Ever have someone who represents themselves as “enlightened” who hears about your circumstance and exercises spiritual superiority over you? That is to say that they assume that their level of enlightenment, spirituality, or wokeness, and then assert their level of heightened awareness onto you and your current life circumstance, because they “care about” or “love” you, but it feels like an overlord preaching at you. Instead of feeling like someone cares about you, it feels more like you’re being attacked.
In this case, asserted spiritual superiority comes across more like spiritual arrogance and this person’s claimed caring for you may actually be a toxic demand for subservience from a spiritual narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath.
How can you know if you’re dealing with a spiritual psycho?
Check-in with your heart. How does it feel?
Your heart is the most highly connected part of you. I know we all wish it was our brains that seem to run the show and get all the attention. But think about someone who cares about you. Like if you had a loving, caring parent, did they beat you into submission, demean you, give you a list of do’s and don’ts then punish you or make you feel bad if you missed the mark? Probably not.
If your parents were abusive and overbearing, then of course, when someone exerts their spiritual superiority over you, you may feel like responding with compliance because that’s what you know, and this method is effectively promoted in many successful religious circles.
For the average love-based humanoid, there’s a good chance that you will not receive someone who exerts their spiritual superiority over you after the initial contact because you’ve already written them off as not being credible.
It’s like you want to be receptive to information that is of value to you, but you can’t, because the delivery by someone who has claimed they care about you was too AGgressive/AFfirmative (AGAF).
A mentor of mine back in the day, Brother Bryan, used to say, “Don’t be so spiritually-minded that you’re no earthly good.” And that stuck with me. It’s like your doctor. If your doctor is trying to advise you on what is the best course of action for you, his or her delivery or “bedside manner” could make all the difference.
I’m not saying that narcissists don’t make good religious leaders, they do, but if someone is trying to communicate with a “normal” person, or even worse a sensitive person, then demanding compliance is not the best approach.
Abraham Hicks comes across like that if you don’t have the whole picture. In many cases, we get access to sound bites from Esther Hicks that are amazing, but these are not the whole story. For instance, Abraham might assert that your life is a reflection of your vibrational frequency. And that is not wrong, but it is also not the whole picture. Yet, many people go around asserting that you are “out of alignment” when it appears that something is not going as expected, or even worse, you are in crisis.
According to the sound bite, you’re so out of alignment that you are attracting nothing but tragedy, and if you don’t get back into alignment, the Abrahammers will flee from you in fear of your potentially threatening their superior vibration.
It’s not unlike the Christian community quoting Romans 8:28, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” The same thing, when bad things are happening to you, better look out, something’s desperately wrong with that brother or sister in the Lord.
You cannot assert sound bites without giving your recipient the benefit of the whole picture, and the how, and how you deliver your message makes all the difference. If you really care about your recipient, you must love them first. If you are leading with your heart, the person you’re trying to help will feel that. Even if they are not ready to receive what you will have to say, they will remember what you said. If you are chastising them, do not expect a receptive response.
The rest of the story
The part of the story about your life path that those who think they have the right to assert their spiritual superiority over you have left out is that,
This is Your Journey
This is your journey, only you are living it. You have not done anything wrong. In fact, you can not do anything wrong, because if you are on a spiritual journey, every breath you take, every step you make, leads to something more. And if you encounter adversity, it is a blessing, maybe not in the moment, but you know by experience that it is preparing your for something up the road.
You are not wrong
So, guess what? This is not a spiritual competition. They have no right to tell you what to do, or ever say that you are doing anything “wrong.” We are all doing the best that we can with what we have, or not. And if not, then nothing really matters, but if we are, this is the most exciting journey of all, and you’re all in. Congratulations to you.
If your sense of well-being has been interrupted by someone who feels entitled to exert their spiritual superiority over you, you don’t need to be disrespectful. Know that you do not have to listen to them or do what they tell you to do. File what they say away for another day, or disregard it altogether, but don’t let them bully you into submission. That approach may have worked in the olden days, but not anymore.
Be true to you
You are love. You are made of love. You live in love’s vibration, and for someone to effectively, connectively communicate with you, they are going to have to do so in love’s vibration or else they will only be received as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal, and that is on them.
In the meantime, be true to you.