Spiritual bypassing is a very persistent shadow of spirituality, manifesting in many forms, often without being acknowledged.
– R. Augustus
What comes to mind when you think of ‘spirituality’?
You might picture beautiful temples, ethereal instruments, golden Buddhas, gardens and forests of paradise, the faces of enlightened masters, angels, mountain ranges, sunsets, or any number of other dazzling images.
We tend to associate spiritual awakening with transcendental and heightened states of being that are invariably associated with feelings of happiness, joy, deep inner peace, and contentment.
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While all of this is true and wonderful, many of us become intoxicated, distracted, and ensnared by these highly attractive images of spirituality, avoiding the darker, painful, and more demanding sides of such a path.
At its core, spiritual bypassing is like any other form of avoidance that rewards us with a false feeling of security and happiness, while undermining the deeper path of spiritual integration, transformation, and Oneness.
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Spiritual Bypassing: An Enticing Form of Escapism
What you resist, persists.
– C. G. Jung
For a long time, I struggled with understanding what ‘true’ spirituality looked and felt like.
I would look in the newspapers and find ads from kooky-looking psychic women promoting their services, all the way to alluring internet courses dedicated to “ascending to the 5D.”
I would read new age books about “optimism” and esoteric articles about casting spells to attract love and prosperity. I’d devour videos and purchase materials on the latest spiritual techniques or newly discovered “ancient practices” purported to “change my life.”
But amidst all of this searching, I somehow never felt a connection with any of these findings. All of these ideas and practices somehow felt amiss: something, somehow, seemed intuitively off-center and “wrong” about them.
I’ve finally discovered why I’ve always felt this way about so many spiritual practices in the past few years. All of these practices had felt so “off” to me because many of them, instead of being authentically spiritual, were actually forms of spiritual bypassing.
The term ‘spiritual bypassing’ was originally coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1984. As he explained in an interview,
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Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself. Although most of us were sincerely trying to work on ourselves, I noticed a widespread tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.
As we can see, spiritual bypassing is largely about avoiding or trying to escape from the more tricky parts of life. This understanding leads us to form a clear definition of spiritual bypassing:
What is Spiritual Bypassing? (Definition)
To spiritually bypass is to use spirituality to avoid, suppress, or escape from uncomfortable issues or areas within life.
These issues could be the loss of a loved one, a relationship breakup, family problems, childhood abuse, loneliness, low self-esteem, self-sabotaging behaviors, fear, mental or emotional health issues, or any other problems life presents.
Examples of areas that can be bypassed include avoiding psychological healing of unhealthy attachment styles, environmental issues, topics of inequality (class, race, gender, sexuality, etc.), and so on.
To many people, spirituality becomes a sort of crutch used to help them stand back up again in the face of life’s turmoil – and often, this is necessary. We all need support at one time or another in our lives.
However, the problem comes when spirituality is used as a drug on which we become dependent to bypass the darker or more complex elements of our lives.
When spirituality is used as a defense mechanism to ward off the gremlins and demons of our existence, it actually becomes our greatest hindrance, preventing us from developing true courage, authenticity, and compassion; qualities that refine our souls.
While the use of spirituality can provide us with a solid wall to hide behind, in doing so it traps us in an all-is-blissful-and-perfect jail cell of illusions.
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10 Types of Spiritual Bypassing
What gives light must endure burning.
– V. Frankl (Man’s Search For Meaning)
The reality is that not everything in life is ‘love and light,’ as is the slogan for many spiritual seekers.
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Pursuing the Light and living an enlightened and deeply interconnected existence is also about setting yourself on fire.
True spirituality is about creating an inferno of your false beliefs, illusions, desires, ideals, and prejudices. It’s about surrendering to the destruction of every limiting thing you ever thought and felt about yourself, other people, and the world, aka. ego death.
Spirituality is not always pretty. In fact, often, it’s the most shattering, tumultuous, and testing experience we can go through in life.
But only once we emerge from the embers of our destruction can we be reborn – like phoenixes – into new lives of clarity and peace.
