this is the kind of spirituality that leads to nobody's lives being better in any concrete way. power is a force for good and if your practice is worth anything at all it should be helping you cultivate the proper use of it
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"power" is a word it's worth being very careful with. if it isn't "spiritual" to cultivate power then only "unspiritual" people will have power
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also, meta note, i have strong and poorly thought-out opinions about "spirituality" and when i'm not entirely sober i will spew them; please don't take that to mean that i am claiming to be particularly "spiritually" advanced or developed or whatever
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i have a specific set of obsessions around narrative and storytelling and those obsessions apply to the stories people tell about "spirituality" like they do to many other stories
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i also really like to talk as if i know what i'm talking about; if you notice it getting particularly bad please make fun of me for it to snap me out of it
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I'd actually instead invite you to consider that if you took a bit more effort to be a little more precise about your claims, you would become more powerful as a consequence
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a lot of it would have to do with the sort of responses you'd invite
treat your thoughts as if they are powerful and consequential and they become more so, and people interact with them with more reverence, virtuous cycle
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of course you could just not post the contentious thought at all, or save it for a locked alt, but sometimes the whole point is you want to air the thought publicly to see what happens
I think it's worth taking the above precautions bc it raises the avg thoughtfulness of replies
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