Barack Lightworker
Posted on June 9th, 2008
by Daniel Larison |
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Here’s where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul. ~Mark Morford (who is apparently not kidding)
Of course, the moment you read that bit about these “spiritually advanced people,” you should start keeping a lookout for the nearest Scientologist offering to use his Tech to help you advance.
I was ahead of the curve in noticing something related to this Obama-worship:
This is someone who says, “Obviously, you are all terribly wrong, but I am such a good guy that I am going to indulge you in your false notions out of compassion for your suffering.” The Messiah references have been all wrong–this is Obama as bodhisattva. “You cling to your delusions, but I am here to teach you a path of liberation from all such attachments.”
If he has these magical powers, perhaps the Obama campaign could arrange to have the city of San Francisco sealed inside its own pocket of the space-time continuum until the election is over.
Ack. This stuff makes me crazy. We have a shot at electing the first legitimately liberal president in decades, a guy who actually seems to have thoughts in his head and to take seriously the fact that there are other people who have thoughts in their heads, and we have goofy people like this trying to make all of his supporters look like cultists.
Is it too much to ask that we say something like “This guy just put together a coalition that beat the Clintons in a Democratic primary. He’s an incredibly gifted politician with some good ideas about the country” and leave it at that?
Many years ago I was in Ruidoso NM on a weekend retreat with a New Agey girlfriend and at some point, I was getting a New Agey massage by a professional. It was pleasant enough. I was chatting as she was walking on my back and there was some kind of Buddha waterfall in the background.
At some point, the masseuse told me that “energy workers” were hard to work on and take a lot of patience. Working at the big oil law firm of Baker Botts in Dallas, I said, you mean like folks at KBR and Shell, rough necks, that sort of thing?
The awkwardness ensued. Apparently “energy worker” meant like people that do some kind of shamanism with crystals. I was pretty darn confused.
Oh well, the massage was good enough.