Copycat or Original Thinker

 

Are you copycatting Michael A. Singer? Is anything you share original?

That question came to my attention recently and it really made me think. Grateful for it.

It is true that I feel very connected to what Michael Singer has to say. I felt, for example, very connected to the teaching found in today's podcast: Allowing Life to Remove Your Blockages.  I always feel so in tune with his sharing.There are certain times I hear his message and it especially resonates with everything I "know" somehow to be true...the same things I have been sharing with others for years. It is almost like we sat down and collaborated before today's podcastlol.

I know...most people would say, "Well crazy lady, you certainly didn't collaborate with someone who sold over a million copies. You must have gotten all this stuff you write here from him.  He is the famous one. You are the copy cat, aren't you?" 

As for copycatting

Hmm...I hope not.  It is not my intention to copy anyone or take their work as my own.  I have too much integrity for that both in the lower and deeper motivations of this human I call "me". Though I so often share the teachings found in "his" podasts and books because they are wonderful, I cite what comes from him and what comes from others. If I am inspired by a podcast or reading in anyway, I always include the linked podcast below even if no citation was needed. 

Truth is, what he shares is something this "me" was already discovering through yoga and the study of other ancient wisdom traditions long before I knew of his existence. When I discovered "untethered soul", however, it was like a wonderful catalyst that took me farther along on my journey. I will always be grateful for that. I love the succint, contemporary, and pratical way he applies yoga to everyday Life.  I like to do the same. 

So, though he is probably the citation and reference you will see the most on these pages; though I feel so connected to the teaching he shares and the way he shares it that I listen every morning; and though I have so many "aha" moments listening...I am not copying him.  It isn't just my self preserving writer's ego saying that either.  

As for original thought

Aha moments are a remembering of what we always knew at the deepest level, not a learning of something new. Singer cued some of that remembering in me. I am so grateful. The wisdom he shares in his teachings, though, are not original...they come from the ancient wisdom of yoga and other traditions, just as mine do. (If I dare call what I share here: "teachings.") The deeper part of me knows that this wisdom he and I coincidentally share are universally a part of who we all are. It is already in each and every one of us. Most of the time it is dormant and asleep. We are not aware of it. That is,  until someone or something comes a long to cue us to "remember".  He helped me to remember so much more than I was remembering prior to reading, "untethered soul". I do appreciate and respect him for doing that.

Still, I am grandiose enough to think I am actually collaborating with him in some bizarre, unseen way.  I believe everyone who experiences an "aha" moment after tapping into this ancient wisdom in whatever form it presents itself begins to collaborate with the universe, in some kooky way, to get it out there. Sounds silly and delusional of this "me", maybe, to say that but that is what I believe.

So, the answer to both the above questions is "No".  No,  I don't think I am copycatting Michael Singer.  And no, I have no original thought...none of us do.

All is well.