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Spiritual bypassing - the utilization of spiritual values to avoid interacting with painful emotions, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs - is so pervasive which it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any custom, whether Religious commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for experts to duck unpleasant feelings and only more apparently enlightened activity. When break up off from fundamental internal needs, such activities often do a lot more damage than good. While other creators have touched on the subject, this is the first book fully devoted to spiritual bypassing. In the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa's landmark Reducing Through Spiritual Materialism, Spiritual Bypassing provides an detailed look at the unresolved or overlooked internal issues often masked as spirituality, including self-judgment, extreme niceness, and mental dissociation. A longtime psychotherapist with an participating writing style, Masters furthers the body of psychological information into how we use (and misuse) religion in often unconscious ways. This audiobook will carry particular appeal for those who grew up with an unstructured new-age spirituality now buying a more mature spiritual practice and for anyone seeking increased self-awareness and a more robust relationship with themselves and others.
