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 Being based in this day and age is standing out from the crowd, not afraid of being yourself the way your higher power(s) intended, even if your family fears for your "safety" (I do the quotes, for that's a code word for possible bad things to happen to you if you buckle to their pressure unquestioningly).

The way you stand out, however, depends on your ethics. In my humble opinion, you have to look things up, where people cannot prove the opposite through normal means, but rather, using insults and gaslighting and try and coerce you to their thought process, for they cannot fathom your enlightenment. They will know you're being enlightened by your higher power.

I have done this on Nostr, in fact, and even my own circles didn't take too kindly to a couple things I had said based upon me being enlightened by my higher power. That's an example of this for me.