For example, I am reading a book by
Kamal Ravikant whom I reviewed a few months ago. The book,
Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart is a pilgrimage he took that gave him different ways to be… gave him different ways to at least try on and feel if it fits… all so he can transform his life. The pilgrimage was a possible turning point for him. Do turning points always work? Yes and no… often they are just experiences, only for you soon to return to your default way of being, like Kamal Ravikant did.
Of course the dumb, the gullible, and the pretentious love and celebrate him as a guru… and maybe he is… like all the other Indian gurus, full of crapola.
The idea of reinventing yourself is actually quite popular… but without having a clue about beingness… it is b.s. And without knowing the ‘rules of invented ways , the grammar, the format, it is all just affirmations at best.
Affirmations are worded as a lie… so the mind rejects them.
The moment you invent a being for yourself, the clock starts ticking. Being is always now. You can’t become some being someday… But most of us either don’t know that, or consider ourselves the exception… so you invent some being that you know nothing about… And of course it doesn’t work… It can’t work… It is now cheap words, nothing more.
I have only Landmark Education to bring as an example: all their education is about beingness, none of their results are in the domain of beingness… alas.