The Distortion of Truth

What's Happened to the Spiritual Community?

This essay is part of a small series looking at the greater spiritual community in current (political) times and the separation observed within. This essay addresses the importance of discernment and trusting your soul’s truth while reclaiming unity, love, and integrity on our collective spiritual journey.

I’ve watched, listened, and tried to understand.

I’ve searched for clarity, sat with my own discomfort, and questioned myself—deeply.

And yet, no matter how much I try to see what others claim to see, I can’t. Because what I see is not enlightenment. It’s not Christ Consciousness. It’s not love.

It’s distortion. And it’s dangerous.

There’s an idea circulating in the spiritual community—one that I can’t seem to reconcile, no matter how hard I try. It’s the belief that the current President is a “light bringer,” a necesary savior instead of a catalyst stirring the collective shadow.

In many ways, yes, the chaos he brings is revealing deep distortions in our systems, in people, in consciousness itself. But where I think people get lost is in believing that he (and his administration) is the solution, rather than the dysfunction itself that’s being exposed.

Destruction does precede creation, but destruction without conscious, compassionate rebuilding just leaves ruin.

The belief that he’s ushering in a 'golden age' feels, to me, like bypassing—a refusal to acknowledge the suffering that's happening right now in favor of a promised utopia.

The truth is, that utopia—a New Earth—can’t come from anything external. It comes from within us—all of us.

We are the New Earth consciousness, but that shift can only happen collectively when we consciously choose to face the current reality with open eyes, heal the divisions within us, and take responsibility for the world we’re creating together.

This isn’t just about one person, administration, or political party. It’s about the shadow of the larger spiritual community and how certain figures, who claim to embody unity and divine truth, have endorsed someone whose actions contradict the very principles they preach. I see spiritual teachers with massive followings—people who teach unity, divine truth, and Christ Consciousness—aligning themselves with a man whose entire presence has been marked by division, corruption, and power-seeking.

And yet, I see the very real harm that’s unfolded in this wake: policies that strip people of dignity, rhetoric that emboldens racism and misogyny, and a collective energy that feeds off of fear, anger, and blind allegiance.

And when I or anyone else questions this—when we say, What about the suffering? What about the oppression? What about the way people are turning against their own neighbors, their own communities, their own highest values?—we’re met with a cold, dismissive answer: You don’t see the bigger picture. You don’t understand. You’re caught in the illusion.

This is gaslighting on a mass scale. And it is breaking people.

How do you hold onto your faith when those who claim to be the most enlightened are the very ones justifying harm? How do you keep trusting your own discernment when their voices are louder, when they have the platforms, when they are praised for their “higher perspective” while you’re dismissed as naive, blind, or even complicit in the illusion?

I’ve wrestled with this deeply. I’ve questioned whether or not I’m missing something, looked at every angle. I’ve wondered if my own grounding in the human experience—believing in the bridge of embodied spritituality—has made me unable to see the “truth” they claim to hold.

But no. If anything, it’s made me see more clearly. It’s connected me more deeply to my own soul and personal relationship with God and spirituality.

Because spirituality isn’t about escaping reality.

It isn’t about transcending suffering while letting others bear the weight of it.

It’s about being fully present in the reality of our shared human experience.

True unity doesn’t mean bypassing harm. It doesn’t mean saying, “Everything is happening for a reason,” while ignoring the very real suffering of people losing healthcare, experiencing increased violence, or struggling under policies that create more division and hardship.

Christ Consciousness is about radical love, about supporting each other. To stand in that energy is to stand for truth—not for an ideology that justifies harm in the name of a supposed greater good.

True spirituality is about embodiment—bringing the divine into the human experience in a way that heals, nurtures, and creates real transformation.

We’re in a time when truth is being fragmented, where people are being tested in ways they don’t even realize. For some, the need for a “savior”—for a strong figure to project hope onto—is overpowering their discernment. It happens in cults, throughout history, and in human psychology over and over again. People mistake control for order, destruction for necessary upheaval, and corruption for truth.

Yeshua understood this.

He didn’t bypass suffering in the name of a “greater plan.” He didn’t look at oppression and say, “Just trust that this is all part of awakening.”

He called out the hypocrites—the ones who claimed to be holy but were complicit in harm. He didn’t just teach love in soft whispers—he embodied it, even when it meant standing alone, even when it meant persecution.

He challenged the status quo, expressed righteous rage, and stood in solidarity with the marginalized. He spoke truth, even when it made others uncomfortable, even when it caused them to turn against him. He never confused control with peace, and he didn’t side with the powerful—instead, he disrupted the old systems by embracing and including all, showing that true change comes from acceptance and love for everyone.

Not all destruction leads to creation.

Sometimes, it just destroys.

So no, I won’t be gaslit into believing that somehow I’m just not conscious enough or “spiritual” enough. I won’t allow my faith to be twisted into something unrecognizable. I won’t stand by while spirituality is hijacked by those who justify oppression in the name of awakening.

I feel the weight of current times—the injustice, the exhaustion, the heartbreak of watching people choose deception while believing they’re enlightened.

And yet, even in that heartbreak, even in that fire, there’s love.

Love for humanity. Love for my fellow brothers and sisters. Love for this earth.

Because I see the unity that’s rising, the strength of those standing together, resisting oppression, and challenging the very forces that seek to divide us. It’s in this collective resistance—this shared commitment to truth, love, and justice—that the true transformation is unfolding.

I don’t know where I stand in the spiritual community anymore.

And maybe that’s okay.

Maybe I’m not meant to align with something that’s become so distorted.

Because I know the real shift is about choosing the soul’s clarity over the world’s illusion, choosing unity over division, and taking care of each other in inclusive ways versus creating more separation and falling into yet another false savior narrative.

And maybe, just maybe, this is why my voice—and yours—is so important right now. Because people are searching for truth in the middle of this chaos. And if the loudest voices belong to those who have submitted to distortion, then we, too, have to be willing to speak up.

If you’re feeling this too—if you’re watching what’s happening and feeling the same injustice, the same dissonance, the same sense that something is deeply, deeply wrong—you’re not alone.

You’re not crazy.

You haven’t lost your way.

Now is the time to hold firm to your truth. Stand in it, with the courage to face what’s uncomfortable, with the strength to confront the distortion, and with the unwavering belief that love and truth will guide us through.

Truth will outlast the illusion. And so will we.