The Transcendental: The Church Project

The Spiritual Body

March 24, 2024

In spirituality, it is not the alignment that hurts, but the misalignment. Personally, I would have this physical reaction to it, a physical reaction when there's something about the energy - my own while interacting with others. It resembles burnout but unlike the usual burnout gradually building up because of physical, mental, and/or emotional overexertion, well, this happens in the spiritual body or energy level - where the person experiences like this clinical anxiety but is not.

I wrote about hermitting and I covered how that is important in developing spirituality, that it's kind of like how these students train to become spiritual teachers or mentors, but I didn't talk about the retreats while already doing or practicing spiritual work. Being spiritual or being a spiritual worker doesn't mean you won't be needing retreats or a little time out or time away from doing the work. And I find that a strong indicator that spiritual workers need to earth and ground is when they start developing this sort of sensitivity - not just sensitivity to sounds but to people's energy also. When I say sensitivity, also, not just because there's actually bad energy but just strong like lively, energetically charged. When you start feeling like you need to go out and distance yourself from that energy - you know, like when there are a lot of people talking at the same time. It's not that there's a problem with their energy, but the person is now actually experiencing a misalignment in terms of energy and needs to balance it out, bring it back to balanced/harmonious levels.

People will say: Oh, you're just an introvert. But more than introversion, I think it's really more to do with spiritual body burnout.

I write like as a spiritual worker I am done breaking cycles and doing shadow work, but I still am dealing with residues, and astrologically, I feel that I am more predisposed to getting a spiritual burnout during retrogrades and new or full moons. But it's because retrogrades and these moon phases bring up either things for you to just start working on or residual energies you worked on. It's a time of assessment. It's a good time for a spiritual worker to assess the work he's done on the spiritual level. Somebody said that old works turn up because you're not doing the work or you still have that problematic approach, but that's a generalization. It could be just that you're already finishing things up, you're getting there, not that you're not doing the work. But an old theme would surface and it's just for assessment - to see how much you've learnt, how much of the learning you remember and you're actually putting into practice. And people have to be careful because when this happens, this is when people fall back to old patterns. It's kind of like a question getting reworded and it becomes a tricky question. The person had answered that question correctly before but given a different scenario, well, gives a different answer. I get these tricky questions a lot, more so when I am experiencing a spiritual burnout.

Kerry K's post about entities and trauma gave me this profound insight as to why people end up embracing misalignment instead of working on realignment. It's because it's easier to pacify or soothe the entity attached to the trauma or the misalignment, like it's easier to please the bully than to work on realignment or removing or dislodging the entity. I've never pleased a bully - at least not when I am not experiencing a spiritual burnout, in which case, it won't be my intent. But spiritual burnout is having an entity attached to a misalignment too - the only difference is that it's likely an old entity that's already been dealt with in the past coming up for a little reflection. But I was like: That's interesting, Kerry. 'Cause when I get the burnout, I just kind of feel like I am a little low on energy and something old comes up and all I could do at the moment is curl up in a ball while charging up. And I have already done shadow work, I have already developed spirituality/a spiritual practice. I was like: How's that gonna look like for others who have yet to do shadow work or be immersed in it?

If a teacher finds himself having a burnout from time to time, how's that looking with a student?

People don't get to dislodge the entity because it's easier - the entity makes it appear easier for them to just give the entity what it wants. It's like when the entity is this group of girls or boys who are like: if you are cool, you do this. Or if you want to be one of us, you dress like this or you do this this way, and the person is like: I just want peace so I would just please these people.

And so they get misalignment on top of an existing misalignment. 'Cause you don't work with the entity and not be embodying the entity.

But the entity just really survives by nurturing misalignment. The entity doesn't survive because of the person but the misalignment in the person's life.

What is a misalignment? Overthinking is a misalignment. Misalignment is where there's a wrong way of doing things that results in people getting hurt or there being some form of conflict or chaos. 'Cause the opposite is alignment - where there is peace and order and because people are doing things the right way.

Misalignment brings illnesses/diseases/dysfunction/just a general sense of being unwell and alignment brings healing/health/wellness/well-functioning communities.

People get confused about what the right thing to do is with misalignment, when there is conflict and chaos, when people are getting hurt, but underneath that confusion is the clarity that is you don't feed the entity. But as a spiritual worker, I keep seeing people feeding the entity - but now, I see it's because it's easier. Now I am not about to generalize and say that easy is not the way to go about doing things, but in cases where there is a misalignment - just a blatant error - easy is a trap. When it feels easy to just give in and give the entity what it wants, it's a trap - that's how trauma and misalignment gets buried under layers of trauma and misalignment. This is where you do the right thing though it looks hard, more so when it feels like a foolish thing to be doing.

It looks hard not belonging, being excluded. But not belonging and getting excluded by groups that nurture the entity is doing the right thing.

This isn't at all about being self-righteous. We're just talking about quality of life - the relationship between morality or doing the right thing and quality of life. When people nurture entities of misalignment and trauma, we don't get good quality of life.

It's easy for people to say they want good quality of life, but it gets hard when dealing with entities. People start contradicting themselves. They don't know whether they value health and wellness, peace and harmony, kindness and compassion or they value the opposite of those things. I say they don't know because they will say they value health and wellness and yet they contribute to nurturing entities that create the opposite of that. It's weird.

But I think it's just a person taking charge and a person letting the entity take charge. It's power. Personal power.

When a person is in charge, he doesn't get confused, he knows what to do with the entity. He works on dislodging it. People call it self-love, but I call it taking charge. People don't feel comfortable taking charge. And I am not talking about domination, that's different. I mean being comfortable making your own choices and doing things your way.

When people say they don't know what's best for them, that's just a taking charge issue. It's not that developed. But when developed, people just know. People who take charge are not pushovers. And when dealing with entities of misalignment, taking charge is how you get to alignment because that's how the person moves away to the opposite direction to correct the alignment, otherwise more misalignment is created, more injury. If you like going against the grain, this is a good way of practicing that. You use that for correcting misalignments.

'Cause people collectively feeding the entity is not correcting a misalignment. If somebody were to wonder why something is not getting corrected, it's because they're not going against the grain, they're defining the pattern.

But it's really gonna come from taking charge. It begins with developing autonomy - comfort in making your own choices and doing things your way. That's what allows people to correct misalignments. 'Cause then, they could really go against the grain. I won't even say be a one man army 'cause that suggests going to war or being at war. Just autonomy and what it's really about which is healthy individuality.

You have to have healthy individuality first to do that work in the community.