I LOVE libraries I wish they still had them open more than a few days a week and longer than a few hours. I lived in them when I was a kid and yes I did have to be in bed before the street lights came on but I don't think I am exaggerating here on the contrast.
I view youtube videos and all documentaries the same as if I were sitting in an auditorium or a classroom or a boardroom where a presentation is being made to support a theory or cause. I usually stop watching 90% of them about 5 min but I try to give them all a fair chance and if they seem to have made a convincing argument I THEN go and research what they are using as facts and evidence. How do you weed through them all? I trust the ones they allow on mainstream tv much much less don't you?
Mellow, please understand that my difficulties getting Ganja man to communicate shouldn't be confused with a dismissal of the whole lightwork idea. I find the idea of wanting to focus one's energies into a serene and helpful space to be ... engaging, even beautiful.
As to the bolded, consider that TV has some editorial filters in place, while Youtube has none at all. that means that Youtube will have all manner of garbage that wouldn't even make it onto TV. Now, TV is rife with brain parasites like reality shows and pseudodocumentary shows on paranormal themes, and just between you and me, that's part of a greater disease. But the 'Tube is a mosh pit, a completely uncontrolled environment. I automatically mistrust a 'Tube video that claims to be documentary.
As for how do I weed through them, it comes back to a lifetime spent in libraries, which had a much lower proportion of outright nonsense than the visual media or the sensational press. (But I still found a book in the nonfiction section blithely recommending Immanuel Velikovsky's theories, which include such diverting imagery as planets
bouncing off each other in human prehistory!) What that did was give me a grounding in natural philosophy and in its history, including the means used to test an idea for goodness. I'll cut to the chase and tell you my four alert subjects:
aliens
magic
prophecy
conspiracy
It's my considered opinion that the interlocking sets of Tube vids out there describing these things are a pathogen, a meme. That word didn't originally mean a visual Net joke, but something bigger, more sinister: an idea that spreads itself "because it can", like any other disease or parasite. There are people pouring remarkably high production values into these vids which are designed to hook folks who do just what you say ... assume an auditorium "teach me" attitude. But I suspect the motives of the documentarians.
I feel about their products the exact same way you feel about GMOs and Big Pharma: they are immoral as hell and doing massive damage. Because they are designed to hook into our thought-processes and exploit our very human weakness for finding new patterns and meanings. make no mistake, mellow: I think the producers of vids on these four topics are evil. They are promoting corrosive ideas and legitimizing them using the Himmler method: repeat, repeat (and if challenged, don't explain, simply) repeat. They say they're promoting the ethereal, sublime, ascendant ... horsepoop. They are pandering to the human animal. With the same community spirit as ADM and Monsanto and DelMonte, and for the same reasons: personal aggrandizement.
I have nothing against the honest, careful pursuit of spiritual ideas. And I see real value and beauty in pursuing a Tao of gentleness. But this modern confabulation of prophecy and transformative events and razzledazzle and general escape from the dreariness of real actual gritty existence ... i think this is bad in a way that might really harm our species during the next century. Jmo. cn
<add> I see those ideologies to be the born enemy of real lightwork. Untruth is a deadly foundation for any way of life.