The truth is that there are many types of spiritual bypassing that we sometimes don’t recognize (or refuse to recognize) in life. I have listed ten of the most common types below:
I) The Optimistic Bypass
We’ve all come across people in life who love to laugh and smile, yet seem to be forcefully optimistic. “Focus on the positive!” “See the glass as half full!” “Don’t let a frown get you down!” are some of the catchcries of these people who tend to use optimism as a way of avoiding the more sinister and troublesome realities of life. The optimistic bypass is often a side product of anger-phobia or else the inability to deal with negative emotions as a whole.
II) The Aggrandizement Bypass
The aggrandizement bypass is adopted by those who seek to feel enlightened, superior, or somehow “more awakened” in their spiritual development than others. Claiming to have reached a certain spiritual coveted milestone is a type of self-delusion that some spiritual seekers use as a way of masking their perceived deficiencies and insecurities (learn more about ‘Makyo‘). More commonly, this bypass is typically used by self-proclaimed masters, spiritual leaders, “kundalini awakened” yogis, and gurus to solicit a following (and make some good money!).
III) The Victim Bypass
When one becomes a victim of their gifts, or of other people, this takes away the pressure of responsibility for shaping a satisfying life and taking responsibility for one’s happiness – such is the case with the Victim Bypass. This type of spiritual bypass is often used by spiritual seekers who believe they have extrasensory gifts of some kind, but due to their gifts, they are unable to feel happy or healthy.
Identifying as an empath, for example, is sometimes a good example of this type of bypassing. As being an empath is a gift that’s all about sensing others’ emotions, this can be used as an excuse to behave in self-pitying, self-destructive, and volatile ways.
Other labels, like being a clairvoyant, an indigo child, a starseed, gifted healer, and so on, can often cause people to fall into the Victim Bypass trap.
IV) The Psychonaut Bypass
Many spiritual seekers explore the frontiers of the mind, the soul, and reality through the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, DMT, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and other entheogens that expand consciousness. While psychoactive substances are a fascinating way of exploring reality, like any other drug, they can often be used to escape daily life and avoid committing to personal development and Soul Work.
V) The Horoscope Bypass
When we frequently look outside of ourselves for help and guidance, as in the case with horoscopes and psychics, we’re failing to tap into our inner wellsprings of wisdom and strength and are allowing external predictions to control the outcome of our lives. The Horoscope Bypass is typically derived from fear and mistrust of ourselves, fear of taking self-responsibility for our decisions, and resistance to flowing with life by trying to predict “what’s going to happen.”
VI) The Saint Bypass
As children, many of us were conditioned to believe that a “spiritual person” is always kind, compassionate, and saintly. In adulthood, many of us continue to repeat this story to ourselves, and sadly, it can create tremendous suffering.
The Saint Bypass is a reflection of extreme “black or white” thinking, promoting the underlying belief that spiritual people can’t have dark sides because that would make them “unspiritual.” This type of spiritual bypass is essentially avoidance of one’s Shadow Self (dark side) by overcompensating with the guise of a sweet and heavenly exterior. The martyr complex is a major symptom of this type of bypassing.
VII) The Spirit Guide Bypass
In some spiritual traditions, it’s a God who protects, in others, it’s an angel, animal, or an ascended being who takes care of us.
While at certain points in life it’s helpful, soothing, and supportive to feel ourselves taken care of by a spirit guide, we can’t let it become too much of a crutch.
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Relying 100% on our spirit guide/s to give us all of our insight, all of our protection, and all our spiritual sustenance keeps us in a spiritually infantile state. In other words, we fail to develop strength of spiritual character.
Spirit guides serve to teach us rather than to babysit us.
VIII) The Prayer Bypass
Similar to the Spirit Guide Bypass, the Prayer Bypass circumvents personal responsibility by putting faith in a higher being to solve all of our problems and issues. While praying can be a healthy practice, it can easily become limiting and misguided. Sinking too much into passivity is an imbalanced way to live life and can easily lead to disaster. We must learn to take action and trust our own instincts as well.
