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xerxeswitch · 2 years

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What is “Spiritual” Narcissism?

(This is a repost from my other account)

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Now, again, these are my beliefs in what I thought helped me with my spiritual journey. Take these with a grain of salt.

What is bad about being a spiritual narcissist?

Being a spiritual narcissist defeats the purpose of spirituality itself, and it can create a very damning, dangerous situation for the person themselves. It can lead you down a path that isn’t authentic to you, and it can piss off entities/spirits. Abuse is also included in there as an extreme case.

As for tendencies, it’s unfortunately a sneaky and easy trap to fall into. Even I continuously am learning how to avoid certain pitfalls myself.

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So what is ego for starters?

The word ego has been given a bad rap in a lot of spectrums. When you think of the word “ego,” what comes to your mind? A person with an inflated head? A certain reputable figure? Someone who takes constant pictures of themselves in Instagram?

Well, these examples are implied for an ego to be a little too big, but not ego itself.

Your ego is your deep-rooted, individual identity that is created from the light aspects to the shadow, and it plays as your sense of self worth. In reality, it’s neither a good or bad thing on its own -- it’s the identity and self esteem by its pure definition. (Seriously, it’s original meaning was self esteem) It’s important to note that it’s all about identity of what makes you different from the person next to you.

People who say “ego is self illusionary” or “ego are all bad” are also ironically undergoing spiritual bypassing, because they are denying their authentic, human experiences that helps them learn -- on what they have to learn.

EVERYONE has an ego, whether you deny it or not.

Even people who talk back to me to say otherwise are ironically showing their sense of their ego, because they show disagreements with a belief that they’re confident in -- in which its tied to their self esteem with their own pot of strong beliefs that are different, which is ... well, ego.

It’s not about destroying your ego -- that’s just running away from your problems and getting into unhealthy habits to treating yourself in a toxic fashion.

It’s understanding your ego and working with it to confront what’s creating conflicts in your life, or what could help push you to make needed but daunting moves.

Instead of thinking about eliminating who you are, it’s about balance yourself. As anything that implies, it’s moderation as anything goes: Too little or too many of something from a neutral object/subject is not a good thing. I believe balance is a healthier and a more solid approach to dealing with your ego than trying to shame your self esteem and our sense of individuality.

Having a healthy ego is balance in my views, because it does tie in to your confidence of decision making and attitude towards a problem, instead of playing a victim role to play the exemption game and justify your actions -- or making excuses to stay stagnant.

A healthy ego helps you manage your sense of self worth. It protects you from the onslaught of unrealistic expectations, and it motivates you to work and give you the ability to push yourself to do things even if you’re scared.

Just because everyone has an ego/self esteem, it doesn’t mean it prevents us to somehow not connect with each other. Every thread on a tapestry is different, but each contribute their uniqueness to the entire pattern. (And yes, that’s a reference to Prince of Egypt; it’s such a good line!)

(Again, take it with a grain of salt)

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Now, what is a Spiritual Narcissist?

A spiritual narcissist is a person (or any being that’s even non-human) who has a an unstable, large ego. It’s a sense of an illusionary sense of self grandiose identity as a way to feel superior over others, and feeling the need to be better than others.

No one is immune to having tendencies, for we all had our slip at times whether we know it or not. BUT, a spiritual narcissists are people who will most likely never understand the aspect of connection and having a student mindset to learn more and be open to others.

They also indulge in using “spirituality” as escapism to encourage their ego to get bigger or to defend themselves to be exempt of accountability -- which leads to spiritual bypassing.

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What is spiritual bypassing?

Spiritual bypassing can be the gateway to being a spiritual narcissist. The definition of spiritual bypassing is using “spirituality” as a shield to magically become exempt from doing the work or escape into their own world instead of addressing their emotions or flaws.

It can also be very subtle too which makes it frustrating for all parties.

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I know it’s taking a bit but these are addressed that leads back to the spiritual narcissist, because these signs included these actions and traits:

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The signs of Spiritual Narcissism

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-Claiming to be more “special” than the average person because of their so-called powers or because of a “special access” to a god/goddess figure.

