[mosseater]

Even as an extremely spiritual person into esoteric and occult things, I found this a little heavy handed. And like, I believe in God and follow Buddhist trains of thought. Which is what you seem to be doing too.

You shouldn't talk about miracles/siddhis, and especially shouldn't act as if they are gifts or something to attain. They are not the goal. They will delude you and lead you off the path with their intoxication. You are flaunting having the ability to perform ridiculous things, and saying you are basically chosen from God (given gifts, same thing). You say these things, to normal people, on hacker news, with no proof. For what gain? Your own ego? Given the context, it seems like you are using God to support some sort of narcissistic ego problem.

And like, This is coming from someone who believes in the subject matter you are into. What use is this article to the average reader here? You are making the entire occult scene look bad.