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@LamaSuryaDas end/ ...including the perennial challenge of spiritual bypassing. 🙏 ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Feb 2024

@EsmeLKPartridge Humility lands as a bastard. Typically, Sages aver that fully owning psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness and which touch into the essence of psychopathology and the perennial problem of evil, delineates a maturation that folk lean into only later in life.

‘. . . the intolerable pretensions of saints who have forgotten that they are sinners.’ -Reinhold Niebuhr, ND2:130 1/ Didn't he note that kind folk, especially, underestimate their capacity for self-deception? A tendency compounded by the occupational hazards of the Path. Around shadow work, other traditions provide essential complements. Buddhist existential psychology is worth a check in. Quote tweet: Indeed, for many, it can actively encourage and support it. I presume you know the growing body of work on 'spiritual bypassing'. Welwood, for example, described the correlation between certain psychological complexes and specific meditation practices. end/ Frankly, the most impressive locus of shadow work I've encountered hasn't been around a couch or with a 'religious current' per se, but in mensgroupwork Stateside, specifically @mankindproject, and #Illuman, a smaller initiative leaning more fully into God acknowledgement.
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‘. . . the intolerable pretensions of saints who have forgotten that they are sinners.’ -Reinhold Niebuhr, ND2:130 1/ Didn't he note that kind folk, especially, underestimate their capacity for self-deception? A tendency compounded by the occupational hazards of the Path. Around shadow work, other traditions provide essential complements. Buddhist existential psychology is worth a check in. Quote tweet: Indeed, for many, it can actively encourage and support it. I presume you know the growing body of work on 'spiritual bypassing'. Welwood, for example, described the correlation between certain psychological complexes and specific meditation practices. end/ Frankly, the most impressive locus of shadow work I've encountered hasn't been around a couch or with a 'religious current' per se, but in mensgroupwork Stateside, specifically @mankindproject, and #Illuman, a smaller initiative leaning more fully into God acknowledgement.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @prayerofconsent @canva An addendum. In a Buddhist existential key, spiritual bypassing is a defense against dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and the givens of existence (contingency, finitude, death) disguised as wisdom. As such, chronic serenity appears wise but is really indifference dressed up as depth.Quoted by@prayerofconsent @canva An addendum. In a Buddhist existential key, spiritual bypassing is a defense against dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and the givens of existence (contingency, finitude, death) disguised as wisdom. As such, chronic serenity appears wise but is really indifference dressed up as depth.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @HayJoe777 @HootenWilson Jean Vanier helped sober me up. To notice a sin, he observed, for which no one assumes accountability, requires oneself assuming the full existential burden of its weight and correction. Then again, in a world stricken by blindness, the fruits of such care are plentiful and kind.Quoted by@HayJoe777 @HootenWilson Jean Vanier helped sober me up. To notice a sin, he observed, for which no one assumes accountability, requires oneself assuming the full existential burden of its weight and correction. Then again, in a world stricken by blindness, the fruits of such care are plentiful and kind.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Temenosis You might try @SophiaCycles a little while. Béa's a sage of the transcendent-psych current and, as such, a highly astute interpreter of Jung. She also tracks the moderns following in his immediate wake. A crucial, highly accessible motherlode of planetary profundity, all told.Quoted by@Temenosis You might try @SophiaCycles a little while. Béa's a sage of the transcendent-psych current and, as such, a highly astute interpreter of Jung. She also tracks the moderns following in his immediate wake. A crucial, highly accessible motherlode of planetary profundity, all told.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Classic Jung, isn't it? “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”