"Radical Monogamy in the Field of Erotic Mystics" 😂, Burning Man & Other Faux Spirituality
A petri dish for actual awakening...or so we pray
Houston. We have a problem. Or as I love to say… an opportunity for expansion!
This week on the “Spiritual Internet” everyone is talking about:
We have an epidemic of Spiritual Materialism, radical misunderstanding of and misuse of spiritual law and rampant follower syndrome out there in the "spiritual community". AND it is an excellent breeding ground for people to develop deeper inner knowing and discernment 😂.
This week the internet exploded in outrage over Aubrey Marcus announcing he is Poly (but not really) because they are "committed" and that a spirit he assumes was ISIS told him to impregnate both the women he is fucking.
This was my comment….
On one hand. Who the fuck cares.
On the other hand, what the ever loving fuck and how did we get here?
SPIRITUALITY IS NOT A SCENE
We got here when spirituality became a scene and "popular". From what I can tell Austin Texas (aside from Bali and Tulum) has become a “hotbed” for performative spiritual identities.
A bunch of people rejecting regular life to spiritualize fringe living and creating a sense of superiority and weird performative ways of behaving adding custom spiritual garb to show others they are "spiritual" and part of this clique.
As someone who is on a path and teaches but has ZERO and mean ZERO interaction with any kind of SCENE I can tell you that it consistently baffles me to watch people not understand what spirituality is. It is not going to burning man, it is not ketamine, it is not wearing leotards and fluffy coats with a bindi, It is not bingeing on "Mama Aya", mushrooms, cambo or whatever you are replacing your cocaine and ecstasy with.
It is not wearing outfits or hats or your instagram that “match” the spiritual "scene" it is not saging your home (are you still actually doing that??) or having a 5 hour morning practice. It is not living a sheltered life where you never feel triggered. It isn't processing with everyone in your circle about basic shit that “triggers” you in gentle parenting voice.
Those of us who were dragged by the hair onto the path will wait and watch for you to wake up and realize you have not even begun to scratch the surface of what it means to be on a spiritual path. Hint. It isn't hedonism. It isn't burning man. And it most definitely isn't rewriting spiritual law to serve your identity. But we also know that this is all part of the process. Like a teenager experimenting and going to keggers and getting fucked up realizing that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea.
COMMUNITY V SCENE
We need community to wake up. It's part of the mirror. But if we try to become what we see instead of using what we see to see ourselves then we are simply chasing an idea of an ideal.
I have come to determine that there are two kinds of communities.
Community that colludes, comisserates, and becomes a group performance where people are externally oriented, emulating and mimicking for belonging. As someone with a community I can tell you that it is so hard to weed this out. Even if you do everything to prevent this, it’s near impossible.
There is a stage of spiritual development where this simply is. This is a stage where people are responsible for themselves but haven't stepped into the ownership of that yet. See example 👇🏼
True community is a group of sovereign beings who all have the agency and the ability to choose to come together to exist and create without abandoning themselves. What a fucking dream. One day.
Collectivism - this is like a group think pain body that is driven by survival and wipes out individuation for the "Greater good". The “spiritual community” is RIFE with these people right now.
MY TRUTH v The TRUTH
I have been talking about this for years and unfortunately it's like tuning to a radio station and if you haven't heard it yet you have no reference point.
Truth is a FREQUENCY. You can FEEL it.
With the exception that the things that FEEL like Truth that aren't are Trauma and Addiction.
Whenever you hear "My Truth" it is usually one of these. And that is ok, but let’s admit what it is.
THE TRUTH simply is.
It isn't up to us, doesn't need our participation, interpretation or defense.
It's a current that operates whether we like it or not.
People can have different EXPERIENCES of Truth yes.
But Truth is not a personal experience.
When you begin to learn energetic law you can tune into this system and then test it in your own experience.
DIVINE UNION IS A UNIVERSAL LAW
Please note: You can do whatever you want, there is FREE WILL.
But Divine Union - the coming together of the Masculine and Feminine energetics to create a balanced, harmonic, sealed WHOLE - is simply Universal Law.
You can create whatever nonsensical explanation you want to try to argue with this and none of it will trump the simple isness of it.
G-d is ONENESS and therefore the WHOLE is a threat to forces that seek separation
This is not up for reinterpretation. It just IS. You are entitled to disagree. And that changes nothing.
If you have come to "spirituality" because you think it is cool or you think cool people are spiritual and you want to play dress up and create a false identity to fit in to what you think is "spiritual", you will be in for a very rude awakening.
You will also be in for a rude awakening if you pedestalize leaders or teachers or think that grown adults are not responsible for themselves and their choices.
You should not be looking at the "influence" you should be looking at why you are "influenced".
And when you are "influenced" understand the beautiful lesson in waking up from that. Everything we are attracted to has a resonant frequency to something within us.
Want more of my thoughts on this? 👇🏼
This is a great post I wrote previously on "What is Spirituality?"
Well said, thank you 🦋
Awesome piece.. glad someone is telling it like it is 😌