Be Discerning of The Spiritual Teachers You Follow & Work With
Authentic leaders empower you to connect to your own discernment and truth, even if it differs from theirs.
Gurus and spiritual teachers appear from left to right, charging large sums of money, giving themselves fancy titles and promising a fast path to self-realization. We’re living crazy times and spiritual brands are becoming more marketable than ever. Who can tell what is real and what is merely spirituality-based consumerism? How can we spot those who care for others in a sea of people who only seem to seek for themselves?
I pride myself on being an extremely intuitive person, a living, breathing BS detector, but I have to admit, things still get incredibly confusing. Many spiritual teachers out there have mastered the art of pretense, manipulation and glib and could easily win the Oscar for putting on the best show out there. While there are several ways to identify the fakes, such as their obsession with an end goal (enlightenment), their hypocrisy (preaching one thing, yet practicing something entirely different) or the amount of ego and materialism involved, one of the biggest things that will give it away is the way they respond to another person’s truth.
