Narcissistic pseudo spirituality

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[NarcSurvivor]

Narcissists will often use spirituality as an excuse for their self-centeredness.

[reettaelina]

It feels the worst when you find your spiritual friends not really having empathy

[Vezmus]

"Knowing that you don't know everything is half of wisdom."

[faeriegothmother]

“It’s the same invalidation and manipulation as always, it just now smells like incense!” Brilliant and true!

[belindablunderbus]

"Plastic hippies" is how I used to describe people like this years before I knew what narcissistic abuse was.

[eVaniwithaV]

I completely agree! There’s no ego like a spiritual ego…

[markkavanagh]

People who really are spiritual are humble in my experience.
They know it takes work and patience and that the Divine is far greater than themselves.

[jaderaeann]

One of the WORST type of narcissistic behaviors I’ve encountered.
Was told by my best friend of 6 years that “my energy was horrible” after getting PTSD and that I really needed to spend time working on myself because it wouldn’t feel so bad if I just spent time “doing the work”
Narcs are experts at bashing and back handed compliments, but more than ever if you go to them vulnerably and emotionally. They see it as another opportunity to win and you to lose 👎 ain’t nobody got time for that.

[philipstephens]

Humility is how you know someone is really evolving spiritually

[petermartin]

The highest spiritual achievement is love and compassion for others. Self centered people who think they are higher than those around them are deluded.

[warriorpoet]

I went out with a woman exactly like this. Yoga every day, meditation retreats etc. a vegan who “ cared for all living creatures” except humans…turned out to be a sociopath and a narcissist. I was lucky to escape.

[turtleofthewaternation]

I lived with a "spiritual" narcissist for years. I finally got so fed up with it at one point, I packed my bags, went to the airport, and immigrated to get as far away from that person as I could. Very manipulative person. Knows everything, but can't be bothered to go out and get a job.

[cherylmiller]

When I met my narc husband he was pretending to be a Christian, attending a church. I now think they attend churches to find empaths/new supply as well as for being among people when everyone else in their lives abandon them so they are not completely alone. He even insisted on praying over food in a restaurant. Of course, after the wedding he no longer felt these things were important. But he certainly complained when he thought I didn't "behave as a good Christian wife" should. The narc's scope for abusing the spouse by using their faith is huge.

[kayeraven]

My ex-husband was a non-denominational pastor, who had everyone around him convinced he could walk on water, but would abuse me and our children in every way imaginable behind closed doors. He committed elder abuse against his own mother to force her to put her assets in both her name and his, and badgered her into changing her Will so that only he got everything. Meanwhile, he acted like Billy Graham in public and told anyone who would listen that "his wife was emotionally ill, bless her heart, " estranging and isolating me from any support in the community. When I finally did divorce him, he declared that I was going to "destroy the church" because of it and that I was "damned." Some day he will be held accountable for his actions (as will we all), but it was interesting to live with a man who knew all the words in the Bible, but had no idea what they meant. Never take for granted that the person in the pulpit is mentally healthy.

[lindamac]

My ex is walking the Camino right now to be spiritually evolved. I think he is surrounded by a new supply to listen to his victim story for 5 weeks.

[magickmagazine]

Here’s one for you, I’ve been operating a spiritual awareness community for 33 years & running a charity for 20 -Lastweek I get a request to meet with somebody who is opening up a spiritual community and using our exact business name and they want me to come and run it for them for free – because.. “we are spiritually aligned” in inverted commas – when I turned up to the meeting and tell them that they are stealing my business name, trying to trade on our good will by passing themselves off as us and therefore they can not have my permission to use our name – they then tried to tell me how Unspiritual I am – and they are going to destroy me – nice start to setting up a new spiritual business isn’t it ? ha ha ha ha – yes my lawyer is handling this for me now

[Missjronan]

Years ago I started studying different types of healing and getting involved with spiritual groups and I met so many egotistical, entitled people that I actually stopped. I’d rather learn in private than open myself up to be vulnerable to people like this. I also experienced sexual harassment from men that were supposed to be healers.

[Matrinique]

Never be afraid to consider someone full of shit.
Kindness and respect are more real and have more tangible value than any of the trappings of spirituality.
The questions aren't, "do they meditate?" "Are they vegan?" "Did they read all those spirituality books?"
The questions are, "do they listen?" "Are they respectful?" "Do they make excuses for bad behavior?"
Learn to look at the real stuff, not the superficial.

[Julia_BH]

I’d love to hear about “Christian” narcissists. My mother is one. It’s never, ever made sense to me. The best way I can describe her is she holds a Bible in one hand, and a knife is the other, and it depends on who you are which side you’ll see (read that somewhere once).

[eyesopenwide]

I worked at a Tulsa wellness center as a massage therapist where the owner is a malignant narcissist. One day she sent all the employees a letter stating that “we have been chosen to raise the spiritual consciousness of the city of Tulsa” explaining how we had “higher spiritual energies”. She also claimed to channel high level spiritual teachers. It didn’t go over so well one day when she made us all sit and listen to her channel. On this occasion she started speaking in an altered voice as she ‘channeled’. I couldn’t contain my laughter at her ridiculousness. I was there to work not to be a devotee. She hated me but at the time I was one of two top earners for her. She made my life hell. One day as I was cleaning a room after a massage she came in and told me she could “smell my karma all the way down the hall”. I said “what does karma smell like?” To which she replied “you ought to know this yourself in this line of work” to which I replied “I think you’re smelling the onions I ate for lunch”. There were many incidents and she made everyone’s life miserable unless you behaved like a mindless sycophant. One employee likened working there to being in a cult. She would constantly tell us that we wouldn’t be as successful if we left her employ. I swore to never put up with such a thing ever again.