So I was reading an article about Eskmo a few weeks ago, and this bit stuck out to me:

“Despite, or more likely because of, the influence of expanded consciousness on his new work, Angelides is careful to avoid the spiritual elitism or new age-hooey that can cause audience recoil. ‘There’s always a fine line of it becoming this holier than thou thing. The music can get really lost in cheesiness or a certain level of hippie-dom. I thought a lot about even putting out a track called “Oh in this World of Dread, Carry On.” Ultimately, it just has to feel good instead of just being some cerebral ego thing.’”

I have been thinking about this concept a lot in the past few years especially— not just in regards to music, but this entire elitist new-age inconsistency. It seems that for many, becoming an ‘egoless’ embodiment of spirituality lends itself to this …ironically egocentric inflation of self. I’ve met so many who preach their ‘love and light’ with this undertone of “I’m more spiritually advanced than you, and therefore better”. It’s frustrating to see. I don’t know, it just puts kind of a sick feeling in my stomach, because— of course, in the world we live in, naturally there are going to be people aggrandizing an image to gain notoriety, and people following something because it is trending, etc. But it just seems almost blasphemous to pollute the purest of concepts, the whole of life, for god’s sake— with something like reputation/ being perceived a certain way. It completely contradicts itself. I am just streamin’ consciousness right now though, hope this makes some kind of sense