Thanks to your bump i watched about 15 seconds of it, and you owe me a drink. 
  
  Nah man - personal responsibility. I will however be glad to buy you a couple rounds for those pointers on spriritual authors (Adyashanti etc) that you gave me the other day  

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God, I know what you mean about the ego party in new clothes. I come across people every now & then into spirituality, and it takes over the way they talk, act, dress, everything. And I can't help but immediately see the egoic identification involved for what it is. I recently met a yoga teacher who gave me a long unsolicited lecture on "spiritual living"; didn't have the heart to tell him that a lot of what he was talking about I was already ruminating on, and was already doing a lot of the practices that he claimed were "making such a diffirence in his life." Afterwards, I realised that essentially there was little difference between him and a Jehova's Witness at my door....
I have been into spirituality for a long time now, and in the last year have gotten much more into meditation and "karma yoga", and am thinking about getting into either yoga, qi gong, or tai chi 'cause it's time I started taking care of my body as well as my mind. However, this level of interest - to the point where I am beginning to view my life as a 'sadhana' - does not require me to change the way I talk (profanity still abounds!  

 ), what I do either for a living or recreationally, what I eat, what I wear, or what topics of conversation I am willing to entertain (although this last one will still get filtered through my level of interest in the topic anyway  

 ). If you wear it as a costume, then the  whole point is being missed......
"Chop wood, carry water."  
 
 
And yes, I agree - a lot of those guys looked like they entered this movement because unconsciously they figured "dis is a good way ta get me sum pussy."
Mind you, you & I discussed in another thread about a more subtle form of identification in spiritual practice: like a low-volume recording in the back of your mind while you're out & about, watching everyone go about their business, that goes "Yeah, imma so enlightened compared to dese saps."  

 . THAT's the fucker I have to keep my eye on (and i'm pretty sure you do as well) but I am recognising it more quickly as it pops up, so I guess it'll take care of itself if I remain aware, but don't make too big a deal out of it  

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@ Alchemist - I totally agree. I basically said before that I still found a lot of feminist self-pity peppered throughout her apology. However, I felt the need to post this; in all fairness she did make some effort after all, and raised some of the points that I really believe women need to start taking into consideration.
I also should've pointed out that one of the things that motivated me to post this was that it seems like i'm coming down from the 'post red-pill bitterness', after many 'false recoveries'. I wanted to test that by seeing how comfortable I would feel posting this. I should've clearly stated this selfish intention in the previous post. Sorry 'bout that  

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