A Real Time Personal Connection with Divinity.
In the last article, we talked about fitting in and the distinct chapters of life that divinity uses to fortify us against loneliness.
In the end, we come out with the ability to be ourselves no matter the perceived social consequences—and that kind of solidity sets us up, quite literally, for the rest of our lives.
Here, we’re continuing onward and getting right into Reason #4 for why spiritual people struggle:
They look “out there” for solutions.
If you’ve been around the spiritual world for a while, you’ve probably already realized how few spiritual “influencers” truly understand what they’re teaching.
You’ve been on those Instagram Lives and webinars, and felt slivers of truth mixed in with some seriously questionable ideas or energy. Something always just feels… off about it.
It becomes your job, on the receiving end, to sort through that mixed bag and mine for truth.
Yes, you can come out with a tidbit here or there, but you also come away feeling a bit exhausted and confused.
A few years ago, we had a segment on our YouTube lives called, “Don’t Get Duped!”
It’s our best attempt at recreating this experience by dressing up as absurd characters from the self-help industry and teaching their ideology.
We’d then go on to explain (as ourselves) why those ideas can be compelling, but also why they’re simply not true.
There’s a reason we had this segment, and it wasn’t just for fun—though that was definitely a piece of it!
We did this segment because we understood how convincing it can be to watch someone “influential” share ideas that can only take us off path.
If you’ve noticed, the most compelling messages of all tend to be those that come from the people we want to be most like.
Meaning, they’re the messages shared by the embodiment of a spiritual ideal we aspire toward.
They’re the living embodiment of spiritual “perfection.”
Now, of course, that ideal doesn’t actually exist in them—certainly now how they portray it.
But, watching them present themselves as an expert can be compelling enough to make you think, “Maybe this person knows something I don’t.”
You still feel like something is off. That never really goes away. But because they’ve done their job at “establishing authority,” you end up counterbalancing that feeling with insecurity.
You keep watching anyway.
Zooming out, it’s important to understand what’s actually happening here.
We’re collectively at a time where, unlike any other chapter in our recent history, we have the opportunity to truly think for ourselves when it comes to spirituality.
The church doesn’t have a monopoly on truth anymore.
It’s not crazy or outlandish in our day and age to be “spiritual, but not religious.”
And even “spirituality” looks different from person to person.
For the first time, maybe ever, we’re moving from the ruleset-based spiritual ideologies of old, to a personal real-time relationship with divinity.
At least… some are.If you look around, most people are still searching for an authority figure to tell them who God is and how to be “good.”
This is true, even in mainstream spirituality.
It’s actually pretty remarkable (in the worst way) that we’ve ended up appointing our own spiritual priests and bishops in the form of Instagram and TikTok influencers.
We, as a society, have still managed to offload our personal sovereignty to anyone willing to take it.
What’s the difference, really. between a “top spiritual influencer” and the Pope?
What’s the difference between going to church for a rigid ruleset, and going online to watch a random stranger who had a profound spiritual experience teach conflicting spiritual messages he read on Pinterest that week?
Here at The Second Paradigm, we play a pretty odd role.
We “teach” people how to be sovereign.
We show them the tricks of the trade, and peel back the curtain.
We “lead” people on a path that is meant to be uniquely theirs.
We end up walking this fine line of being teachers and mentors, while also understanding that our opinion can never supersede what someone truly gets intuitively.
It’s an odd balance, but it’s something we’ve thought about so vigorously and for so long, that we’ve gotten good at walking that line.
We understand, at the end of the day, that we’re not true authorities.
We just dedicated our lives to the same exact thing you have, and have found our soul’s calling in explaining the subtleties of this path to others.
We work for God—not the “God” of the church, or the “Universe” of mainstream spirituality—the real God.
The real God is the force that you’re already speaking with inside of you.
It’s the force behind your intuitive knowing, and it’s why your intuition is always right, good, and true.
When you already have that real-time personal connection to God itself, why in the world would you seek out an arbitrary ruleset to follow from a spiritual influencer?
Mainstream spirituality has its fair share of problems.
An uncomfortable percentage of mainstream spiritual teachings, for example, come from ancient black magic cults that go back thousands of years.
But maybe the biggest problem of all is just how twisted the power dynamics are.
If someone isn’t helping you to get clearer on what God is already telling you, they don’t work for God.
How could they be?
If someone is giving you arbitrary practices that put a barrier between you and “spiritual perfection,” they’re not helping—they’re creating distance between you and divinity.
You don’t need perfect thoughts to have a clear intuition.
You don’t need to be “fully healed,” whatever that means, to be in a harmonious relationship with divinity.
You don’t need someone on the Internet, or in a church, telling you that the messages you receive from God on the best path forward are somehow invalid.
Your path is uniquely tailored to you.
No one else is getting the same intuitive guidance as you are right now, because no one else is living your life.
Divinity doesn’t speak in rulesets.
Divinity speaks to unique circumstances, at precise moments in time.
For many on this path, mainstream spirituality simply doesn’t work—and turning back to Christianity for answers isn’t enough either.
At some point, that has to be okay.
At some point, we have to admit to ourselves just how far along this path we truly are, and how precise our intuitive channel has become.
If you already feel the voice of God in your heart, and know exactly what’s here for you in our own unique circumstances…
What else can we possibly find “out there” that’s worth denying that precious connection?
The reason you don’t find your truth “out there” in someone else, is because it’s divinity’s personal message to you. It’s your real-time personal connection to God itself, and nothing can be more precious or true than that.
That was Reason 4 in the Top 5 Reasons Spiritual People Struggle (and how to overcome them):
They look “out there” for solutions.
That means, we’re more than halfway through this series! Next, we get into our final reason why spiritual people struggle:
“They don’t understand how badly darkness wants to stop them.”
As the series wraps up, a lot of the conversations we’ve already had are going to starting slotting a bit differently. We’re excited to be able to take this conversation a few layers deeper.
See you in the next one!
