{"id":706,"date":"2024-03-20T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/?page_id=706"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:34:36","slug":"is-this-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/is-this-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Goodbye?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707\" style=\"width:399px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png 598w, https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This website is the 3rd or 4th one I started to talk about spirituality. I shut down each of the previous because of various forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/spiritual-imposter-syndrome\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"644\">spiritual imposter syndrome<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was so sure I was going to stick with this one&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like a spiritual fraud again. A job loss and some related issues have got me feeling (yet again!): <em>I am not enlightened myself, who am I to give advice to others??<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the answer is. As I said in the Why do <a href=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/why-do-gurus-have-so-many-scandals\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"667\">Gurus have so many scandals <\/a>post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>While spiritual people like me are scared of putting ourselves out there because <em>Boohoo I\u2019m not good enough yet <\/em>there are certain people, mainly narcissistic types, who have no problem shouting loudly how enlightened they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which leads to a situation that the people talking most loudly about spirituality are the least qualified to talk about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I also feel, and have always said, that we should fix our own shit before trying to help others. Put on your own oxygen mask before helping others, as they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\" style=\"width:424px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png 603w, https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I am temporarily stepping back from this. The site will still remain online, but I won&#8217;t be updating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you found any of the articles useful, you have my gratitude!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is the 3rd or 4th one I started to talk about spirituality. I shut down each of the previous because of various forms of spiritual imposter syndrome. I was so sure I was going to stick with this one&#8230; but&#8230; I feel like a spiritual fraud again. A job loss and some related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shant.nu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}