IX) The Guru Bypass
Often it is beneficial to follow a guru, shaman, or spiritual teacher to learn and grow. However, becoming too attached to such people can rapidly turn into another form of spiritual bypassing.
The temptation to begin worshiping (knowingly or unknowingly) spiritual teachers means that we eventually forget the purpose of listening to them, i.e., to integrate the essence of their teachings.
By treating the words of a guru or master as the irrefutable truth and failing to think for ourselves, we fall into cult-like groupthink, and we’re starved of true spiritual growth and transformation on our spiritual journeys.
X) The Finger-Pointing Bypass
At some point on our spiritual quests, we begin to see through the lies, delusions, and crazy behaviors committed by our fellow human beings and this can make us angry, downhearted, and frustrated.
However, when we get caught up in “everything that is wrong” with the outside world and other people, dedicating our lives to the self-righteous quest of finger-pointing, this can be another form of spiritual bypassing.
Finger-pointing instills us with a false sense of righteousness, taking away the responsibility of looking inside and working on ourselves.
At its roots, the Finger-Pointing bypass is sourced in egocentric separation and fearful avoidance of our own shadows.
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I’m sure there are many other forms of spiritual bypassing out there. But, at the very least, the above ten forms are the most common bypasses that we can easily observe around and within us.
How to Stop Spiritual Bypassing
Without deep and honest self-acceptance, the spiritual life rests on a dangerous psychological foundation and is nothing more than escape into a world of illusion. Humble self-knowledge is the most basic condition for any true spirituality.
– John Monbourquette
The spiritual bypass is slippery, conniving, and is often disguised in robes of light.
It can take a lot of ruthless self-honesty – or what is known as spiritual discernment – to see through the lies we’ve been conditioned to believe or have told ourselves. But, rest assured, favoring the truth will help us greatly in the longterm.
So how do we stop spiritual bypassing? Here are some methods you might like to use:
1. Cultivate an open-minded attitude
Before uncovering any forms of spiritual bypassing that have wheedled their way into your life, you need to be open. You need to be willing to be wrong, misguided, or totally off the mark. Without that willingness to be open-minded, you’ll be fooling yourself. There will be no point in even trying to call yourself out because you’ll be shooting yourself in the foot before even beginning!
Therefore, strive to cultivate an open-minded attitude of humility. Remind yourself that it’s okay to be imperfect (we all are!). Most spiritual seekers – in fact, I’d dare say ALL seekers – go wrong at some point. And that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Embrace your flawed humanity and take steps toward greater spiritual expansion.
2. Examine the light and dark side of what you do
There’s a light and dark side to everything. Even if you struggle to find out what’s wrong with the spiritual activities or commitments you’re dedicated to right now, create hypothetical scenarios.
For example, if you follow a spiritual teacher that you love and adore, create a hypothetical scenario where that teacher betrays your trust or does something against your ethics. What then?
Ask yourself questions such as:
- “What could go wrong here?”
- “What aren’t I seeing?”
- “What’s the other side of this?”
- “In the past, how has this hurt someone?”
- “What warnings do people give about this activity?”
- “Is this hurting me in some way?”
- “Is this harming others in some way?”
- “How is this making me weak or dependant?”
- “Is there an opportunity for me to be taken advantage of here?”
Listening to your doubt is intelligent. Blind faith creates sheep, not a self-sovereign wolf. Dare to look at both sides of life. Honor the yin and yang of existence. Embrace the energy of both Shiva (the destroyer) and Shakti (the creator) within you.
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3. Dare to face your cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance (CD) is a state of being where a person’s beliefs and behaviors don’t align.
CD generally happens to people who hold two contradictory beliefs and have a sophisticated spiritual ego. The result of CD is a sense of underlying uneasiness, anxiety, guilt, and like “something isn’t quite right.”
Those who carry a lot of cognitive dissonance tend to “explain away” their behavior (or that of others) and live in denial. Facing the truth is too painful, so reality is avoided, and a false reality is created instead.
