Episode #139 - The Spirituality That's Keeping You Stuck | Cynthia Abulafia
About this episode
The episode explores how certain spiritual practices may inadvertently keep seekers stuck, featuring insights from Cynthia Abulafia on the 'transcendence bias'.
What if the spiritual path you've been walking for years… has been quietly keeping you stuck? Most people doing the work never see it coming. Almost no one who sincerely pursues spiritual growth expects it to become the trap. But for so many people who have done the therapy, the meditation, the plant medicine, the retreats; the transformation they went looking for never fully arrived. Not because they didn't try hard enough. Because they were given the wrong map. In this episode of The Conscious Man 7 Podcast, I sit down with Cynthia Abulafia, author of Embodying the Goddess, yoga therapist, and Shakta Tantra practitioner with over 20 years of experience, to explore what she has found at the root of this: a flaw she calls the “transcendence bias.” The idea that real awakening means going up and out of the body. And almost no tradition ever taught anyone how to come back. What happens to the people left behind: disoriented, disconnected, mistaking the hollowness for humility, she calls the “transcendence hangover.” It is far more common than most people realise. And it has a way back. In this conversation we cover: why sincere spiritual seekers so often feel more lost after years…
People in this episode
Host: Todd Cave
Guest: Cynthia Abulafia
Topics covered
- spiritual growth
- transcendence bias
- divine feminine movement
- tantra teachings
- masculine teachings
- spiritual seekers
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Embodying the Goddess
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