Qualities of McSpirituality, Its Bullshit and Its Dangers
McSpirituality justifies and even spiritualizes self-obsession, prioritizing one’s own emotions and individuality over the needs and realities of a group. McSpirituality misuses psychology terms like ‘trauma’, ‘trigger’, and ‘narcissist’ to describe ordinary discomfort and someone who holds a difference of opinion. McSpirituality confuses spiritual terms for the spiritual practice. McSpirituality confuses spiritual tools for the spiritual practice. McSpirituality looks to complex, intricate spiritual teachings, reduces them to decontextualized clear cut “truths”, and then sells them as tidy “answers” to complex, intricate life problems.