Comments on: About me http://tarot.michaelsharp.org The Revolutionary Halo/Sharp Tarot Deck Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ms http://tarot.michaelsharp.org/about-me/#comment-6 ms Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:10:22 +0000 http://demo.michaelsharp.org/?page_id=25#comment-6 You are right. There's hardly any "safe places" and right now it is very easy for the process to be "hijacked." But that's because there isn't a good professional foundation for spiritually sophisticated practice. How do you know what counts as insight and truth, and what's just a bunch of hot air. A degree from Harvard and a list of publications a mile long won't guarantee you sophisticated spiritual knowledge. What I want to do is provide that foundation by providing an entirely integrated set of concepts, ideas, definitions, and terms. Once this is developed, then we can "certify" people as professionally qualified. Not only would this bring some professional practice to what amounts right now to a spiritual free for all, it would give people confidence and help them discern who was worth talking to, and really help speed the process along. Once this is done, then we'd have to the tools which we could give people (both at a professional level and a lay person level) so that they wouldn't be in any danger from egoic guris/therapists/healers and the like. They'd have their own defenses. m You are right. There’s hardly any “safe places” and right now it is very easy for the process to be “hijacked.” But that’s because there isn’t a good professional foundation for spiritually sophisticated practice. How do you know what counts as insight and truth, and what’s just a bunch of hot air. A degree from Harvard and a list of publications a mile long won’t guarantee you sophisticated spiritual knowledge.

What I want to do is provide that foundation by providing an entirely integrated set of concepts, ideas, definitions, and terms. Once this is developed, then we can “certify” people as professionally qualified. Not only would this bring some professional practice to what amounts right now to a spiritual free for all, it would give people confidence and help them discern who was worth talking to, and really help speed the process along.

Once this is done, then we’d have to the tools which we could give people (both at a professional level and a lay person level) so that they wouldn’t be in any danger from egoic guris/therapists/healers and the like. They’d have their own defenses.

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]]> By: anne http://tarot.michaelsharp.org/about-me/#comment-5 anne Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:29 +0000 http://demo.michaelsharp.org/?page_id=25#comment-5 Hi Michael, I'm finding your website/free e books very interesting. The basic premise resonates with my own experiences. I like the idea of training/encouraging therapists to work in a different paradigm - while it's needed anyway. I think things are shifting fast socially. My musing would be how does one create enough safe "places" for people to touch base to get grounded and be supported while making the shift without the potential for egoic gurus/therapists/healers to hijack the process...? Hi Michael,

I’m finding your website/free e books very interesting.
The basic premise resonates with my own experiences.

I like the idea of training/encouraging therapists to work in a different paradigm - while it’s needed anyway. I think things are shifting fast socially. My musing would be how does one create enough safe “places” for people to touch base to get grounded and be supported while making the shift without the potential for egoic gurus/therapists/healers to hijack the process…?

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