03-14-2017, 10:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-14-2017, 11:33 AM by Eric the Green.)
(03-14-2017, 10:32 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-14-2017, 09:32 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I was wondering, are nomads the only generation who, resenting and rebelling against it, never have the chance or opportunity or willingness to have a spiritual awakening in their lives? Are they a type that never get touched by grace, as it were? Is this also true of early or middle-cohort civics?
Usually Nomads are to busy cleaning up Idealist messes to have time for a "spiritual awakening". Y'all get the party, we get to clean up the house before the parents show up.
Quote:I doubt that's true. But it seems to evade a lot of core and late Xers.
No it didn't evade us. We just didn't allow it to invade us.
Well, you are certainly an example of one Xer who it didn't happen for.
It is typical of Marxists, and Xer former Marxists, to claim that spiritual experience and its cultures are just effete bourgeois indulgence. Tell that to all the poor people in India and China through the centuries, or the peasants of the European middle ages who flocked to pilgrimages and cathedrals.
Quote:Quote:I am so thankful for such awakening as I have had. I feel blest; it made such a difference to me, however much more of it I still may need or like to have. It enriched beyond measure my life, and that of many boomers and silents that I know or knew. And the best part of it was the first part of it, my first awakening in 1966-67.
So what you're saying here is you first dropped acid and lost yourself to the throws of a psychotropic drug back in 1966. And after that your brain was too fried to remember if you had any subsequent such events. Got it.
Whenever you say "got it," it appears, is a sure sign that you didn't get it.
Some of us, including me, didn't need to drop acid or anything else to have this experience. Whatever little I did drop a bit later on just got in the way.
1966 was an awakening vibration wave that swept the country and the core blue boomer generation. And it affected many GIs and Silents as well, and later on even some Jones Boomers and Xers to some extent.