naming

is your porn name spiritual? it is if you say so!

Veronica Danielle LaPorte Johnson. That’s my full name.
I've always been called Danielle, because apparently my mother couldn't bear the thought of someone shouting out "Hey Vickeeey!" to me. "Johnson" came with my man. In high school, while obsessed with Lynda Evans' should pads in Dynasty, I considered changing my name to something more swellegant like, Victoria DuBonnet. Glad that phase passed.


NAME CHANGERS
Did you know that Ram Dass is really Richard Alpern? The new age guru-ette, Gangaji is really Catherine, named by her guru Sri Ramana Maharshi. Hell, even Eckhart Tolle changed his name from Ulrich to Eckhart.

I'm all for declaring your own moniker. In fact, I think more people should have the kahunas to change their names if they don't feel an affinity with what they were given. Yet, when I hear a dreamy new age name, my antennae lean forward. Why'd you change your name? Who gave you that to you...and why'd you agree take it?

Can you be enlightened and just be called, like, Joe Smith? "Joe Smith...all-knowing sage and metaphysician." I like it.

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