Yeah man I agree. Having spent some time in and around those ideas and communities I feel I got whatever I needed from them but it’s really not for me at all at this point. If that stuff helps people and it works for them, more power to them but personally, not for me. I honestly don’t even understand what they are talking about at this point lol. I have no idea what talking to aliens has to do with spirituality. I have no idea what becoming totally obsessed with healing all your traumas as if you have some big ole’ bucket of traumas you gotta heal has to do with meditation. I don’t think it works like that at all actually. People are still doing the exact same thing 5, 10 years down the line. Still hunting that final trauma down in the next ayahuasca ceremony. The next ice bath or Joe dispensa visualization imagination technique. Hunting sensations, hunting big experiences, wanting everything to happen immediately. It’s like, I don’t think people are actually reflecting on what effect these things are having on them. You have people all over YouTube saying “omg I awakened my kundalini because I had crazy dreams, Jesus visited me, I astral projected to Lumeria and my dead grandma healed my abandonment wounds and man I’m just so spiritual cause I am just so sensitive to people and I can feel everyone’s energy and this YouTube channeller activated my multidimensionality and omg I’m just so spiritual and I’m about to have an ice bath, microdose, sauna, wim hof technique, sauna, ice bath, and now I’m just working on healing my relationship with my mom and it’s connected to my past lives and I’m also working on my frequency trying to manifest the life of my dreams” It’s like man—you sure you didn’t just fry your nervous system? Lol. You sure you haven’t just become a chronic overthinker? Like, you sure you aren’t just pumping a bunch of energy to your head and you are literally making yourself verge on what normal people call mental illness? You sure all those wim hof sessions you’re doing aren’t just literally making you hyperventilate and causing your body to become so over stimulated your conciousness literally cannot stay anchored in it? You sure you aren’t just constantly overstimulating yourself and becoming more and more neurotic and ungrounded everyday? 🤔.  Honestly, that’s what it feels like to me. You bring this up and people get all squirmy and defensive because they’ve built this entire identity around being “spiritual” as if it means you’re supposed to be having all these crazy experiences, talk real slow like Rupert Spira, and be becoming more and more highly emotional and over intellectual about everything happening in their lives where everything means something esoteric. If you actually look soberly at the mechanics of what they’re doing, a lot of it is just building more and more layers of identity and self obsession, masquerading as spiritual lingo all while damaging their body. Just my current opinion and again if people are into it whatever I really don’t care at all it’s just that I literally see everyone doing the exact same thing thinking it is their higher self or whatever and it’s like hmm, you sure it isn’t actually just the YouTube algorithm churning an entire generation of people who probably genuinely started out seeking something deep being sucked into this ready-made whirlpool of insanity and disembodiment? 🤷🏼‍♂️