Spiritual Bypassing

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

True Crime, Film, Society & Culture, Documentary, Nxivm, Cult, Philosophy, Narcissistic Abuse, Tv & Film, Psychology, Television, Narcissism, Coercion, Coercive Control

4.8 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode: What is Spiritual Bypassing? The problem with 'being above it all'. Dissociating from difficult feelings. Robert Augustus Masters write a book on Spiritual Bypassing, then abused his students. Toxic positivity protects abusers. The inability to acknowledge darkness. Teachers who haven't dealt with their psychological shit. Creating a kind of hell for yourself because you're not allowed to feel human. No compassion for self or others. Magically changing timelines to another re...

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0:00.0	My name is Mark Viscente.
0:06.8	I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker.
0:11.6	I'm not totally certain if the trouble finds me or I find it.
0:16.5	I'm most known as the director of the film What the Bleep Do We Know?
0:20.1	And as one of the Nixium whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.
0:24.6	Let's just say I know a thing or two about cults.
0:28.6	I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over,
0:34.6	waking up, and knowing how to spot them.
0:40.2	And let me tell you, they're everywhere.
0:46.9	As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things, and I'm utterly fascinated by the patterns in human behavior that create the best and the worst in society.
0:52.4	I'm part geek, part rebel, and pissed off about a whole bunch of things.
0:58.8	Join me as I unpack a whole range of topics to do with psychology, spirituality, consciousness,
1:04.6	morality, cults, narcissistic abuse, science, filmmaking, and philosophy.
1:10.9	You never quite know what you're going to get, as it really does depend on what the
1:15.8	fuck is on my mind.
1:23.1	Hello and welcome to episode three of my What the Fuck Is in My Mind podcast.
1:28.8	Today we're talking about spiritual bypassing.
1:31.3	It's a huge problem and a huge issue in our society today.
1:36.7	The term was coined by John Wellwood, who was a prominent psychotherapist and author in the transpersonal psychology field.
1:44.9	What is it exactly?
1:47.0	This is my understanding.
1:49.1	Basically, a person has some kind of pain or some kind of trauma or something uncomfortable
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