Is Sophisticated Spiritual Bullshit Misleading You?

What living in a community taught me about being real

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Spirituality isn’t a ‘trend’. Becoming spiritual isn’t about gaining a new personality, getting a new vocabulary or wardrobe, buying crystals or doing yoga. It’s about returning to our natural state — Unknown Author

I woke up at 04.30 AM after another night of light troubled sleep and started contemplating to leave the community I am living in at the moment.

Some idealistic feelings and desires for safety and family had driven me in the arms of this experiment to co-create a heart & mind coherent, safe and ‘spiritual’ family.

One month later, I feel exhausted as if an energetic truck has run me over.

What the flower power happened?

Making sense of it all this early morning, I realized nobody I shared my living space with for the last weeks has a clear idea of what ‘Spirituality’ really is, or ‘Community’. I had surrendered myself to an idea, a concept.

The common denominator for people in most communities is an urgent need for belonging. To feel at home in an increasingly…