We are arriving at a point in time where spiritual gurus and teachers who flaunt their, “all about love” strategy for the awakening of self, will no longer be able to hide behind masks of nuanced esotericism. The counterfactual guru, the one who bathes in infinite light, swimming in the raw verbiage of their own transcendental poetry, will drift downstream, away from the depth, struggles, and awkwardness that is the human experience. The followers will stare as their master becomes so “go-with-the-flow” oriented that he/she drifts directly into what we call positive passivism. Positive passivism is when you become so deeply detached from reality that you no longer honor, potentially the most important spiritual principle, discernment/critical thinking.

Some of the students will follow their leader into a haze of naivete, while others will begin to poke and prod at the very elements that proliferated this person into power to begin with. It could become a, “What is my spiritual guru doing next to Jeffrey Epstein” moment (slightly satire).

We, as a collective, have lost connection to the fine art of spiritual skepticism. Spirituality is embodying all aspects of the self, including the animalistic instinct that is not afraid to hiss, roar, and scream when its very nature, freedom, or children (especially children) are threatened. The 90’s and early 2,000’s brought us waves of spiritual passivism, illustrating and promoting teachers who use light, love, and happiness as beacons of ultimate truth, while neglecting the individual shadow that each one of us came here to integrate, heal, and observe. This leads to a sort of disconnect, where light-hearted teachings put towards the realm of love are so out of proportion to the human shadow, that the teachers and their students dissociate from the human experience entirely.

Have you ever dissociated before? If you have ever dealt with chronic dissociation, you have probably felt a level of discomfort arise when entering into a dissociative spell. This is because repeatedly dissociating, even in attempt to marry God, is not organic to the human being. We came here to explore human sentience, not to cut ourselves off from it. A collective grouping of people who have chronically dissociated from the pure impulse, instinct, and existence of their own human nature creates an incredibly vulnerable, and dangerous setting.

The spiritual teachers I look to carry discernment as a leading principle, a guiding force and protector of their initiated esoteric wisdom. They honor my instinct and hold space for me to disagree with them, to walk to the beat of my own drum. They never intend to sculpt my mind to fulfill their egoic need for unstable emotional gratification, as that is tended to in the realm of their own shadow work, not between the relationship we carry. I will also add, I know and interact with them personally, removing the overrated starstruck haze that can serve as a distraction to the process of genuine teaching and alignment.

The integrated spiritual teacher inspires you to think for yourself, to be your own conduit/channel to divine understanding. Revel in your own truth, and all that is holy will join you, while all that is ill-intentioned will gently fall away.~