Delusions of Spirituality — a capacious, multifaceted topic.
When we recorded the course “Acceptance Workshop,” I wanted to select materials and effective tools to get to the root beliefs.
An unusual phenomenon was uncovered; I had no idea how deep a layer this was, connected to spiritual practices and specifically to people who walk the path of spiritual development.
I was struck by the number of distortions, delusions, and illusions that have arisen around the topic of spirituality, or more precisely, among those people who choose the bright, the best, shining, radiating their light and love.
That is what we will talk about in this article. Read on to see how the matrix principle has unfolded in spirituality. In particular, we will examine how Lauren Gorgo describes these processes in her materials.
How the Matrix Penetrates Spirituality
What Goals Did You Set for Yourself When Starting the Path of Spiritual Development
When you embarked on the path of spiritual development, what were your goals?
Perhaps you entered through the topic of self-development, trying to escape from pain toward something better. Or to break out of a victim mentality. Or to change something in your life.
At that moment, you begin working on contact with your soul, learn that there are some higher aspects, including the Higher Self, and gradually start walking this path.
Few of you had a goal directly of spirituality, “I want to be spiritual.”
There are people who, since childhood, have been searching for a pure path because they felt not just like black sheep here, but as if they ended up in a strange reality where everything is upside down, and they want to put everything in its place. You are just waiting for the moment to engage.
Then you belong to those who came here already awakened from childhood. And the younger you are, the closer this concept is to you.
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The Matrix Principle in Spirituality. Misconceptions About Positive Thinking
There is a matrix duality, that on which the reality of the 3D world is built, that which lies at its foundation and affects everyone born here. This is the field of planet Earth in its 3D version.
There are always two poles, two extremes that oppose and contend with each other. This is the first layer, the first stratum.
And here the theme of spirituality comes in, where they write about light, about love, where everything is beautiful, where many pleasant things are spoken of, including positive thinking.
We also include unity here, where you are one with everything.
In the 3D matrix, everything opposes everything else, while in the 5D world there is infinite light, unconditional love, a vast number of possibilities, potentials, and a sense of all-unity, when you feel your interconnection with absolutely everything.
Two different concepts, two different strata, which, in theory, do not intersect, but duality remains. It does not go away. Onto this matrix foundation, where one thing opposes another, something fresh and non-standard is superimposed.
And it turns out that instead of positive thinking, when you dig out negative thoughts spinning in your head, find the reasons why they spin, the attitudes and beliefs that were instilled, including in childhood, and arrive at a state of unity, powerful matrix mechanisms are triggered.
A dual filter kicks in, and you simply begin to focus on the positive, ignoring everything that does not fit into this beautiful concept.
Why Positive Thinking Does Not Eliminate Negativity
You do not grow beyond yourself by ceasing to think negatively, ceasing to express complaints, experience dissatisfaction, envy, jealousy, rising on the scale of vibrations, but in fact you divide yourself internally into two parts with a powerful filter: “I talk about butterflies, about marshmallow, chocolate, beautiful things,” completely discarding everything that does not fit in.
This is how the matrix principle works.
And then, when you encounter negative thinking, some unpleasant event in life, it causes a surge of indignation and anger in you: “how can this be, I am a spiritual person, and such crap happens to me, what did I do to deserve this?”.
Unity also looks like this through this prism. The delusion that you are surrounded by people just like you. Hence the suffering from encounters with homeless people, a drunkard, some aggressive person on the street.
On one hand, spiritual principles are needed. They help shift the focus and honestly look at what is happening to you.
On the other hand, since this matrix opposition, confrontation sits inside, and until you integrate it and bring each individual sphere and each part of yourself to a state of unity, no matter what cool concept you take, in fact you are just putting a new wrapper on the same candy.
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Layer over 3D reality
There is a good spiritual principle “I don’t owe anyone anything.”
In words, we are all great. We know that no one owes anyone anything. We know that we need to shine. We know that we need to love everyone.
Moreover, this is not at the level of knowledge. We try to live this way, missing a huge number of our own actions in everyday life, at work, at school, in the store, which do not fit into this beautiful reality, into that knowledge which you have chosen for yourself.
And until you start working on something, you will not see it. You seem to believe in it, you have accepted it as an axiom, but the result must be the simplest actions that confirm your principles.
It is as if a really vast layer has appeared, built on top of 3D reality, where you are sure that this is how it is in your life. Because you chose these principles. But you do not see it through your own filter.
Here you lost your temper, here you behaved unpleasantly, here you should have shown audacity or self-confidence, but you do not do it, because inside you there is still a mechanism that says: “don’t stick out.”
Misconceptions and how to get out of them
“Honest misconception”
Honesty with oneself has always been important.
We pay close attention to the truth that does not align with our life principles, and this becomes highlighted. But here we are talking about a slightly different truth, an internal one.
Honesty is when I do not lie to myself, I call black black, I call pink pink.
But here, your faith in certain spiritual principles helps you turn a blind eye to what is really happening to you, how you really react, how you act in various non-standard situations.
I cannot call this dishonesty. It is rather an honest misconception. And we only see the consequence of how it unfolds.
A simple example is a weight loss system. Everyone knows that to lose weight, you need to eat less and exercise. But few people actually do it.
It is the same here. Just because some knowledge exists, and even the tools are available, if you place it on this matrix foundation where one thing opposes another, there will be no particular result. Until you eradicate this matrix principle of opposition within yourself.
Any powerful wave of energy begins to manifest and fully illuminate these inconsistencies. But if you are looking the other way and believe that you are living by spiritual principles, you will not see these inconsistencies.
Because a lot of things that do not fall under these gradations are sifted out, filtered out. And then it turns out that your real life and your spiritual principles, by which you supposedly live, do not coincide.
It is important to see this gap, otherwise a powerful distortion occurs, transferring to all areas of life.
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Cleansing from extremes
When taking any tool, it is important to double-check what foundation it is based on. Whether there is an initially embedded matrix opposition of one thing and another.
It is worth paying attention to how much this declared principle of unity is manifested specifically in your life.
In matrix reality, the principle of unity, that everything and everyone is interconnected, is perceived as there are no bad ones, only good ones remain, or the bad ones suddenly became good, and we are all united now.
In conjunction with matrix attitudes and principles, we get a colossal number of generalizations. And this colossal, excellent, working principle of all-unity turns into a filter for everything and everyone. Everyone does not love me, everyone does not appreciate me. Everyone chooses the wrong thing.
Substitution of concepts or lying to yourself
This cannot be called a lie, deception, or dishonesty in itself. Surely we bear some share of responsibility in this.
If you pull on each such thread, the woven blanket will unravel.
Perhaps it might even be frightening somewhere, because suddenly the picture of the world begins to crumble. Or what used to work will stop working. A tool that seemed great, and suddenly you begin to see a flaw.
But it’s not about the tool. It’s about what you applied it to and how you integrated it.
If you take a beautiful spiritual principle — “love and value yourself first, I come first” — how does this manifest in your real life every day?
Remember there was once a cartoon? Someone had a little bag, putting in white pebbles and black ones. Did a good deed, put in white pebbles; did a bad deed, take away white pebbles. The bag needs to be constantly replenished.
If you apply such a check regarding love, self-worth, acceptance of everyone and everything, the bag, unfortunately, will not be filled. Everyone will have different areas, different topics, but if you focus on something painful, the bag will not be filled.
Did you recognize in yourself “honest delusions” — situations where you seem to live by spiritual principles, but in reality everything is different? Give an example?