My friend Armand Della Volpe posted on Facebook: “So many people today are throwing around words and phrases such as spirituality, intention, highest potential, higher self, purpose, attraction, vibration. The list goes on and on. We can form pretty sentences like, “My intention is to raise my vibration to the level of my highest self so I can reach the goal of my highest potential and FINALLY live my purpose and attract an amazing life!” It sounds good, doesn’t it? But what does it mean? Did the person who said this know what he or she was talking about? To me, undefined spiritual lingo is poetry, at best—manipulation and control, at worst.”… Mastin Kipp
I could totally relate. I commented: Armand, as an editor, ghost writer and publisher of 20+ years, I’ve experienced this many times. Often people are so quick to want a thought out of their head that they don’t take time to contemplate and proofread to realize what they wrote does not convey what they mean to convey. In most cases, I kinda know what they mean but they aren’t saying it. I’m having to fill in the blanks.
Some people are good speakers but it doesn’t translate to the written word, and vice versa. Often someone submits an article and they are not complete sentences. Poetry? At times. But it’s mostly “undefined spiritual lingo” that doesn’t tell me anything and often is not even a complete sentence. It’s usually someone anxious to understand something — some writing is meant only for the writer, to help the writer when s/he reads it again.
When I hit 40 and the writing began pouring out of me, my thought was that “the world has to get all this info!” I wrote in Half the People I Know Are Having a Book Channeled Through Them: “Maybe I was just meant to write it for myself, because the writing of it taught me so many lessons along the way. My experience is that when the channelling starts to flow and we think “Omigosh I HAVE to get this information out there!” that is just the Universe giving us the body chemicals for inspiration, dangling the carrot before us, at a time when we’re still programmed to think that some fame and recognition would be kind of cool. So the first 10-20 years I thought I was writing for the whole world, then realized it was to help me change me and learn what I needed to know to become who I am now, and keep me on the path to who I can be.”
I think writing is important, and particularly helpful for spiritual growth. When we get sidetracked from writing as a spiritual practice, we can seek validation by writing essays and articles that don’t really say anything — undefined spiritual lingo as Kipp calls it. All that is needed is more understanding of the concepts you seek to write about, and learn how to articulate how it applies in your own daily life. That’s what teaches.
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