Spirituality and the Spiritual Ego 

Another pattern I noticed quite a lot of the past two years is the spiritual ignorant or spiritual hypocrite. People following a spiritual path, sharing the teachings of a spiritual being like Buddha...the middle path, you are your own master, you are 100% responsible for you etc, when faced with adversity completely abandoned the teachings to follow unenlightened people/organizations, and implemented policies that caused harm and division. They allowed fear to dictate their lives, and instead of taking responsibility for it used emotional manipulation to make everyone else conform. It definitely opened my eyes to the myriad of false prophets out there and that the only true guidance comes from within. Also, not to judge as we are all waking up from this illusion. Thanks Richard for a great video.

43:14 "and beware of knowing stuff, you know." 😂

Thank you so much perfect timing always

Beautifully uncomfortable to hear. Appreciate the invitation to take a look at ourselves. Thank you ♥️

I recently left a group of who I thought was open minded spiritual individuals, over the last couple years certain things seemed off. Your video hit all my concerns on the head.

Loved this. Resonated with all the costumes...... sorta cringing while LOL too and embracing it all!

Feeling so grateful for this wisdom thank you thank you thank you

love this list :* I've been in all the traps 😂aaaand claw my way out to fall in another lol. love to all at any rate xxxoo kolee

Ingenious ❤️🙏. Thanks so very much. Blessings 🌷

Thank you Richard , blessings to you.

Thanks Richard - so refreshing. The Escapist, yes, that's me too. I recognize many others in myself and my co-travelers. But reminding myself, We are all walking each other home (a quote from Ram Das). And you are ending the video with warmth, love and compassion. Much love and gratitude

I haven't listened to this valuable wisdom...in awhile.... Laughed about the negative comments...Love and light...Blessings....🙏🌻✨💙✨🌻🙏

Thank you so much - very interesting as well heartwarming :-)

Best advice is find them in me and let them go…on my path to perfecting my feather-weight heart💗

Love every word Richard Rudd thank u

I recognize in myself a spiritual escapist, traveller. Beautiful Intention: To go down and in❤ To be here fully. To really own it. All of the human experience. Bringing and inviting the spirit down and in. Embodied, experienced. "Enlightment is not in front of you. If you slow down, maybe it ll catch you up." 🙏✨

I love how you just invite us to be curious about our thoughts, our bodies, and our Beingness. Thank you 🙏🏻

This has been seriously entertaining! Perfect balance 🤔😃

Wow. I recognize myself in many of these. Thank you Richard 🙏🏼

Think this is my favorite of your videos O have watched...thank you!!!

wow very insightful, one never stops learning, blessings, Jollean

I find this sharing to be most refreshing! I recognize many of these examples within me as I travel my path and hearing You (Richard) talking about them has brought new meaning to the words allow, accept, and embrace. In 2020 I got “there’s an element of truth in everything I hear” and it’s changed my listening of others. I am grateful for your sharing and example of being the GK principles in action.

So I‘m not a native English speaker, had to listen twice to this brilliant list, laughing loud finding me in several descriptions and try not to stick on it. While listening second time, looked at a beautiful blossoming wild plum tree at forests border, where I actually live. The sunny side of this tree is overboarding with beautiful blossoms and the shadowy side seems to have only rare blossoms, but, they seem to shine brighter, cause of their rareness in plum trees backyard, than the bunch of blossoms on sunny side… reminds me, picking out the pieces, does not mean to see the whole beauty of this tiny beautiful blossoming tree in his surrounding, stretching to the sunny garden site and being part of the forest itself… While listening to your list this second time I realized the beauty of this tree and my heart grows to it. Aren’t we living in a beautiful world? Just got a glimpse of being part of this beauty. Thank you dear Richard for your mindful and heartful guidance. And for your sense of humour, love, MaryAnn

Enlightenment… not attained but not not attained. So profound. I love you.

Thank you so much for your transmissions Richard ✨

Thank you

Only a happy person has a good life... follow a true guru.. 😇😇

thank you! great contribution!

Thank you for sharing your wisdom & experience Richard. It is constructive and comes from the heart. I am now a little more aware of some of the ruts I get bogged down in ❤️🙏

Timeless fluid gold. Thank you deeply

Really enjoyed this. Loved the humour sprinkled throughout. Thanks, Richard.

Amazing amazing AMAAAAZIIIING! I saw myself in like half of these :P

I like the point that it’s about the teaching, not the teacher. It helps to make sure our “I”dentity is in check lest our “id”-entity becomes our sense of identity.

Fun, clear and wise. I loved it! Thank you, Richard.

Just found you love and I’m feeling so Blessed! Just bought Gene Keys today! 🙏🏻☺️

Excellent advice and insight.

