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When spiritual communities develop subtle hierarchies

Our meditation group started as a way to explore contemplative practice together but it's become subtly competitive about who's more spiritually advanced, and we're all pretending not to notice the hierarchy that's emerged. The thing that was supposed to dissolve ego has become another way to perform it.

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The pursuit of ego transcendence has created new forms of spiritual materialism that everyone recognizes but no one wants to name.

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