UPG: an ugly, misguided notion

[icymist]

3. I like finding this type of article that makes you think...

When I was younger there were too many times that my personal experience was dismissed because it wasn't the experience that was written down or that an 'elder' didn't experience it with me under their 'guidance'. This led me to actually doubt myself until it got to that point that I started to keep the experiences to myself. Then I met a witch in Central Illinois and all of a sudden all those experiences became valid. That's one of the lessons I can give out to others: Never invalidate what others say they experienced just because it isn't what is considered the norm. We all have life lessons to learn here and no two are alike. I remember the Buddha saying something like 'The realization experience is true. As soon as that realization experience gets written down, it has become corrupt.'

Well, that's enough of this rant.