Finding the middle ground between outmoded perspectives i find to be really not a good idea. I'm sorry about the rage thing.

I'm not sure if it's a reflection of some part of me i won't accept or not. I got pretty pissed on first reading carlos casteneda too same way. This in the early 70's i guess. Still part of my nature i reckon. It's when i think somebody is taking the new age surge of energy in a direction i judge as wrong. In larger sense, i think of these as psychic infections or something like that, that wouldn't gain entry unless they were needed and will fix things as they run their course. I know it's judgemental as it can be. but very difficult for me to unsee it and not sure if i even can. Like carlos i think took a whole lot of energy in the direction of personal power, that i think could have better been put into collective power. I KNEW on the first page that it was fiction, a fact that came out much much later. Not a healing in the whole series,and gave rise to a whole genre of phony spiritual experience books that cheapened the real but less flashy experience that my friends were having themcellves. Just a lie for the sake of money and career. Wilbur not a lie, just a bunch of confused gobbldegook IMO. It leads nowhere that i can tell. The clothes have no emperor. What we are talking about is direct, experiential, and very much alive. I'd never know that from reading wilbur. Heavy sigh.

I just listened to some more of him. It's not that it's wrong..just that it's fluffed up . I listened to him talk about reincarnation, he backpedeled and said he personally thought it was possible then pressed in interview said he believed in it but that he was looking for the things that appealed to the broadest number of people to stress in his system..................man that is SO lame.

But i'm over rage completely now and contrite and sorry and this last i'd like to say and people who like carlos and wilbur should just consider me a cranky old geezer and let me go on my way.