I'm glad many former non-duality celebrities are waking up from the trance, including Matt Kahn, who has not "come to Jesus" from the former new age like many, but has nevertheless broken the spell :) This is a very good and enjoyable rant :) I mean testimony :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzP1k6WHxPE

Apparently, we're doing this again... A little while ago, I put myself (and several others) through Rudolf Steiner’s Six Fundamental Exercises for my own (spiritual) scientific research. And, (somewhat inconveniently), this meant I had to actually do them myself. As someone who has spent a fair bit of time teaching these exercises — and enthusiastically telling other people how important they are — you might assume that I have now incorporated them into my life with the consistency, discipline and spiritual dignity of a highly evolved Aussie battler. 😂 No. Because apparently my spiritual development tends to go something like this: Day 1: "Right. This is it. From today: New me." Day 4: "I wonder what happened to that thing I was supposed to be doing..." Day 12: “Pass me another dorito please captain Netflix“ And so on. Actually, if I’m really honest I’m over playing this a bit to make a point. I did actually get better at this over the last few months. But anyway, the good news is that the first challenge was actually brilliant. Not because I suddenly became über-clairvoyant, saintly or capable of controlling my thoughts (or anyone else’s) for more than a short time. But because doing the exercises with other people made a huge difference to my motivation, accountability and understanding. There is something about knowing that a group of people are also attempting to pay attention, regulate their emotions, strengthen their will and generally become slightly less at the mercy of whatever nonsense their minds are producing that day. So... We're going again. Over the course of six days (starting 31.8.26) , we'll work through Rudolf Steiner's Six Fundamental Exercises together. One exercise at a time, no pressure to be perfect. No requirement to wear Buddha-esque faces and no need to become an Archangel by Thursday. Just a group of us attempting to practise some remarkably simple — and, I would argue, profoundly important — exercises for the development of a healthy and balanced soul life.

“He who consciously turns his mind, for one month, to the positive aspect of all his experiences will gradually notice a feeling creeping into him as if his skin were becoming porous on all sides, and as if his soul were opening wide to all kinds of secret and delicate processes in his environment which hitherto entirely escaped his notice.” “The thoughts and mentality of other beings and the laws governing natural phenomena become manifest … as figures, not rigid motionless figures but mobile forms filled with life. The [person] in whom this sense is developed can describe, for every mode of thought and for every law of nature, a form which expresses them. A revengeful thought, for example, assumes an arrow-like, pronged form, while a kindly thought is often formed like an opening flower, and so on. Clear-cut, significant thoughts are regular and symmetrical in form, while confused thoughts have wavy outlines.” From "How to Know Higher Worlds" by Rudolf Steiner Painting by Liane Collot D’ Herbois