One of the fascinating kernels I'm taking away from the Foundations of Traumatic Spiritual Care course that I took was a completely fresh and non-dualistic of both performative spirituality and spiritual bypassing.

Performative spirituality encompasses both the toxic self righteousness of imaginary perfection, and the earnest stumbling of "fake it till you make it" from the recovery movement.

Spiritual bypassing encompasses the hurtful denial of reality that often crops up in the face of death and suffering, and the self soothing courage that allows us to put our lives on the line for others.

It would appear that wisdom is non-binary.

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