big fat hooey

I don't know WHY Cody gets this brochure in the m ail every once and a while for "the crossings". It's a place in Austin where you can take classes in a wide variety of useless crap. Actually useless crap is a bit kind. The kinds of classes being taught at this place are evil in its purest form of placing self above God...placing self AS God. A few of the class offerings: The Wave: A Life-Changing Insight into the Heart and Mind of the Cosmos, Past Life Therapy Training, Good Vibes: A Celebration of Personal Vibration, Primordial Qigong. The blurbs that explain the class goals and content are often ridiculous. Here is my favorite. You will probably think I am making this up, but I promise this is an actual class offering and the paragraph that describes it.

Humming Your Shadow Home
Humming your shadow home is an intimate exploration of the process of opening, embracing, and softening every part of us. The mind is mostly shadow posing as light; the body is mostly light that seemingly casts a shadow. In this workshop, we will reverse the two by inviting the mind to step back into the choir.
Your shadow is whatever you do not wish to see, hear, or feel about yourself. Scheduling a conscious appointment to meet your shadow is an essential step in getting to know who you really are. This frees the mind from its illusion of control and returns it to its natural and rightful role of creating effortless entertainment. The result is that we are able to reclaim our bodies and embrace the spaces, dark places, and deep graces we may have missed in our every day busy-ness.
You deserve to experience yourself as the whole, natural, and satisfied human being that you really are. As you learn to deregulate your attention, you provide an open economy where you can perceive what goes on around you without feeling a need to edit it.

That little paragraph has every current buzz word and idea that might possibly grab and reel in any somewhat dim self-absorbed nit-wit.
I could go on and on about the inconsistencies and illogical ideas presented in this very brief class summary. The truth is that people are extremely spiritual these days. They are searching for spiritual nourishment and seeking a deep unchanging truth to fill the sense of longing in their souls. The problem is that these people are turning to eastern rituals and new age hocus pocus instead of the everlasting truth of God the creator. It's important for Christians to know and experience God daily so that he can change our lives and make us whole and appealing to those that are searching for truth. People should look at our lives and wonder why we are fulfilled, joyful, at peace. And we should be able to answer.