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The First Step To Enlightenment Is To Lighten Up

Inner work can feel more like play if we let it

Alla Gonopolsky
Mystic Minds

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Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich / Pexels

What do Neo-hippie havens like Bali, Guatemala, and Sri Lanka have in common?

Sure, you can take a very scenic and affordable yoga class in all three, sandwiched between a cacao ceremony and a Tantra workshop. But that’s a surface-level similarity. I mean on a deeper, energetic level.

Over the last few years, I have spent much time in spiritual communities around the world, including the gorgeous trio listed above. I noticed something sobering:

Many of my fellow soul-seekers seem to take spirituality very seriously.

It’s inner work, after all. No one is smiling during meditation. Super-potent, serious plant medicines like Ayahuasca and Bufo Alvarius (a psychedelic toad venom deemed 5 times more powerful than Ayahuasca) are surging in popularity. There is crying and vomiting — and very little laughter.

People behave more like spiritual warriors battling their dark shadows and inner demons than as spiritual pacifists spreading love, joy and light.

Healing ceremonies using Kambo (Amazonian frog poison) literally leave you with a permanent battle scar at the site where the poison is…

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