by Ray Bratcher
Pretending like there aren’t any problems is “toxic positivity”.
Pretending like the problems don’t affect you because your vibe is so high that it’s above the problems, is “toxic positivity”.
Pretending like you are unaffected by the problems because you’ve “achieved non-dual realization” so you know “none of this is real” is “toxic positivity”.
There is nothing “spiritual” about toxic positivity. You’re the same as totally non-spiritual people who just focus on outward activities, like promotions at work and parties on the weekends, in order to distract themselves from what is going on.
Both of you are pretending you don’t know what you know and don’t see what you see.
Both of you are just avoiding the truth.
Jesus knew the world wasn’t real. He knew “they know not what they do”. He knew the leper wasn’t real and that the disease the leper thought he had wasn’t real.
But. He. Still. Healed. The. Leper.
Maybe even knowing none of it is real is HOW he healed even, but the take away is he healed. He got involved.
He helped.
He didn’t say, “Well your leprosy isn’t real. You need to give that up. And why did you give it to yourself in the first place?”
So long as you have a body in form, so long as you exist physically in this “world”, you are contributing to the collective illusion so you have a responsibility to get your spiritual hands dirty and get involved.
Yes, the whole world is an illusion thing is a necessary step, but then you come back. Until you ascend off the planet in a sparkling rainbow body of light, you come back and you help.
I call it “embodied enlightenment”.
“In the world, but not of it” means to transcend the problems and the suffering and address them from a higher place, a place of forgiveness instead of conflict, but, it doesn’t mean you just ignore them.
There is nothing spiritual about just “hanging out” while the people around you are in suffering, pain, and misery.
I am calling for a higher level of spiritual activism.
Because “toxic positivity” is
truly
toxic.
Sacred Breath 