Pure Brutality

[Belacqua]

This is why people who work on their spirit are attempting to overcome the conditions you describe. 

They feel they are more aware of reality than those stuck in a materialist egoistic condition. 

The means to this state are often uncomfortable.

But they aren't, in fact they are even less aware of reality than most people, the spiritual people are completely living in some fantasy world in their head. I mean shit, we all have fantasies, but this is something else. Spiritual people completely reject the world as it actually is, and instead choose to believe they know a better way. They don't, but they all very much think they do. I had a therapist who was that kind of person, I trusted him for too long. I finally realized all he wanted was money, and stopped seeing him after that. I surmised that he was simply a money grubbing douche after thinking about how, after seeing him for many years, my mom was still the very same insufferable person she always was, so clearly therapy wasn't doing anything for her. But the therapist kept taking her money, and I'm sure he figured out at some point that therapy wasn't helping my mom, he just wanted her to keep coming back so he could make more money. I wanted to believe some people were better than that, but no. This dude clearly thought so highly of himself and was in fact just as much of an asshole as anyone else, if not worse. I have since refused to have any more therapy sessions with any therapist, I don't trust these people anymore. I shouldn't have trusted any of them to begin with. I am baffled at how literally ALL of the pertinent lessons a person learns in life are negative ones.

I have no doubt that many people who consider themselves spiritual are foolish. It is an extremely easy way to fool oneself. 

And I'm very sorry that one of them caused you harm.

We live in a time when any kind of spiritual effort is extremely difficult. 

Traditionally it has required extreme discipline, trust in a master or some kind of well-worn tradition, and the hard work of giving up many things that get in the way. I don't see how these great traditions could possibly work as weekly therapy-for-pay. They're incompatible.