The Hidden Cult Agenda of Meditation Retreats

Joe Hunt
Age of Awareness
Published in
14 min readApr 29, 2022

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“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…

Joe Hunt
Age of Awareness

No-Nonsense Mindfulness Coach, MSc in Mindfulness-based Approaches. Coaching, Workshops & Posts: remind.substack.com