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When spiritual bypassing meets consumer culture

I convinced myself that expensive meditation retreat would fix everything and now I'm back home three days later feeling exactly the same with a maxed out credit card.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego co-opts spiritual seeking as another form of acquisition, avoiding the simple work of presence.

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