-Believing they’re “special” because they’re reincarnated from a famous historical figure. (Well, you’re not that figure presently. Does it really matter anymore?...unless you transferred some old energy that you need to work with, famous or not)

-Declaring to people that they can’t fathom their understanding because you're supposedly “awake” and they’re “asleep.”

-Condemning emotional vulnerability because it “lowers your vibrations.”

-Going to the extremes of “Love and Light” and thinking they’re above “negative” aspects that are a part of yourself.

-Get easily offended by someone else’s beliefs or rejection that aren’t inherently harmful.

-Belittling/bullying others for their religion (unless it's breaking the law)

-Promoting prejudice statements to make themselves feel better/playing the immature blame game on a group of people; on any gender, race, etc. It doesn't make you "cool," it makes you look bitter, unappealing, and embarrassingly dumb.

-Demanding tolerance when they can't even tolerate other beliefs or freedom of practice. (Again, unless it's breaking the law)

-Boasting about their spiritual achievements excessively. (It’s perfectly okay to be proud of how far we came and share it with friends in an encouraging way)

-Thinking they can transcend the physical/earthly reality and give themselves godlike qualities/ aka a god complex.

-Attempting to excessively look, dress and sound like a stereotypical spiritual person. (This can vary, but you can get what I mean)

-Flaunting how spiritual they are excessively towards strangers in social media.

-Lacking or unwilling to understand that there’s more things than their own comprehension at times, and it can be a perfect opportunity to learn.

-Unable to empathize with others, and use people’s lowest moments to get what you want.

-Condemn the shadows of any kind and thinking they’re superior/exempt from having any “negative” qualities. (Without light, there’s no darkness after all)

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Again, no one is above any of this.

I am not above it either, and it can creep into the minds of anyone who partakes in spirituality. It’s just part of the journey. BUT, it is incredibly harmful if it persists in the long run. It can sever your experiences than create a full, enriching journey in the long run.

I hope this helps you and help raise awareness for this sort of thing.

Thank you.

#spirituality #spiritual narcissism #spiritual ego #ego #toxicity #spiritual bypassing #healthy ego #spiritualism #witch #bad witches

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tabernacleheart · 2 years

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[Scripture gives us numerous terrible examples of] how deep a soul may fall when it turns away from God, and from the guidance of His grace. [Once turned to vice, even the previously upright man is] not ashamed to resort to the greatest crimes in order to cover his sin. O God! how great is our strength when we lay firm hold of Thee! And how weak we become as soon as we turn away from Thee! The greatest saints would be ready for the worst of deeds, if Thou shouldst but leave them for a single moment without Thy protection. Whoever reflects upon this, will give up all thought of self-security and spiritual pride.

Berleburg Bible

#a vital warning #the terror of sin #sin #do not fall back #Berleburg Bible #this is actually terrifying #falling from grace #backsliding #lying #grace #pride comes before a fall #there are only two sides to this war #spiritual ego #a humbling truth #without god we can do nothing

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lazyyogi · 8 months

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The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #yoga #buddhism #meditation #philosophy #hinduism #zen #mindfulness #inspiration #ego #consciousness #awareness

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bigpicturequestions · 2 years

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Spiritual Guide To Our Awakening (Video)

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#Ascension #Awakening #Conspiracy #Fears #intuitive function #New children #Spiritual bypassing #Spiritual Ego #victim

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spiritualseeker777 · 4 months

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So true

#spiritual awakening #spiritual awareness #wisdom #good advice #compassion #be kind #acts of kindness #kindness #ego #generosity

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weky-woof · 1 month

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HI i picked this game up again, here's an experiment with some charcoal brushes! :]

#weky draws #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tsp narrator #the narrator #tsp stanley #tsp #tspud #OUGH. i actually had a lot of fun with this #consider it a spiritual successor to my ultra deluxe celebration post!#asmodeus playton wright #<- the name of this narrator!#he's also been adapted to be one of my ocs as well #this is his alter ego thing you could say!#eye imagery

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aliengoddesss777 · 3 months

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#spirituality #spiritualjourney #ego death

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know-the-self · 6 months

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The thinker of thoughts is merely

Another thought.

The one who knows this is

No longer in his own way.

