Many major ‘conscious’ speakers, authors, and gurus are staying silent on the story. Why? Are they protecting their image?

Below is a very good essay written byScott Mills.I wanted to showcase this to all of you with some added thoughts, as I find this subject important to discuss out in the open. In his piece, Mills will share his thoughts and reflections about Deepak Chopra’s Epstein connection from the lens of a prominent figure in the spiritual and personal development space himself.

As I wroteon Facebookwhile sharing this post, many of our newer followers might not know that CE has been around for 17 years. For many years, we were the biggest website in the conscious media space, amassing over 30 million viewers monthly. As a result, everyone wanted to be part of our platform and collaborate with us. Naturally, this meant we met a lot of people in this field. We got to see a lot of things.

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Over the years, we realized that many of the so called ‘conscious experts’ out there were not quite what they seemed. From manufactured rises to fame, to ghost writing, to a lack of integrity, to avoiding real subjects because they were hard to talk about. It was all common. Further, the focus was often on placating existing audiences enough to keep them, make money off them, and not hurt their brand in the process – even if it meant being disingenuous.

It was also obvious that many did not understand the real world very much. I can recall being involved in email threads with many prominent figures where I couldn’t help but feel they were deeply out of touch with political reality. There was a big disconnect between the type of spirituality they were teaching and how to actually live it in the real world.

Over time, even though CE brought personal development and consciousness into our work in a practical way that actually applied to the real world, many of these figures and brands distanced themselves from us because we spoke about controversial subjects. Not subjects that are false, just controversial ones.

They called our work ‘negative’ at times, and as if it was creating a divide. Yet our work did the total opposite to people who actually paid attention. Over time, I began to realize many of these ‘gurus’ were avoiding real subjects because they didn’t want to appear as though they were ‘unconscious’ or not a guru. They didn’t want the negative image they were projecting onto us to be placed on themselves. Further, they wanted to appear positive almost all the time. This spread to their followers who’d use positivity as a means to spiritually bypass real things happening in their lives and in our world.

Years would go by, and I’d watch more and more of their followers collapse under the weight of the spiritual bypassing. Eventually leaving personal development fields and going back to religious traditions to find what they were looking for. It wasn’t because the work in the personal development and spiritual field is bad – it was just incomplete, and it’s largely because many of the ‘gurus’ are not growing themselves. Forcing positivity in a chaotic and changing world is not what’s being asked of us right now. Creating integrated change agents is.

When I learned what I learned about Chopra and Epstein I was not surprised. And while I think all of the people Scott lists below have done some good work in this world, there is also the question of how often people choose to protect their own brand and image – so they can make money – over addressing real truths about our society and creating real change when it matters.

Source: SGT Report