Radical Honesty: The Key to Escaping Self Deception and Aligning with Spirit

Dear friends,

This week on Threads, I dove head first into debates about multi level marketing schemes (MLMs). If you know me, you’ll know that I despise the way they take advantage of people and sell them a dream.

I have always been triggered by MLMs, cults and similar organisations. (Fun fact: I put my interest in cults on my dating profile back in the day). And it’s because I was subject to so much control as a child and young adult, which negatively impacted by mind and my intuition.

But here is the thing, guess who attacked me the most for posting my thoughts? The very people who are embroiled in these schemes.

They don’t see themselves as victims - even though they are. And if they become successful they will deceive others and effectively become the new prison guards.

So why is this relevant to us as spiritual people?

Because it reveals a certain truth about the nature of humanity. We are the first to deceive ourselves. In fact, we deceive ourselves before anyone else can deceive us.

Our inability to be radically honest with ourselves about who we are, our motivations, our shadows opens us up to further deception.

I’ll give you a personal example. I grew up with a mother who suffered from paranoid delusions due to trauma. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise that this was the case until I was in my 20s, because when you grow up with this, you think it’s normal (especially if you are severely isolated, which I was).

But it was also because I didn’t want to face the reality of life with a mentally ill parent. It would mean so much of what I’d been taught about the world was untrue.

It would mean that I would have to rebuild myself and my identity.

It was only when I was willing to deal with that, to truly face it, that I had the confidence to ask Spirit “Show me the truth. Show me what I haven’t been able to see”.

And of course, the horrid charade came crashing down in my mind, forcing an awakening of epic proportions.

I am still reeling from it years later, but I can tell you that I do not regret having the veil lifted from my eyes.

*If you want to escape deception, and hear Spirit more easily, you need to be willing to face the truth whatever the consequences, whatever that truth might be*

It’s time for radical honesty.

Here are the journal prompts to contemplate this week:

• Where in my life am I willing to hear the truth and where am I still unwilling to do so?

• What would happen if I got radically honest with myself? How would my life change?

Try this affirmation or write your own: I am ready to hear the truth about my life and I trust that the truth will bring me good things

With love

Lola