-Wu Hsin

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worldbuildingwanderlust · 2 months

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The void in which

We lose ourselves

Is where we find

Salvation

#my writing #poem #poetry #creative writing #ego death #detachment #letting go #spirituality #spiritual journey #spiritual growth #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #quick write

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brysonmcbee · 6 months

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existential ms paint art

#i bet there's a moment in ego death and spiritual reconstruction that feels incredible #like getting your spine cracked at a chiropractor #but on an existential level #my art #art #mspaint #blenderart #blender2d #grease pencil

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connectingwithsoul · 10 months

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Souls don’t just recognise one another, they vibrate towards each other. @connectingwithsoul

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crystalsenergy · 12 days

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We are all mirrors of each other...

literally 🪞

Don't cling to others' opinions.

They don't even represent the truth of things.

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Many times the people we deal with are dealing with THEIR OWN PROJECTIONS, they are not even looking at us for who we are. And we do the same with others. And reading about this, recognizing this, is so important, because then we stop projecting our own disorganized things onto others, as well as stop receiving so openly the projections of people as absolute truths of life.

How much of your opinions about others doesn't exactly reflect your view of them, but rather what you feel about yourself when looking at them? Some examples.

Examples:

The person who is already in their adulthood and who specifically has the frustration of not having lived their dreams, not having pursued something that fulfilled them, for various personal reasons of theirs.

It is something that calls for healing and harmonization of this, so that the person does not live with this unhappiness within themselves. However, many of us do not have the habit of reflecting on how much our past impacts our present, and neither on how much we have our baggage disorganized that we reflect onto others the who-o-le time.

So, the person in the example, older, and who has this specific issue of frustration, sees a young adult being independent, chasing their dreams.

Whenever dealing with a young person who reminds them of this, their ego immediately confronts with the information of "I wished I was living this", and this being's energy shifts to a position of envy, and sometimes it can even seek to harm the other person by inventing stories, distorting the other's independence into arrogance, gossiping, and so on.

And the "crazy" thing is that, believe it or not, this being tells themselves that they are doing this for reasons they invent for themselves ("this person is arrogant, look at them, all independent!") when, in reality, it is they who are constantly feeling uncomfortable with the strong and independent presence of the other. Low self-esteem and comparison, which unfortunately lead to envy.

The young person, in the example's case, doesn't need to say anything to the person for this to be triggered, because the ego, which is the primary channel through which we tend to have contacts with others, captures this information.

The ego will capture, will know that it is something that needs to be compensated internally but that the person, out of pride, out of ignorance, out of disinterest, out of stagnation, or whatever, did not run after correcting.

Knowing this, the ego, which has important functions for our psychic structure, but will always depend on how its "owner" conducts it, will deal with envy, as this is the way the person deals with things they receive from their surroundings and that "hit" them in the mirror effect, since, in reality, we all serve as mirrors to each other. All the time (and it was supposed to be a good thing, but the way we deal with it makes it bad).

The human ego is important,

but not the end of everything.

It is only a part of the mind's structure. It is limited, but it exists so that the human being, with their current limitations, deals little by little with what they can from the exchanges they make.

The conscious mind is limited. The unconscious, infinite (and we are more than 80% made of unconscious mind!).

The ego is the most active part in us, but it is not the only one that exists.

And so there is an axis to be activated, which is the Ego-Self axis, so that every human being knows that the place of the Ego is the place of support to live the moment, to deal with the moment.

The Ego is like a filter for consciousness to support and live. But it's not the end.

Therefore, not everything your conscious mind says is real.

The "conscious" mind needs to be refuted and reviewed by yourself, because it PROJECTS itself all the time, it is always in contact with others and taking to others what is uniquely its own (especially unresolved things, but also good things), as well as always bringing in what others say.

And if so, and if the Ego is in the part of consciousness but it is limited, does not reflect everything, it needs to be refuted. So that our mental life is healthier and truly conscious, in the pure and true sense of the word.

In the example, the person who is envying lacks independence and confidence to follow their own path internally, they are absent from it, it is something they know they do not have within them but that for their own well-being and dream, it would be important to have (after all, the more we live our lives in integrity, seeking to be and live more sides of ourselves, less restricted, limited, we will be, and your consciousness, deep down, knows this 🙌🌟).

Another important point to mention is: On the other side, if it is a person with traits of fear of judgment, fear of exclusion, this situation will negatively fit, making the being who is envying seem so right and the one who is afraid of judgment, feels down. It is important to take care of this to avoid further internal issues.

