bliss ninny

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Noun

bliss ninny (plural bliss ninnies)

1. (slang, derogatory) A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand.
2. (slang, spirituality) A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained.
   • 1987, New Realities, volumes 8-9, page 44:

     If you don't extend the circuitry, chances are you are going to be blown out, or even become a "bliss ninny." It's very easy to fall into bliss; we are only a fraction of a psychic centimeter away from it all the time.

References

• (spirituality) Course in Miracles, Question 646
• (spirituality) Course in Miracles, Interview