Ha. No, you needn't continue. I know the type well, I used to be one for a long time.
Well, I have a college education, but part of it was at a hippy college =)
There is a balance within all of this. Those of us who are truly seekers of the highest orders shouldn't lose our balance amidst all the extremism and lunacy. There is truth everywhere, some truth in all of it.
There's a funny piece online [
snakelyone.com]
It's called 12 Steps for Recovering New Agers
It's pretty long, but there's some funny stuff in there.
The writer goes to the opposite extreme in essentially advising people to become beer-swilling meat heads in order to rid yourself of the delusion that you're about to become an enlightened white-light 5th level master at the next weekend retreat you sign up for. This, of course, is unnecessary, but his point is well taken. Maybe one or two beer swilling weekends watching hockey in the local bar with your neighbors isn't a bad idea. Maybe even chew some tobacco and spit it in a can.
Balance, balance. The middle path is the most challenging.