Steven Sashen — The Anti-Guru Blog

Category: New Age

  • Mantra power from Sweden

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    I was just remembering a scene from Ram Das’ Be Here Now. I don’t know if I’ve remembered it correctly since I haven’t read the book in over 20 years. I think most people who quote the title of that book as if it were a prescription for living haven’t read it… but that’s besides…

  • Start watching TV, Maitreya is coming, Maitreya is coming!

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    Over the last few weeks, there have been full-page ads in our local paper, The Daily Camera, announcing that Maitreya, the One World Healer, the World Teacher, the Messiah, the returning Christ (sorry for any confusion, all of the previous are referring to the same dude), will soon be back on earth and, even better,…

  • Die your potential

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    Okay, here’s a chance for you to earn $20. I’ll give a Jackson, 2 Hamiltons, 4 Lincolns, 20 Washingtons or one-fifth of a Franklin to the first person who can send me a biography, autobiography, or recorded or printed interview with someone who says: “I have achieved my full and complete potential. I have done…

  • Well, I’ll be reintarnated!

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    Oprah seems to be making her way down the New Age aisle of the bookstore lately. From The Secret to Ekhart Tolle and now to past lives (I do NOT want to see the show she does on colon cleansing!). Have you ever heard someone talk about their past lives? Or heard someone tell another…

  • Questioning Questions

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    “How old were you when you stopped having sex with your pet?” “What!? I never had sex with my pet!” “Stop avoiding the question. How old were you?” “But, I…” That argument is clearly going nowhere. And the reason is obvious: the most important part of the question is actually the assumption underneath it. The…

  • You’re special… SO special

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    Humanity is at a critical junction. One path is to chaos and destruction. The other is to a level of peace and harmony and abundance that is far greater than you can even imagine.What determines which path we take? There are powerful energies that are beginning to become apparent, energies that can be harnessed to…

  • In fact, I DON’T want to ATTRACT anything to me

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    If I get one more email with information about how to Attract more money, more clients, the right relationship, a better job, a new car, or anything else for that matter, I think I’m going to scream (actually, I just got THREE of them, which made me scream, and then write this post). Here’s another…

  • Okay, Oprah, let’s settle this once and for all…

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    Have questions or having trouble manipulating the atoms in the universe with your thoughts? Well, Oprah feels your pain and is going to do a show just for people like you. But rather than merely attracting guests by seeing, believing and receiving, she’s actively soliciting people who, for some reason, can’t make the UNIVERSAL LAW…

  • Hoping to be a successhole

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    I’m on a linguistic role. Here’s my new submission for addition into the lexicon: Successhole (suc·cess·hole; pronounciation: \sÉ™k-ˈses-(h)ōl\). noun. A person who, upon achieving some dramatic change in status or income makes it abundantly clear that s/he thinks this change is primarily a result of her/his actions and discounts the role of luck, chance, and…

  • Manifrustration

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    I’m proposing a new word for the English language: Manifrustration (man·i·frus·tra·tion ; pronunciation: \ËŒma-nÉ™-frÉ™s-ˈtrā-shÉ™n\) Noun. 1) The unhappiness associated with not getting what you want after attempting to influence the universe with your thoughts 2) The displeasure that occurs when the manifestation “master” says you haven’t gotten what you want because there’s something wrong with…

  • Shave and a haircut, two…

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    How many of you automatically added “bits” to the end of the title of this post? There’s a great scene in a Steve Martin movie: We’re outside his hotel door and hear him practicing the tuba. A woman walks to the door. He plays the tune for “Shave and a haircut, two…” and the woman…

  • Our REAL greatest fear

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    Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. And that the moment we realize this, we will get hit by a bus and lose control of our bowels. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. Because that light shines on our darkness… and sometimes…