major pitfall for “spiritual” types: the delusion that everybody should take one as seriously as one takes oneself.
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The number of ways in which trauma and spirituality are conflated is probably a result of trauma pushing people to spirituality to cope.
Curious: what do you mean by "won't own their own pain"? I feel I'm seeing this play out in some people, but not sure if it's the same thing.
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Right. So what you are talking about *in general* is the tendency people have to Other their pain when they have unresolved or ongoing trauma?
This prompting unhelpful "help" for others, lack of regard for those people's feelings (because they're putting their own there) etc.?
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That's fair. I'm only speaking to my own experience, on both sides of that problem.
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My impression is our concepts of what "waking up" entails are sometimes incompatible with our biology.
You aren't going to stop being human, so, uh...
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I once explained to someone that I'd had a few profound spiritual awakenings.
(I was, like, 18, so please don't hold it against me. :P)
The CRUSHING rebuttal was that I still got angry etc., so I couldn't possibly have experienced that.
No wonder so many sages are psychopaths.
People keep expecting their saints to be inhuman, and keep acting surprised when they get saints who are profoundly disturbed.