Bring wisdom back to spirituality.

By Lisa Li

These past few years have shown me just how delusional the spiritual world has become.

From tripping out on woo-woo “dragon mother” concepts, to the “no bad vibes” crowd preaching love and light while running from anything that triggers them... to others drowning in conspiracy theories, projecting their disempowerment and unresolved shadows onto faraway countries, wars they barely understand, or the so-called “elite” who control the world.

Frankly, it’s embarrassing.

What happened to spirituality being grounded in wisdom?

True wisdom — the kind that holds ourselves and others accountable.

The kind that understands we are all interconnected, yet doesn’t turn a blind eye to the horrors of the world.

Wisdom rooted in integrity, in morality, in truth.

I’ve witnessed so many people — those sitting in ceremony, serving medicine, facilitating healing — completely off their rocker with conspiracy theories. Supporting dangerous causes out of blind naivety. Causes that are using the suffering of others for clout, just like we’ve seen before — children maimed for emotional impact, used to pull heartstrings and funds from well-meaning foreigners. It’s happening again, only on a much larger scale.

Huge amounts of divisive propoganda flying across the internet and everybody just eating it right up.

Good intentions aren’t good enough. You’ve heard it before: the road to hell is paved with them.

We must open our eyes.

Evolution requires clarity. Not spiritual bypassing.

Not another mask that hides pain and darkness under a glittery veil of positivity.

We transform through truth — by shining the light of consciousness on what’s been hidden.

But too often, I see people avoiding that truth — laughing it off, defending their egos, pushing it all away. Or even saying things like I choose no side when the side of truth & morality is what is needed to be taken.

It’s not only ugly to witness — it’s deeply worrying.

I thought we were more awake than this.

It’s time to face the uncomfortable truths within us, so we can bring real truth into the world.

A truth that is lived — humbled, clear, and aware.

Not something we heard in a podcast or saw on an Instagram reel.

Not something we naively cling to because it makes us feel like a “good person.”

We need discernment — to know a lived truth from a lie. To stay curious. To keep learning.

The world is far darker than the love-and-light bubbles can imagine.

And deep down, many know that.

But they keep the darkness at arm’s length, terrified of it — until, I fear, it one day forces its way in via a huge reckoning.

The world won’t heal through imagined beings of light.

As Carl Jung said: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

That’s why I do shadow work. I hold space for people to face themselves — their shadows and their blockages.

Because the refusal to face the darkness of the world, or reducing it to simplistic “good vs bad” ego stories, needs a serious dismantling.

If you can’t see yourself in the worst of the worst — you're not done with your inner work.

We all have the capacity to be the “good guy” and the “bad guy.”

Until we can recognize and integrate those parts of ourselves, we’ll keep projecting them onto the world… and we won’t be of sound enough mind to see anything clearly.

We need to wake up to truth.

To wisdom.

To what real spirituality means.

Becoming whole.

Becoming holy.

Not fake.

Not phoney.

— Lisa x