The Hidden Cult Agenda of Meditation Retreats
“Spiritual bypassing often adopts a rationale based on using absolute truth to deny or disparage relative truth” —John Welwood
I’ve never been so calm and infuriated after a mediation retreat.
I was lucky.
In such a place a few years ago, I may have come out buzzing with self-generated ecstasy and unwavering certainty that I’d found my true home.
But not this time.
Instead of being infatuated with myself and already switching up my wardrobe for all whites, I was quietly and peaceful raging.
And I was proud of it.
If I’d happened to be a little more naive, uncertain, or vulnerable, I may have fully believed the teachings of group and saw my anger as toxic and a sign that my heart had been sealed shut over years of neglect and abuse.
We’d just finished nearly five days in silent meditation, and the main topic of the retreat was opening your heart and feeling more and deeper love.
But there my anger was, fully present and at the same time calm and held like a baby in one of those baby sling wrap things.
There were no veins on my forehead bulging.
