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When intellectual spiritual exploration becomes emotional

Our book club started reading spiritual texts and now it's become this intense thing where people are having revelations and breakdowns and some of us just wanted to discuss ideas but others are treating it like group therapy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between seeking wisdom and seeking healing dissolves, leaving a group uncertain about what they've committed to hold for each other.

Ideas that help explain it
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