{"id":379,"date":"2012-12-21T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-12-21T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:36:02","slug":"are-you-a-spiritual-wanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/are-you-a-spiritual-wanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a spiritual wanker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Walsh (from Brighton in the UK) calls out 9 symptoms of spiritual wankery that are spot on, with humor even.  &#8220;I find if I sigh, and use my breathy voice, it&#8217;s just way more spiritual.&#8221;  The symptoms are:<\/p>\n<p>1) Wanky language (&#8220;energy,&#8221; &#8220;manifesting&#8221;)<br \/>\n2) Gratuitous foreign languages (Tibetan, Sanskrit)<br \/>\n3) The (soft spoken) spiritual voice<br \/>\n4) Spiritual materialism (to feel superior)<br \/>\n5) Vagueness (esp. re: science)<br \/>\n6) Just another way to get high<br \/>\n7) Being a loser\/aspiring to wealth<br \/>\n8) Thinking you have magic powers (Yeah, you, Law of Attraction)<br \/>\n9) Being a dick (justified by your higher spiritual state).<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Walsh peddles his own spiritual package, Integration Training, and I haven&#8217;t looked into that.  But this video is gold.<\/p>\n<p>Namaste, bitches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Walsh (from Brighton in the UK) calls out 9 symptoms of spiritual wankery that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[171,56,163,170,25,51,65,52,155,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}