Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -2, 1 August 2020 | Page 19

others, as long as you respect their boundaries. But sometimes developing
an expanded spiritual perspective gives the ego an opportunity to feel more
“knowledgeable” than others still trapped in illusion. When unsolicited
advice is given to others, the results can be disastrous (think anger, upset,
offense etc.).
Wanting to help others can also be used as a way of escaping our need to
help ourselves. Under the guise of being “spiritual” and compassionate,
helping others can be just another form of spiritual bypassing.

5. The trap of wanting to revolutionise the world
Once we wake up to the lies and corruption present in our current societal
structure, many of us want to desperately change society. We fall into the
trap of thinking that freedom, honesty, and justice can be created by
changing the external system. As a result, we buy into the “us versus them”
and “divide and conquer” mentality that is a product of the ego’s tunnel
vision. We don’t realize that we’re actually fuelling the corrupt system which
depends on anger and chaos to thrive and survive. Instead of
understanding that all true change comes from an internal revolution, we
get caught up in the pursuit of external revolution which is fragile and
transient.
6. The trap of meaninglessness
Once we experience divine and transcendent states of being in which we
become One with all, we can fall into the trap of spiritual nihilism after the
experience passes. In other words, once we realize, from the perspective of
the Universe, that nothing we do ultimately matters because all is passing,
we can fall into a depressive mindset. Using truths such as “All is an
illusion,” the person who falls for this trap tends to filter life through the
mind. By mentally clinging to these truths, they become beliefs that the ego
uses as an excuse to paradoxically feel separate from existence.