The Fake Spiritual Seeker

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In a message dated 12/29/2005 5:14:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,

epston writes:

 

> The Fake Spiritual Seeker

>

> The fake spiritual seeker pretend to be looking for truth, the way,

> enlightenment. But he is only playing a game. He is only pretending to

> look,

> actually, he is intensely competitive and is involved in a complex game of

> one-ups-man-ship. He is trying to win his game by frustrating and fooling

> the person he

> is talking too. Actually, he is trying to get attention and thrives on the

> energy that comes from others as he wiggles and waggles and asks and answers

>

> questions.

> No answer will ever satisfy him, because he is not looking for answers he is

>

> competing for attention.

> The persona he presents is not real, his search for what he is looking for

> is

> unreal. He is pretending, and inside, deep inside is the one who says,

> Look at me, how clever I am and they can’t see me or catch me as I dance and

>

> sway and keep sucking up attention.

> They are energy parasites who prey on the helpers, the persons who are

> fooled

> into thinking the parasite wants and needs assistance and who dives in to

> help them, but are captured by this clever and concealed energy parasite.

> Inside, this person is a hater, a despiser of others and of himself.

> The irony of his position is that if he wins, and is undiscovered as a

> fraud,

> he loses. He loses a real relationship that can come from being helped by

> someone and could feel gratitude and the owner of some new information or

> direction.

> Instead, he continues to feel alone, cut off from any real relationship as

> he

> continues to pretend he needs something or someone, yet inside, despises his

>

> helper as a victim who is fooled by his disguise, and himself for being a

> false person.

> Eventually his helper runs out of steam and gives up, and this fake

> spiritual

> seeker goes on to find other victims to futilely try to help him while he

> just sucks and absorbs their attention and energy. This will go on as long

> as he

> can find victims or eats himself up, absorbs his own identity in his

> self-absorption, isolation and loneliness commits suicide in despair, or

> gets lost in

> alcoholism or drug use as he tried to blot out his rather sick, despairing

> state of mind.

> These online groups are great prowling places for these characters, and it

> is

> best to recognize them quickly, and stay away from them. Otherwise, you

> will

> be another victim in the parade of helpers he uses and despises.

>

> Larry Epston

> www.epston.com

>