kantuchdis ~
I easily understand your comments - I had that exact same attitude you spoke to when the original Woodstock happened in 1969!
"Those dirty hippies and the disgusting looking girls with hairy armpits and hairy legs and etc."
They probably all have venereal disease, of course - how could they not was my warped teeny brain/narrow minded thinking in 1969!
I had bought our society's lies in 1969 - lies still going on today, of course!!!
In 1969, I was working as a Mechanical Engineer in industry with a flat top crew cut, plastic pocket protector, slide rule and etc.
I also had a wife, a two year old son and a home with the all-American white picket fence, ha ha ha, and was quite an extreme right winger joining the John Birch Society.
In 1970 I got pivoted out of my ME career path and the next day I was working in direct-to-consumer straight commission sales in residential roofing on the Main Line here locally and crossed paths with many people and many things that caused a major transformation for me and with me - two of those big primary things was the mind expansion that is part of LSD and Mushroom psychedelics along with pot, and partnered with my first love - music > that being jazz and classical - but this time the music was all about the psychedelic music scene in the Bay area of San Francisco - you ever hear of that "hippie band" named The Grateful Dead? The Dead were, literally speaking, the Tip Of That Musical Iceberg in the Bay area in 1969, yes!
There was so much more mind expansion music happening then and it all was mostly birthed in the Bay area out West!!
I have never looked back and have zero regrets about my life pre 1970 other than a keen awareness to be most grateful that I did not live my life in that :straight" Engineering world!
I got lucky and escaped that straight world forever at age 28 in June of 1970, thru no doing on my part!
That world, I now know, was a prison for me of my own creation - very common among us humans, yes!
About that, please see / listen to "The Eagles and their Hotel California tune.
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Lyrics =
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
The tune =
That song has been described as being "all about American decadence and burnout, too much money, corruption, drugs and arrogance; too little humility and heart." It has also been interpreted as an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s.
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Today, my health is very good or better than ever, still rockin at 81 years!
I'm a marathon runner, I wear my long white hair in a ponytail that is halfway down my back and a whole lot more of mostly invisible transformation, to now live in a most joyful and happy life drenched with Inner Peace and Serenity and . . . Non-Duality!
Your comments are Dualistic.
Non Duality is a doctrine of classic Brahmanism holding that the essential unity of all is real whereas duality and plurality are phenomenal illusion and that matter is materialized energy which in turn is the temporal manifestation of an incorporeal spiritual eternal essence constituting the innermost self of all things.
~ or, said another way ~
Non-dualistic traditions often assert that ultimate reality is a unified, undivided whole, and any apparent distinctions or separations are illusions. The term “non-dual” is derived from the Sanskrit word “advaita,” which means “not two” or “non-dual.”
* * * Now,that you have that background . . . back to your (perceived dark) comments you shared with us ... and with all respect to you - you are 180 degrees OFF TARGET on absolutely everything you spoke to - except for one item, that being the burning incense.
Perhaps she will burn incense and/or I'll bring some with me to our next session!!!
As you now know, I have lived on both sides of that fence and you now have my rebuttal to your comments!
Thank you for reading, and . . .
Thank y'all for being here for the rest of us guys - - IT'S ALL GOOD!
Thank you!
ps: "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Attributed to Herbert Spencer but most likely a derivative quote from William Paley.