CD often happens to members of cults, but can also occur in the general spiritual community. For example, a person might experience CD when they follow the principle of non-harming (Ahisma) but hit their children every time they get angry.
Other examples of CD include following a narcissistic spiritual teacher who says one thing and does the other, claiming to be a healer with special abilities but on some level knowing that it’s a pretense (and placebo), following a non-dual philosophy but being dogmatic about it, and so on.
Facing CD involves doing shadow work and examining places and behaviors in your life that don’t add up. This practice isn’t about shaming yourself or being “more perfect,” but being honest and clearing away any self-delusion.
4. Ask others for their honest opinions
If you have any close friends or family members (who you have a healthy and respectful relationship with), talk to them about your spiritual path. Ask them if they have noticed any spiritual bypassing tendencies within you. If they don’t understand what spirtual bypassing is, show them this article or explain it to them!
Then, once your trusted friend or family member is ready, consciously brace yourself (and your ego) by taking a slow, soft, deep breath for their response. If at any point you feel overwhelmed with an emotion like anger or defensiveness, thank them and tell them that you need a minute or two to process what they’ve told you.
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$3Feedback from other people (who genuinely care about our wellbeing) is invaluable. But make sure it’s from people you trust. Don’t go asking someone you have a complicated connection with to divulge your spiritual bypassing tendencies. Likely, they’ll use it as an opportunity to hurt you in a backhanded way.
If you don’t have anyone you trust, you could try a trained spiritual counselor who’s familiar with spiritual bypassing or even an online group of kindred spirits whom you trust.
5. Face and feel your pain
Why does spiritual bypassing occur? The answer is that it helps us to avoid facing painful emotions such as grief, shame, rage, hatred, and terror.
Everyone wants to enjoy a sparkly spiritual high (that is ultimately short-lived) but no one wants to do the hard work of facing inner pain (that actually leads to longlasting joy, fulfillment, and peace).
Facing and feeling your pain is not simple. You’ll most likely require the help of a spiritual counselor or therapist – and ideally, they will be trauma-informed, as repressed pain stems from unresolved trauma.
Facing one’s pain is not a fun prospect for most people, hence why they avoid this work and keep using their spiritual bandaids. But the fact still remains: the pain needs to be dealt with sooner or later.
Practices that can help you face and feel your pain might include breathwork, bodywork (like yoga), spiritual meditation, mindfulness, keeping a journal, art therapy, expressive dancing, catharsis, inner child work, and many other creative or embodied practices.
Final Words
Spiritual bypassing is a topic that I believe every book, course, website, teacher, and guru should incorporate into their methodology, without exception.
To think that spirituality is without its dark side is not only totally naive, but unequivocably dangerous. We absolutely need to practice spiritual discernment and recognize where we might be wrong or misaligned – and to do that, we need to face our pain and shadows.
In the words of psychologist and author Elaine N. Aron:
Real redemption or enlightenment, as much as it can be achieved in this world, comes through hard work that does not skirt tough personal issues.
It can be a deeply unsettling, even terrifying experience to tear down the veneer of illusion from our lives and stare into the face of truth.
But the spiritual path is a process of destruction and purification; it requires you to set afire all hidden illusions and falsities so that you can experience the liberating joy of awakening to your True Nature.
Tell me, what has your experience been like with spiritual bypassing? I’d love to hear any thoughts, feelings, or stories you have below.
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This is awesome. I believe number 2 may be an issue for me (but I’m working on it).
I have seen some of what you’ve mentioned in others.
I’ve sensed some of these before but couldn’t quite define them.
Greetings. I read this article with great interest. Recently, I was reading a very well respected spiritual teacher’s book and there was language to the effect that your consciousness determines how nutritious food that you eat is. I felt this was a fallacy, and brought it up to discuss in the class I am taking (the book was assigned reading). When I asked, “So you’re saying you can pray over french fries and they will be as nutritious as broccoli?” the group replied that yes, food is as healthy or unhealthy as you believe it to be. I am thinking that this is a form of spiritual bypass to avoid taking the responsibility of eating in a healthy way (I happen to be vegan for spiritual, health, and environmental reasons). Thoughts?
