Spiritual Ignorance...

" Spiritual Ignorance" , in my experience, is believing that the roles, functions, name and form we take, is ALL we are.

However, I tend to shy away from making strong or absolute statements about "ego/ personality/body/mind, being "not who you are on any level whatsoever" or being totally illusory or "unreal".

This is because I feel it can be misleading and bring people who misapply it on a merely conceptual level, to a very dissociated state that is shut down rather than open and can create a very flat emotional state that is unhealthy and not really "awakened" at all, but, on the contrary, is asleep to and distant from life rather than wild, passionate and alive with gusto and juice for life.


- Francis Bennett