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When spiritual communities become trapped in their own image

Our friend group has been meeting monthly for spiritual practice for two years but lately it feels performative and I think we're all pretending to be more enlightened than we are. Nobody wants to be the one to say it's not working because we've all invested so much in this identity of being the people who do this work together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group's investment in being seen as evolved has created a barrier to the authentic vulnerability that actual growth requires.

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