"We have had quite an affair with Eastern spiritual pathways, but now it is time to go deeper."
- http://realitysandwich.com/74388/spiritual_bypassing/
The following is excerpted fromSpiritual Bypassing: When
Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters, by Robert Augustus Masters, available from North Atlantic Books.
Spiritual bypassing, a term first coined by psychologist John
Welwood in 1984, is the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing
with our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs. It is
much more common than we might think and, in fact, is so pervasive as to go
largely unnoticed, except in its more obvious extremes.
Spiritual Bypassing
Anonymous
January 09, 2016