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When spiritual communities develop hidden hierarchies

Our meditation group started as friends seeking something deeper together but now there's an unspoken hierarchy forming around who's more 'advanced' and some people are getting excluded from deeper conversations. The whole thing is becoming the opposite of what we wanted but nobody wants to be the one to call it out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego finds ways to establish dominance even in spaces dedicated to its dissolution, and the group must choose between comfort and truth.

Ideas that help explain it
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