When spiritual concepts collide with human experience
The other day I had a conversation with a friend about belief—what makes something digestible for the rational mind? We started with extraterrestrial entities, like Bashar, and moved through aliens, Christ Consciousness, and God. But soon, the conversation took a strange turn.
We fell into a kind of spiritual ego loop about the nature of self: “𝘐” 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵. 𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨? I agreed on one level. But at the same time, “I” had just enjoyed breakfast, and “I” was also trying to express something. Yet each time I spoke, I felt shut down by this very concept—like my experience had no space to exist.
And then “I” started feeling pain.
So I sat with it. 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯? 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵? But I knew better than to bypass it. Instead, I let it rise. I felt it fully while detaching from it. Not pushing it away, but also not becoming it.
And that’s when I saw her—the part of me that had felt unheard since childhood. The one who wasn’t taken seriously when speaking about things beyond the norm. The one who was made fun of, dismissed, interrupted. She had been waiting to be acknowledged.
So I held her. 𝘐—who doesn’t exist—held 𝘩𝘦𝘳, who also doesn’t exist. And yet, something real was happening. I felt the pain, honored it, and in doing so, transcended it.
Sometimes, spirituality can become another way to shut down expression, to invalidate the rawness of human experience. But true transcendence isn’t about denying pain; it’s about making space for it, without attachment, until it dissolves into peace.
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