The Season's of forgiveness: The beauty of our natural cycle
Throughout the years I’ve been doing client sessions I’ve been seeing a phenomenon that’s increasing — a phenomenon I call spiritual correctness. Spiritual correctness is the corollary to political correctness, but in the realm of spirituality instead.
People want to be spiritually evolved for many reasons. Some people believe that if they’re more spiritually evolved they’ll experience less pain in their life. That comes from the idea that attachment leads to suffering. There’s nothing wrong with believing that, but there’s no evidence that life is less painful if we’re more spiritually evolved. Some people actually experience more pain as they become sensitive to the world and experience deepening compassion for human kind’s sufferings.
Some people want to become more spiritually evolved out of a belief that they should be liberated from their ego. The ego is considered the root of human pain. They believe if they can get rid of the ego or subdue it they’ll finally have peace. With the goal of extinguishing the ego, they’re on the lookout for all the ways the ego expresses itself. That leads to self criticism which to save face stimulates the ego’s desire to see itself as better — creating a spiritual one upmanship that can lead to an inner spiritual arrogance.
In the process of trying to liberate themselves from their ego they inadvertently strengthen it. - a spiritual Catch 22.
When you hold that there’s a way that you are supposed to be or act as you grow spiritually or have a timeline for how things are supposed to show up inside you or how your supposed to feel, you begin to fake it. You don’t mean to — you just do. You begin to fool yourself about where you are rather than just be where you are. You begin to speak and act with spiritual correctness.
There are lots of attitudes that reflect spiritual correctness, They show up as beliefs about sexuality, money, success, and especially forgiveness.