@BremenBod Goes with the turf. Brilliant souls tend to be particularly blind to awareness other or larger than their own. No wonder spiritual bypassing correlates with a sense of exceptionalism. In effect, ego conflation is out of touch whereas humility functions as an ontic superpower.
@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.
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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.