Monica, I have to be blunt, but the belief that these people are propagating is absolutely ridiculous. This brings to mind what Hindu saint Sri Aurobindo once said, “Why is it that when people begin to relinquish the world, the first thing they relinquish is common sense?” I would challenge these people to tell a morbidly obese and diabetic man on the brink of death to start “believing” that the liter of soda and triple stacked cheeseburger he eats for breakfast is nutritious … then see what happens. This whole believing-the-world-into-being is the precise definition of wishful thinking.
Thank you, Aletheia! I actually had a stronger term for it than wishful thinking. Thank you for sharing your perspective. The conversation going forward is going to get even more interesting, indeed. Maybe I will drop the class.
I have done and have seen spiritual bypass in others and I am so grateful for the experiences. I think being curious about the self is helpful in breaking through these limits to bring balance can help. Enjoy health, enjoy food, be kind and respectful to yourself while extending this to others in your heart and mind brings acceptance and contentment to my life. I love the natural world and how it teaches me to be alive and how to live among others in this world. It’s always changing.
Hello Altheia Luna, I have done and still do many of these “spiritual bypasses,” you outline in this article. After everything you listed it seems there is really no path to go. One is either TOO spiritual, positive, optimistic or negative, pessimistic and passive about their spirituality. I was led to my path through the development of a mental illness. Initially, my goal was to be healed and move on. The longer I have lived like this the more Passionate O get about finding a cure and helping to heal others. The spiritual life is definitely a double-edged sword. Isolation, loss and fear are just as much a part of it as happiness, love and light. Im wondering, with your all-encompassing outline of “Spiritual Bypassing,” how can one find the line between seeking truth or creating a crutch?
P.S. Please don’t take the quotations as disrespect. I’m struggling to accept the idea. If this is true… what have I been doing for the last 7 years?!?
Good Article!!! I fall into some of these probably more often than I would like to admit!
Not everyone can admit it though, so that’s admirable!
Dear Luan and all other readers,
I have a situation which is related to this topic. I encountered a psychic who said can cast love spell to help the reunion of me and my ex boyfriend. I first paid her 450 USD and now i was asked to pay another 5200 USD for the purchase of a big piece of candle to heal my ex boyfriend so he will be back. I have doubt this time because i feel the pressure from her for sending the money. She send me a pic of the candle which i found out is an art piece of an artist in 2006. It is obvious, right? but my mind still came up with excuse from time to time telling me it may be true. I am confused because i am so afraid what if it is true. What if i have ruined the chance of our reunion.
I was reminded by this articles and want to look inside to see what is happening. I meditated on this for a few days, it is still very unclear but the feeling of not doing it is stronger.
Another obstacles that i has was it is hard for me to believe people are doing these things in an unethical way. So I do not think i should be skeptical.
So How should we draw the line between the two side, having faith VS being not wise?
Hi Ada, apologies for the late response.
There is nothing wrong with being skeptical. Ironically, another form of spiritual bypassing is to deny the darkness in other people and to coat everyone in a glean of white pearly armor, as though everyone had good intentions all the time. You and I both know deep down that this is not the case, and it sounds like this psychic is preying on your emotional vulnerability. $5,200 USD for a big piece of candle is, to put it lightly, a scam. The only person who can truly bring about any change in your life is not a candle, not a psychic, but it is you. If your ex-boyfriend is meant to return back into your life, he will, but otherwise, appreciate the time you had with him and the lessons you learned.
Have faith in yourself. There is no division between faith and wisdom.
x
Deeply complicated issue.
