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New age psychology has it's purpose...but I think
the alternative path variants on purpose fairy are essentially emotional pleasure lessons.

That old story of thinking that the grabbing of the tail of a snake, instead of its head, is probably safe because you didn't immediately get bit, comes to mind.

Good evening, pedantic and irritating Moderator here. Actually, grabbing a snake by the tail isn't all that bad an idea, providing you can keep the head off the ground...

Ok, I'm done.

The Buddha only concerned himself with teachings that pointed a way along a path heading towards suffering's cessation, not to the endless other path variants offered by the whole worlds dreamscape. A spiritual awakening is simply discerning the difference between those two. An wide and open mind/heart is capable of seeing a reflection of that truth in almost anything.

Perhaps a more interesting question to ponder here is to ask oneself just how tired do we actually need to become of our own suffering, to end up prioritizing a direction for ourselves down a relatively difficult Buddhist path over a plethora of other worldly, more dream friendly path options.