It is certainly true for myself, that although I know these spiritual truths, they won‘t take away my negative emotions or physiological discomfort. Unless I sit with those unpleasant feelings and sensations, allow them, and embrace them, the suffering won‘t end.

I observe a lot of „spiritual“ people using spirituality not only to bypass, avoid, or numb, but also as an excuse for not taking responsible action. This is really an abuse of spirituality. People say, „The universe prevented it“, and actually say that they didn‘t want to make an effort. Or they say, „We are always one on the transcendent level“, and actually say they don‘t want to commit. Or they say, „Suffering is not real“, meaning they don’t really care and don’t want to do anything about it. So in the end, they lie to themselves, and remain stuck. Nothing happens.

From my experience, unless you truly integrate these higher truths, they can become very harmful. We really need to integrate our human side and our divine side. Having lived from merely the human aspect of our existence before, there‘s a tendency to give that up entirely for the newly discovered divine aspect of existence. But then you just switch from one half of existence to the other half. We are truly both – human and divine. So we must fully embrace our humanity from being grounded in the divine, in oneness, because we are here to bring spirit, love, and truth to the world and our human existence. As long as we are here living in material bodies, we live in both worlds. So we cannot truly live from just one side, but have to bring both of them together.