Topic: Is energetic awareness an extension of Maya?
What do you think? You may recall the Shaolin priests on that famous television series Kung Fu, an excellent portrayal of spirituality, how they can always sense who is around them or sneaking up behind them by their chi, and all other sorts of energetic awareness.. you've probably heard of star children, how many are born with a kind of energetic awareness, maybe some become healers as they grow older.. and you're probably aware of those types of people who focus on their energetic awareness for a variety of different possible reasons.. however have you not also heard of the concept of Maya, how the conventional world is ultimately illusory in nature?.. to me it seems that such questions haven't any real answers available in the modern marketplace of ideas, just perspectives that make the mistake to be wiser than they are.. perhaps one almost always underestimates how different one person is from the next, and takes one's own life context too importantly in imagining how other people truly are.. I don't even want to get into all the different ways this can be considered, like the difference between proper advice to be given to a particular type of star child, soul, practitioner of a particular way, etc., how different this advice must be in each case.. perhaps beyond the right-hand-path "enlightened" dismissal of the realness of reality, and the subsequent left-hand-path sentiment of revolt that nothing at all can possibly be an illusion.. perhaps one thing is well expressed in the categorical dismissal of reality at large.. that energy is part of that thing called Maya, that it is as much an illusion as anything else.. those of energetic awareness may say that it is more real than the physical, but still the point would be that it is still physical in nature (just a different plane), coupled with whatever (supposedly) "objective" information and belief extending therefrom.. it seems strange to me how it is so difficult to find any mention in the entire marketplace of ideas throughout history and even in entertainments such as television or film, any reference of full self-realization without the "subsequent" powers this entails.. I read here a lot about neg influence and related energetic problems.. and truly it seems to me that the answer is never ever found in a particular physical movement, ritual, routine, or energetic manipulation.. but rather the answers always necessarily lie in right knowledge, especially of self.. could it be that we all misunderstand what it means to be enlightened or self-realized, that we all have preconceptions in mind, and nowhere in the marketplace of ideas is an accurate portrayal available?.. could this be one of the greatest weaknesses of the new-age movement, along with all those apparently 'evolved' followers?.. it just seems to me that wisdom today is not respected as a practical solution, but more as an ideal that one would obviously employ were the obstructing ignorance already transcended.. I believe, in fact I know that I have Seen what real, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, real spiritually aware existence, is, and I see it nowhere.. I'm not just remarking on how spiritually backwards society is.. I mean that I haven't seen it in a single place other than my personal experiences, really not even a single place.. I take solace in the fact that it is multi-faceted, and I would not always recognize it in others when it is different from within me.. but I am willing to bet that these last sentences will come off as ego-ridden, while simultaneously all the questions I previously posited will not receive any sufficient answers at all.. I would be glad to bet on it... and so, perhaps wisdom is no longer recognized?.. I mean if things were *THAT* bad, then nobody would realize it, else it wouldn't be *THAT* bad, right?
Sometimes I feel like I'm selling shit on a stick because the Truth hurts so to speak that badly lmao...

