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The first email came through last week pitching an advanced energy healer.

The title proves my point. You can no longer just be an energy healer in this market.

You have to be above the fray which is why advanced is being used as an adjective.

And the pitch is for someone who I've never heard of and has a very small social media presence which

I'm guessing is being framed in such a way to suggest that their advancement has been done in private

and they are now sharing their goods. And to be honest that's possible. Many years ago I took a meditation

workshop with Sally Kempton which I enjoyed very much and still affects my views on meditation to

this day. Sally had emerged from the ashram she lived in for nearly 30 years to take her teaching

public although to be fair she had been teaching while at the ashram. Point being sometimes people

cultivate their practice for years or even decades before affixing the label advanced to themselves.

Though I also believe that truly advanced teachers would never call themselves that.

And Sally keeps it simple. She teaches meditation but that won't cut it in the digital space

where you have to offer a variety of practices that are seemingly building upon themselves whether or

not their coherence actually makes sense. So while this biting influencers main pitch is

Kundalini activation process and psychedelics there's also raky channeled oracle readings

yoni steemings health coaching and more. According to the publicist this influencer quote specializes

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