#201: How to Spot a False Spiritual Teacher (Before It Costs You Everything)
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Tara LaFon Gooch discusses how to discern a true spiritual teacher from a false one based on her personal experiences.
Ever walked away from a spiritual teacher, a retreat, or a guru-led program feeling more empty than when you started? ↳ Connect with the host, Tara LaFon Gooch on all platforms The Discernment Series : Episodes #200 through #204 are one continuous argument: almost everything you've been taught to trust; your instinct to have the last word, the teachers who sound spiritual, the universe you thank, the opinions you perform for; is a counterfeit standing in for the real thing. This five-part series walks through peace, discernment, worship, inner capacity and identity, and in every case makes the same move: strip away the substitute, and point back to God as the only legitimate source. You can't win your peace back by winning arguments. You can't discern truth without knowing the voice of the real Shepherd. You can't pray to a universe that was never listening. You can't build an identity out of other people's opinions of you. And you cannot fully accept God's blessings in your life if your inner capacity to hold it is leaking. Five different traps, one root cause and one way out. In this solo episode, Tara breaks down the real test for discerning a true spiritual teacher from a…
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