11/23/2025
In this week's shadow course, we will be talking about the concept of spiritual bypassing and psychedelics.
"We often use the goal of awakening or liberation to rationalize what I call premature transcendence: trying to rise above the raw and messy side of our humanness before we have fully faced and made peace with it. And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or dismiss relative human needs, feelings, psychological problems, relational difficulties, and developmental deficits." - John Welwood
And as Jack Kornfield once said, "before ecstasy, do the dishes and take out the garbage. After ecstasy, do the dishes and take out the Garbage." We still have to show up and deal with the things in life, no matter how "enlightened" we have become.