These spiritual bypassing issues are really philosophical fallacies and ones that for sure shouldn’t be ignored but rightly apt for critical thinking in general. But I feel when conceptuality and language wraps itself tight enough around its many illusions, then what? Where do we find ourselves? And that to me is the difficulty of any practice. When the reflective process becomes infinitely regressive, can and does the self “do” anything else? I wonder, after we go in and look at the self and then go out and view our surroundings, at what point (if any) does recognition of their colliding occur — that is, namely, the active process of subject/object individuation/separation? Is it possible to ever fully KNOW who is doing this self analysis and where it is all coming from? From my view, I honestly can say I have no idea where ‘I’ begin anymore and so the idea of a “spiritual” practice seems moot.
Buddhists notoriously speak of this spiritual bypassing and currently view it (in all schools of thought, so it seems), as being a MAJOR issue in affluent societies. Scholars have written on a similar subject known as “spiritual consumerism” for decades now. The main residue of these issues seems to be, at what point are we ALWAYS spiritually bypassing because of the consumer culture we find ourselves in? We have, as privileged consumers, the option of saying ‘I like this idea, it makes me feel x,y,z.’ Or, ‘oh no, this doesn’t work for me anymore because of a,b,c,’ then the hunt begins again for that which satiates whatever it is that we are not wanting to experience again. In traditional societies, one could not as readily say, ‘fuck this’ and leave the group, they would likely die. So, in that, they were stuck practicing whatever was given to them through generations of knowledge. In a diluted simple sense, the “spiritual” path seems to me to be largely a free-for-all in conceptual terms now anyway given the proliferation of humans and life-ways. What seems to pass for a spiritual path, or is generally viewed as one around the word is when one’s actions and views are fueled by what we think of as light, love, peace, unity, oneness. compassion and so forth. Because these bliss feelings are ones we seek, these verbal placeholders equal no more suffering. So, as we walk around the planet why not proclaim with great vocals and hands raised that this is the fuel behind your burning?!
This is one of my favorite articles that you have written, Aletheia! I would say that I have practiced spiritual bypassing more than once and in several different ways. I really can’t think of any religion or institution that doesn’t encourage it on deep levels. I think it is good to be learning what downfalls we can fall into. It keeps us fresh. Thank you!
Spiritual bypassing is often a very uncomfortable subject for spiritual seekers, so it is refreshing for me to read your comment Deb, knowing that you are a fellow truth seeker! Thank YOU ;)
fancy words for stages in life….no one knows the absolute truth till we pass …and life had a way of pushing us along to each stage….no one ubove no one below
This paragraph is obviously anti-spirituality.. and I understand why.. it was probably written by a non-spiritual person. before talking about it you must understand the non-religious/christian spirituality which could be found by doing tummo.. some types of (spiritual) yoga.. or some spiritual/internal buddhist martial arts..
yes, spirituality shouldn’t be used as a defense mechanism since is a LIFESTYLE.. being spiritual is not a hobby, a passion or a defense mechanism.. it’s a lifestyle.. it’s a deeper side of our cerebral capacity..which not many are able of comprehending it.. the reality is not the one you see it with your eyes.. it’s the one you see it with the eyes of your infinite mind.. some may call it an “illusion”.. while others are considering it a good control over your brain.. if you’d ask me, the pain, fear, emotions, feelings.. are only illusions of our brains..
the meditation and the spirituality isn’t for extroverts. that’s for sure.. their brains aren’t evolved enough to understand the spirituality since the eyesight of their minds is extremely limited..
We are here on earth as homo sapiens, a primitive mammal species who isn’t able to use it’s whole cerebral capacity (at once).. yet. We came here to evolve.. Let’s run from our primitive past and embrace the evolution of our species.. Being Human it takes a lot more than we know..
Amen, sister! It’s the painful parts of life that bring our most growth. Our emotions are tools to help us rid ourselves of limiting beliefs. Don’t ignore them!
We are here on earth as humans. We came here to experience being human! Let’s not run from our humanity but embrace it, for the beautiful messy journey that it is.
