A few years ago I had a student who came to me for three years for private lessons (being a terribly successful psychotherapist he couldn't consider gracing my public classes). He was very bright and quite talented, which he traded on, never once practising (but people don't anymore so nothing new there). When he finally decided to stop, which I was quite relieved about (he eventually revealed himself to be a rather smug bore) I asked him why. "Oh you're on a warrior path, but I'm on a Consciousness Path." He meant it as a put-down but I took it as a compliment. For me that whole consciousness trip, from Mindfulness to Prosperity Consciousness, is reactionary bourgeois nonsense. Spiritual materialism at its very worst.