I’m glad to see you know who has stopped touting himself as a shaktipat conferring guru and become excellent at a job he’s really cut out for and loves.  That’s how you serve the world. If someone can in fact transmit shaktipat to you, they are not likely to talk about it, nor charge you initiation fees at workshops.  But if it uplifts you to go thru the motions, by all means keep flocking to these marketers.