If you identify that someone is projecting onto you in a very negative way, step back, take care of it in yourself and let the other's internal work be their own. But, although difficult, avoid the issue of anger and revenge. This will keep you in this process longer than necessary.

Both people need help,

in the first case, for having a deep low self-esteem to the point of letting this splash onto others;

in the second case, for having a root of fear of judgment and fear of not pleasing others, which leads them to believe that the harshest and most negative criticisms that arise from people reflect reality.

Another example:

A woman who denies the experience of her feminine side in integrity (the issue of sexual self-awareness, for example) by conditioning herself to some kind of intense restriction, and who also experiences the difficulty of, when looking at any woman who does not do the same as her, judges, but it is not just any judgment, but rather a categorization and labeling, because for her the wound with the experience of other sides of her femininity is so limited, and, because she keeps denying this to herself, the anger at those who live in freedom arises and increases whenever she encounters such a person.

It is important for both sides to take care of this, the first, who is emanating and projecting, the second, so that their internal difficulties with fear of judgment or something similar, do not increase.

Everything can be reversed into an opportunity for healing! Heal, heal, heal, still and especially if the person has come, in malice, because of their projection, to hurt me.

These are just some of the various examples we could give to illustrate how our opinions about others and the opinions they give are not always what things really are.

Don't cling to others' opinions.

They don't even represent the truth of things.

Many times the people we deal with are dealing with THEIR OWN PROJECTIONS, they are not even looking at us for who we are. And we do the same with others.

And reading about this, recognizing this, is so important, because then we stop projecting our own disorganized things onto others, as well as stop receiving so openly the projections of people as absolute truths of life.

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tabernacleheart · 2 years

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"Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD": The zeal of Jehu was noted in his complete and energetic obedience to the LORD, to the disregard of his own safety and comfort. Yet this statement reveals the dangerous root of pride in Jehu – he is proud of his own zeal. [In fact,] his ostentatious display of his reforming zeal revealed how little he had God’s glory in mind in the midst of all his feverish activity and abolition— in sad contrast to Jesus, who always hid Himself and sought His Father’s glory only. He too had a zeal; but of what a different character from that of Jehu! “The zeal of thine house hath,[consumed] me,” He could say (John 2:17). But Jehu’s zeal, on the contrary, consumed and destroyed everybody and everything that stood in the way of his own advantage or aggrandizement, but never touched himself. [As such, although] Jehu carried out God’s will, [at heart] he did it for personal glory and out of pride, [and] he only did it partially: He stopped the idolatry of Baal, but he continued the sinful idolatry of Jeroboam. Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart... his half-commitment to God left [his] potential unfulfilled and points to a lack of any real relationship with God. [Ultimately,] the great lesson to be drawn from this remarkable man’s life is that of being constantly on guard, as servants of God, lest we be found doing His work– whether it be in the exercise of discipline, or the accomplishment of reformation– in a spirit of unbrokenness and without due exercise of heart and conscience between Him who is ‘a God of judgment,’ and by whom ‘actions are weighed.’

David Guzik & Christopher Knapp; Commentary on 2 Kings 10:16

#David Guzik #Christopher knapp #a vital warning #biblical commentary #jehu #2 kings 10 #jesus christ #humility #pride #evil zeal #this is a vital distinction #religious hypocrisy #lukewarmness #you cannot serve two masters #self worship #religion is all or nothing #2 kings 10:16 #spiritual ego

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lazyyogi · 4 months

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The ego’s needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations, no need to make it into a complex personal problem.

The ego, of course, loves that. It is always seeking for something to attach itself to in order to uphold and strengthen its illusory sense of self, and it will readily attach itself to your problems. This is why, for so many people, a large part of their sense of self is intimately connected with their problems.

Once this has happened, the last thing they want is to become free of them; that would mean loss of self. There can be a great deal of unconscious ego investment in pain and suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #consciousness #awareness #yoga #buddhism #meditation #philosophy #hinduism #zen #mindfulness #inspiration #ego

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moonhedgegarden · 3 months

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your-heart-is-a-treasure · 6 months

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Be guided by the Soul and not driven by ego.

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