mistakes were made

Things that spiritual teachers have told me were true or insinuated were true that I believed at some time but now feel fairly confident are false (besides some of the wild metaphysical stuff):

• Rational thought and critical analysis are a dead end

• Politics is always a distraction

• People who have cultivated a certain degree of spiritual freedom will become more physically attractive in alignment with dominant western beauty standards and will be able to support themselves relatively easily in a modern economy

• It is good and right for spiritual teachers themselves to not want to get regular jobs but still expect to lead an upper middle class lifestyle 

• What is most real is happening on a different plane of existence or within a different consciousness, so reasons that seem weak in a "worldly" context are actually quite strong and even enlightened in a cosmic context

• A lot of freedom can be found in just doing what you are told