My heart aches to see so much corruption, manipulation and control in spiritual sects as well.
It’s like in the olden times witches and women with spiritual prowess were physically tortured and killed and now a different kind of suppression exists.
The suppression through controlling people /spiritual seekers through creating cults, co dependency, control, manipulation and through their mind.
The witches still continue to be annihilated and the sad part is they can’t even see it or realize it.
The mind games and controlling the other is so subtle that the seeker doesn’t even realize it.
Very sad state of affairs.
The above introspection made me write what a spiritual teacher should be like.
The best teacher is the one who has the courage to say, “go fly, you can do it on your own”.
The true teacher doesn’t hold the students close to their chest and create dependency.
The true teacher let’s them learn to do things on their own and make their own mistakes and chart their own part.
The true teacher doesn’t decide on the behalf of students but rather lets the student make his/her own decisions and allows them to be independent.
Everyone needs a tribe but there is a difference between a cult and a community.
Most spiritual teachers are falling prey to the same patriarchal divide of superiority and inferiority. The teacher is superior and the seeker is inferior.
The circle of oneness is once again falling prey to manipulation, divide, control and toxic co dependence between the teacher and the seeker.
The moment a seeker starts putting the teacher on a pedestal, he/she begins the journey of losing his/her own uniqueness, beauty, magnificence and sovereignty.
I am not saying don’t respect the teacher or look up to them for guidance and leadership but beware of the hierarchal leadership emanating from our current dysfunctional existing set ups and a feminine influenced leadership that creates community not a cult, that promotes healthy collaboration n is not afraid to help students rise to their own glory and is ultimately about oneness and not divide.
We have such deep rooted wounding and insecurities that we now use our spiritual gifts in a manipulative way to prove to the students we are indispensable.
It is time for great awareness amongst the spiritual so called leaders as well.
Are you as a leader creating healthy influence or out of your own fears and ego and insecurities, creating toxic co dependency between yourself and your students aka one more dysfunction aka refuting the purpose of spiritual quest and healing altogether??
It’s time for some introspection for those who call themselves teachers /path showers on the spiritual path.