-faith based religion that contains the whole body of exact and correct knowledge of life itself. It most certainly works...

Originally Posted by mattie

You are perceiving a real bias about critical thinking in new age writing. It goes much deeper than this, but fortunately this bias is not shared by all new age writers. Some have some really excellent in depth articles that use both the heart & brain.

Great post mattie. I enjoyed reading it!