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Note: I had a rather unusual upbringing, (my father says he can predict the future in his dreams, and commune with ghosts in his dreams, and my Atheist grandmother took me to a Baptist church. I ended up becoming Buddhist a few years ago.) so I don't wanna say that these new-age discussions are crazy. But I'll admit they weird me out.
In college, I'm mostly taking humanities classes, as it's my first semester, and I wanted to take 'fun' classes to ease into college life. One of my classes is Meditation, which I took partly because I thought I didn't know how to meditate (I realized very quickly that my idea of meditation was extremely limited, and I meditated quite often in reality) and partly for the funzies.
Well, a kid walked up to me, and asked how the class was doing. He said he dropped it because it A: had too much work, B: was taught by a teacher that didn't seem to know a lot about meditation and C: had a lot of very unusual people in it.
I realized I'd pretty much ignored it, but I ended up being one of the normal people in this class. As a celebration of this, I am going to chronicle the weirdest discussions or comments I've overheard/partaken in. I may update this as I have more classes.
Quotes
Girl: I was passing energy from my hand to her's-
Teacher: Oh that's very dangerous. You should work on energy within yourself before you try and interact with other people that way. You could hurt yourself.
Girl: Oh.
Guy: The earth just can't sustain us as it is.
Woman: I don't believe God made the earth that way. He made an earth that can handle humans.
Man: I was thinking of doing my [meditation] project on Reiki.
Teacher: Oh, ok.
Man: A lot of people don't understand Reiki, y'know?
Teacher: Uh-huh.
Man: Sometimes they use gemstones or crystals...
Me: I had Reiki done once. It was for my Sociology class. We were supposed to have a new experience and write about it. She used polished stones.
Man: That's odd.
Me: I don't remember the name of the store, but it's somewhere in [town] if you wanted to check it out.
The man then shows me all of the Reiki healing spots or something like that, then heads off to do his project.
The craziest quote for last is:
Man: Yeah, there's a group of really influential rich people, and they're trying to take the world population down to like, seven thousand. They're trying to bring the apocalypse. They're the ones that created the flu, and are preventing cancer from being cured, and they caused 9/11...
Finally, this isn't much of quote (as it would have been a very long quote) but the teacher is obsessed with Chinese things. Impressively she has mastered the language in 5 years (rather than the 16 they say it takes Chinese to be learned as a second language). But she would like us to call her teacher in Chinese (laoshi), and told us we should go to this Chinese school in a nearby college, even though they were probably Chinese spies, and made you do interviews that were probably used for propaganda videos.
Yes.
So there are some stuff that is new-age, and some stuff that's just flat-out-crazy.
In college, I'm mostly taking humanities classes, as it's my first semester, and I wanted to take 'fun' classes to ease into college life. One of my classes is Meditation, which I took partly because I thought I didn't know how to meditate (I realized very quickly that my idea of meditation was extremely limited, and I meditated quite often in reality) and partly for the funzies.
Well, a kid walked up to me, and asked how the class was doing. He said he dropped it because it A: had too much work, B: was taught by a teacher that didn't seem to know a lot about meditation and C: had a lot of very unusual people in it.
I realized I'd pretty much ignored it, but I ended up being one of the normal people in this class. As a celebration of this, I am going to chronicle the weirdest discussions or comments I've overheard/partaken in. I may update this as I have more classes.
Quotes
Girl: I was passing energy from my hand to her's-
Teacher: Oh that's very dangerous. You should work on energy within yourself before you try and interact with other people that way. You could hurt yourself.
Girl: Oh.
Guy: The earth just can't sustain us as it is.
Woman: I don't believe God made the earth that way. He made an earth that can handle humans.
Man: I was thinking of doing my [meditation] project on Reiki.
Teacher: Oh, ok.
Man: A lot of people don't understand Reiki, y'know?
Teacher: Uh-huh.
Man: Sometimes they use gemstones or crystals...
Me: I had Reiki done once. It was for my Sociology class. We were supposed to have a new experience and write about it. She used polished stones.
Man: That's odd.
Me: I don't remember the name of the store, but it's somewhere in [town] if you wanted to check it out.
The man then shows me all of the Reiki healing spots or something like that, then heads off to do his project.
The craziest quote for last is:
Man: Yeah, there's a group of really influential rich people, and they're trying to take the world population down to like, seven thousand. They're trying to bring the apocalypse. They're the ones that created the flu, and are preventing cancer from being cured, and they caused 9/11...
Finally, this isn't much of quote (as it would have been a very long quote) but the teacher is obsessed with Chinese things. Impressively she has mastered the language in 5 years (rather than the 16 they say it takes Chinese to be learned as a second language). But she would like us to call her teacher in Chinese (laoshi), and told us we should go to this Chinese school in a nearby college, even though they were probably Chinese spies, and made you do interviews that were probably used for propaganda videos.
Yes.
So there are some stuff that is new-age, and some stuff that's just flat-out-crazy.
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