False spirituality offers sedation and escapism from reality; it's very convenient for the powerful. True spirituality means expanding consciousness of reality: consciousness of our inner dynamics AND outer dynamics which lead to suffering. Nearly all spirituality today is false.
False spirituality helps you hide the ugly truths within and without by offering comforting narratives and practices which help sedate your emotional body. True spirituality brings consciousness to those ugly truths, within and without, and brings them into the light to be seen.
The powerful benefit from false spirituality. They say "Use mindfulness and deep breathing exercises to help you cope with the stress of a meaningless, exploitative job!" They glorify meekness, obedience and poverty, and extoll us to forgive those who have committed great evils.
True spirituality is the last thing the powerful would ever want to go mainstream, because it means waking up to reality. It means no longer being able to tolerate untruth, in oneself or in society. The powerful thrive on untruth, on hiddenness: the opposite of true spirituality.
Humanity embracing true spirituality would mean a transformation in our relationship with mental narrative, which would be impossibly disruptive to the propaganda techniques the powerful use to propagandize us, and it would mean getting real with ourselves about our persecutors.
Dysfunction and consciousness cannot coexist. Where there is sufficiently deep awareness that something is dysfunctional, the dysfunction naturally moves toward health. True spirituality and corrupt power are therefore natural enemies, because true spirituality expands awareness.
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