Reference Library of Awful
don’t trust the big names
The question that keeps arising as we work our way through dismantling the lies of the big names in the spiritual and self help space is — who is trustworthy?
It’s human nature to want to seek answers, and one of the assumptions that we make is that if someone is a published author, good advice rests in those pages. What we’re seeing is far too often that isn’t the case.
Big name after big name after big name is feeding us terrible advice. You can’t swing a cat without hitting a celebrity psychic, NYTimes bestselling author, or social media hotshot pushing energetic techniques that will land you in the hottest of hot water.
My bookshelf was filled with supposedly helpful advice on how to navigate psychic and mediumship abilities. I’ve reshelved all of them into a category I’ve dubbed A Reference Library of Awful. I’m not ready to part with them just yet as I continue to analyze and expose the trends in their work, but heck if I’m going to recommend them to anyone.
This actually prompts an interesting quandary a number of you have voiced. What do you do with these books that provide downright dangerous advice? It feels irresponsible to pass them on to someone else (even by way of donation), yet throwing them in the trash can feel wasteful. Wasteful or not, that’s exactly what most of you are doing. You don’t want to perpetuate these traps that the who's who of the spiritual it crowd are promoting. Into the bin they go. The truly industrious have set them ablaze.
Trying to figure it alone while experiencing each of the potential pitfalls first hand sounds infinitely lonely. But if all of the books on the market are garbage, figuratively and now literally, where do we turn?
Some thoughts —
Knowing what doesn’t work can be as powerful as learning what does.
That bookshelf of bad advice (because we all have one) has taught you to spot the lies and deception and see straight through it. You’re savvy to the tips and tricks of the evil and their manipulations. The trick is to remember that regardless of how many people are pushing an idea, that doesn’t make it good. Faustian bargains will skyrocket your career just as effectively (if not more) than hard work and talent. Use a discerning eye when choosing what you read.
Cherry pick the best parts. Leave the rest.
Even the people with the worst possible advice have a few gems thrown in there. Seduction doesn’t work if it’s all a sea of lies. Scattered throughout the suggestions that lead you into the arms of beings who wish you harm are some genuine truths. Continue to hone your gauge of distinguishing between the two.
Build your own resources.
There’s no one out there with a roadmap of how to implement your unique energetic abilities in your life. Anyone who says he or she has such a thing is selling you a bill of goods. We’re in uncharted territory with energetic obstacles that have never before been faced. It’s exciting!! And terrifying!
What goes hand in hand with that is expansion and opportunity beyond our comprehension. Use the advice and tools from the past that still apply. Scrap the rest.
You are the cartographer of the new horizons. The reference books you seek don’t exist because they have yet to be written. We are the authors of what is to come.
Trust your authority above all others.
Perhaps I should have led with this. After all, it’s the most crucial point I can make.
No recommendation, no matter how sound, is the right fit if it doesn’t work for you. There are things that can only be learned through trial and error. Scratched knees are part of the game. Your preferred way to cut an onion may differ from mine. Neither of us wants to lose a finger.
Trust the quiet voice telling you that something doesn’t feel right, and please, please, please listen to the screaming one. That voice has more wisdom than the entirety of the Library of Congress.
We’re in an odd time. The energetic shifts can be felt more palpably than ever before in our lifetimes. This propels us to seek answers in those we think hold the knowledge. Unfortunately, evil is also at its grabbiest and will do whatever it takes to get its mitts on us. The stakes are high.
As these new books emerge into the world, ask yourself if the authors are coming from a place of saying, “Hey! I’ve been through some tough stuff and have learned things along the way. Here! Let me share in case this could benefit you too,” rather than professing that they have THE solutions and THE answers. Those are surefire indications that you can put the book back down and walk away.
I can say definitively, we’re going to get things wrong. We’ll trust the wrong person. We’ll follow terrible advice. We’ll change our minds. We’ll learn. We’ll evolve. We’ll choose differently the next time.
This is what it is to be alive. This is what it is to be human. Good luck!
Let’s compare notes as we navigate this crazy ride.
Love this topic and I just cleaned out my bookshelves last week purging them of those very people that are canonized in self help world. Felt lovely. As often, our timing… 😉 xoxoxo
I haven‘t read much of your writing yet but liked your Joe Dispenza pieces. My attendance at his retreat has definitely strenghtened the belief in myself and my intuition. Interestingly, not even talk about (alien or other) negative energy work or devices ring ‚true‘ to me anymore. I walk away from that world and know that I am healthy and fine and protected, always. Nothing to ‚heal‘ at all, even on ‚bad‘ days. I do like Vadim Zeland‘s Reality Transurfing rules as general guidance without a price-tag, but the Tao Te Ching works equally. Maybe I just ‚woke up‘ to letting go of the imagination of some magic fantasy world. And boy does it feel good.