The Cosmic Lie Spiritual Seekers Swallow To Stay Asleep
You think you're a physical thing that must become spiritual.
This assumption sits at the core of your spiritual pursuits, infecting every meditation, ritual, and earnest prayer you perform. Your guru sells it, your favorite books promote it, and your spiritual community reinforces it through collective delusion.
Picture a fish swimming through ocean currents, desperately searching for water. The fish joins underwater seminars about "finding water," purchases special equipment to detect water, and spends years practicing techniques to "become one with water." The fish swims in circles, exhausted and confused, wondering why enlightenment remains so elusive.
This fish is you, swimming through spirituality while missing the cosmic joke – there was never a transformation needed because the separation doesn't exist. You were never just a "physical being" needing an upgrade.
The question itself reveals your addiction to division – to seeing reality as split into material versus spiritual domains…
…when no such border exists outside your mind.
The Industrial-Spiritual Complex
Your assumptions fuel a billion-dollar spiritual marketplace.
These assumptions aren't random thoughts but precision-engineered traps designed to keep you seeking, buying, and postponing your awakening until the next retreat, book, or practice. The industrial-spiritual complex thrives on your continued belief in physical-spiritual dualism.
A woman once emailed me, parading her twenty-year spiritual transformation like a peacock. When asked what evidence showed she was more spiritual now than before, her delayed response revealed the truth—two decades of spiritual collecting had left her with nothing but trinkets, concepts, and name-dropping. Her journey had taken her in a perfect circle, ending exactly where she began—just with fancier accessories and a desperate need for validation.
This story repeats with countless seekers who mistake accumulating spiritual experiences for actual awakening. The marketplace encourages this confusion because clarity would destroy profits. Imagine the collapse of the spiritual economy if people realized they weren't physical beings needing transformation.
The cosmic punchline? Your very pursuit of spirituality reinforces the false belief that you lack it. Each step toward "becoming spiritual" cements the lie that you're not spiritual already…
…a hamster wheel disguised as a path.
The Mirror Shatters
Nothing changes when nothing changes.
Your assumptions remain unquestioned because questioning them threatens your identity, your community, and your understanding of reality. The mind prefers comfortable delusions to uncomfortable truths, especially when those delusions come packaged in sandalwood and Sanskrit.
Your spiritual basement is flooded with sewage while you rearrange meditation cushions upstairs. This physical-spiritual division isn't sophisticated philosophy—it's intellectual rot beneath your spiritual McMansion. You'll read a thousand books on enlightenment before questioning the lie that makes enlightenment seem necessary. The stench seeps through your floorboards during meditation, but you light another incense stick and call it "processing karma." This contradiction sits at your core, untouched and fatal to every spiritual effort you make.
What if there's no transformation needed because there's no division to begin with?
What if "physical" and "spiritual" describe the same reality viewed from different angles?
What if the person asking the question is like someone wondering how to turn water into water?
This recognition won't make you special. It won't build your spiritual brand or impress your friends. It will simply remove a false barrier, like taking off sunglasses and realizing the world was never actually tinted blue.
The moment you stop trying to transform from physical to spiritual marks the death of seeking…
…and the birth of seeing what was always there.
The Joke's On You
Your quest is the obstacle.
Your determination to transform your nature misses the fundamental point – nature doesn't transform because nature doesn't divide itself into categories like "physical" and "spiritual." These are mental constructs, not reality.
The fish drowns in water while searching for water. The seeker dies of thirst while swimming in an ocean of what they seek. This comic tragedy plays out in meditation halls, yoga studios, and spiritual retreats worldwide as people drive themselves mad trying to become what they already are.
The only medicine for your spiritual sickness is the systematic demolition of false beliefs through relentless self-inquiry. The question itself begs for destruction. Write it down: "Is it possible for our nature to be transformed into something spiritual even though we are born as physical beings?" Now tear it apart like a hungry wolf. What assumptions lurk within? What imaginary divisions does it fabricate? What evidence supports these divisions beyond your desperate need for them to exist? Watch the question disintegrate under the weight of honest scrutiny.
The seeking mind hates this approach because it offers no new spiritual toys, no progress narrative, no spiritual identity upgrades. It simply reveals the absurdity of the question itself.
Your quest for transformation keeps you blind to your nature…
…because you can't find what was never lost.
Well said kittykat 💖