Wise words Hedy! Thank you! <3
hmm.. this paragraph is obviously anti-spirituality.. and was probably written by a non-spiritual person. before talking about it you must understand the non-religious/christian spirituality which could be found by doing tummo.. some types of (spiritual) yoga.. or some spiritual/internal buddhist martial arts..
yes, spirituality shouldn’t be used as a defense mechanism since is a LIFESTYLE.. being spiritual is not a hobby, a passion or a defense mechanism.. it’s a lifestyle.. it’s a deeper side of our cerebral capacity..which not many are capable to comprehend it.. the reality is not the one you see it with you eyes.. it’s the one you see it with the eyes of your infinite mind.. some may call it an “illusion”.. while are considering it a good control over your brain.. the meditation and the spirituality isn’t for extroverts, that’s for sure.. they aren’t able to understand the spirituality since the eyesight of their minds is extremely limited..
We are here on earth as homo sapiens, a primitive mammal species who isn’t able to use it’s whole cerebral capacity (at once). We came here to evolve.. Let’s run from our primitive past/present and embrace the evolution of our species..
hmm.. this paragraph is obviously anti-spirituality.. and was probably written by a non-spiritual person. before talking about it you must understand the non-religious/christian spirituality which could be found by doing tummo.. some types of (spiritual) yoga.. or some spiritual/internal buddhist martial arts..
yes, spirituality shouldn’t be used as a defense mechanism since is a LIFESTYLE.. being spiritual is not a hobby, a passion or a defense mechanism.. it’s a lifestyle.. it’s a deeper side of our cerebral capacity..which not many are capable to comprehend it.. the reality is not the one you see it with your eyes.. it’s the one you see it with the eyes of your infinite mind.. some may call it an “illusion”.. while others are considering it a good control over your brain.. the meditation and the spirituality isn’t made for extroverts, that’s for sure.. they aren’t able to understand the spirituality since the eyesight of their minds is extremely limited..
We are here on earth as homo sapiens, a primitive mammal species who isn’t able to use it’s whole cerebral capacity (at once). We came here to evolve.. Let’s run from our primitive past&present and embrace the evolution of our species..
As with any group of people, there are many different types
of spiritual people with many different beliefs. I agree yoga, spiritual
martial arts, etc, are wonderful tools to help people understand there is more
to life than meets the eye. Personally I believe while they are wonderful
tools, too many spiritual gurus claim these to be the only way to
enlightenment. The truth us we all have all the answers within ourselves. We
just have to go deep, open our hearts and listen.
Our emotions are notes from our body, soul and the
Universe/Divine/One/whatever you call it, that we have a limiting belief that
is holding us back. If we allow ourselves to feel it and look deeper, we can
release it and increase our spiritual growth. It really is a beautiful process
that way too many spiritual gurus miss out on.
I agree that depending on where they are in the incarnation
cycle, some people may not be able to comprehend much of the information that
can be obtained from the higher realms.
But in this new paradigm, it is much easier for people to understand a
lot more, much quicker.
I have learned not to judge who will be able to see the
truth and who won’t. Especially since the truth is slightly different for every
single one of us. Or another way to see it is there is no one “truth”.
Being able to see the beauty of our humanness while honoring
and understanding our innate divinity is indeed a difficult concept to
comprehend. A duality very few of us, if any, will ever fully be able to
understand while embodied.
Namaste.
“The truth is we all have all the answers within ourselves. We
just have to go deep, open our hearts and listen.” :)
IntrovertedSpiritual. To me spirituality is a life choice, but other people might value it as a hobby, a passion, a side-project, or so forth, and they are free to do so. No matter how spirituality is valued or perceived, it can be used to limit one’s personal growth, and that was what this article was trying to reflect. I am not sure who you are referring to as being non-spiritual, but assumptions and judgements about other people are never wise. They create separation rather than unity.
Just as with anything in life, spirituality can be used for good or for bad.
Thanks for contributing.
“Let’s not run from our humanity but embrace it, for the beautiful messy journey that it is.”—> I love this, Hedy. I feel exactly the same about it and I completely agree with you. Thank you, Hedy.