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Spiritual Bypassing
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8am PDT • 11am EDT • 4pm UK • 5pm CEST • 8.30pm IST
Dear Friend,
The term “spiritual bypassing” was coined by Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist John Welwood in the early 1980s.
Welwood describes it as the “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks”.
In recent years, the idea has gained widespread traction. It has taken root and propagated in spiritual circles, and has quickly become part of the vernacular of postmodern spiritual practice. It’s seen as one of the many pitfalls of embarking on a serious path.
But there is yet another, more radical, way to look at spiritual bypassing. Enlightenment in the traditional sense is the total and final escape from the suffering of Samsara, so from this perspective spiritual bypassing is actually the whole point.
In deep meditation, parts of our everyday functional perception seem to literally go offline, bypassing our thoughts and emotions and freeing us from neurotic self-concern – if only temporarily.
In this specific context, the goal of enlightenment is to undergo a permanent shift of attention, in which the ceaseless preoccupation with the content of the mind – thoughts, emotions and experiences – is replaced with an ecstatic gnosis.
In this talk, Andrew Cohen explores the phenomenon of spiritual bypassing, and the challenges, contradictions and paradoxes of working with a serious spiritual path.
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Spiritual Bypassing
Live Zoom teaching with Andrew Cohen
Cost $0 – $50
Saturday 26th September
8am PDT • 11am EDT • 4pm UK • 5pm CEST • 8.30pm IST
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