Thanks for your beautiful, authentic wisdom! ❤️ 🙏

Thank you Richard 🙏✨

Thanks sooo much. Only ❤, that's "it"🙏❤

Thank you Richard!!!

Thank you so much

Very hot topic for me. Thank you!

This is excellent. Appreciate your personal stories, examples and your lovely authenticity. I see your wisdom and the deep work you have done and what you are truly committed to. I'm right there with you in being genuine and authentic with myself. Much Love and Gratitude.

Love your work, Richard! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Hilarious, brilliant and truthful

This is so brilliant! I resonate with each of these identities... laughed out loud throughout this entire video, the many costumes of my Spiritual Ego being totally outed. Thank you.

Very touching and enlightening video, thank you!

Richard thank you …

I don't do this in general, but when I'm with people I don't know to do something like take a course I'm interested in, my social ego immediately assesses and decides who it thinks already knows more than I do and who I already know more than. After that, my spiritual ego kicks in and chastises me for being judgmental and I feel the negativity of both low frequency responses in my body which inspires me to learn how to be freer of them. Recently then, I realized that if I consciously accept the 'need' in me to still use an ego strategy when it’s triggered, without agreeing or disagreeing with 'why' the strategy is believed needed, then the part of me relying on it to feel accepted and safe in the world feels loved and safe with me. That hadn't been true for a very long time, and being divided in myself for most of my life is what kept my younger selves' sense of not being safe and not belonging anywhere in the world so active in me. So now, I'm finally becoming the Home I've always longed for in which all of my more and less shadowed selves are unconditionally loved and supported. And in turn, they've been moving out of their shadowed ways of expressing themselves into living their/our/my gifts, not as separate selves as much anymore but as life simply flowing through me in response to life. After watching this video, I now see that it’s also alright, and even good, to continue discerning how I am different from others in terms of what we know and do. It’s the need to identify myself and others by those terms that's felt as physically wrong or bad in me because that’s the part of this that isn’t true about us as the human beings we can be. And for the first time, thanks to Richard, I see how each of our ‘I’s are like beautifully innocent or pure Lights of consciousness, each come to live differently embodied lives purposefully for all of us and the evolution of all of Life. And really seeing and feeling that is very freeing for me. I can love my/our once-needed, human ego strategies; the parts of me/us that still need those strategies; what I/we have learned about how to live with each other in this world that we can hold onto while finally shifting into identifying with the ‘I’ I/we really are. Thank you so much as always, Richard

Love this Richard. The easiest way I've found to avoid these ego traps (many of which I've had experience with) is to be what I call a "heathen". It's to live simply and naturally. It is to live according to your needs, wants, and desires. If we can fully accept and live out who we are and what is truly inside of us, the love and connection we feel to our self becomes an expression of our connection to god, and then the need that causes these ego traps no longer exists.

Dear Richard, thank you! This was great!

Beautiful

Thank you for your precious advices to us all God bless you

Wow loved this!! I could tick a lot of the different spiritual boxes!! Great to reflect upon with compassion 💗

So grateful to hear that from you! I really appreciated 🙏🏻💛✨🇵🇹

Thank you for this message. I find this helpful for my personal life journey at this time.

Thank you this was great

I so enjoy your energy. Thank you for your work.

Absolutely brilliant❤ thank you so much!

Thankyou so much sir for this wonderful eye opening interaction, at least not i have found a way of understanding a few things about myself and my traditional healing journey that kept me frustrated and awake at night. I can happily say that now i have found one of the many steps of the beginning paths of understanding how to guide myself into this journey that i have been on ever since i was a child. Thank you so much and may the Good God and Ancestors keep on blessing you.

This made me smile.:)

Excellent! Helpful words to help us stay grounded. Thank you for sharing 💕

Inspired to see the mirror within myself... as always when digesting your beautiful material. Thank you! You wear your costumes with integrity, but i say this to help others view this wisely and not to beef you up... may you be well Richard.

Dear Richard, #negative reviews: I often read them first & only 😁 here's why: 1) where I surf, they are fewer negative than positive ones -> already says something and less to read 2) bad reviews are often extensively written, describing in minute detail - now comes the decisive point - aspects I regard as completely irrelevant!! It is amazing what aspects people find worth commenting... So negative reviews for me often are one reason more to buy a product/go somewhere/do something!

Loved this!! 💙

Reverence to all you do! Brilliant, Wonderful. Unity Consciousness right here in 50 min. gratitude!

This is such an important subject, thank you for the insights

amazing video richard! exploring different perspectives on these traps along the path in a such a loving way. the conspiracy one triggered me a little, something to contemplate!

Thanks so much for this video!!! I resonate a lot with many of the "kind of egos"! 🙃 I really appreciate your time and teachings! Your voice is sooo soothing! Send you love and light! 💚

The middle way..... I love #4, but love them all. Such a rich contemplation! Thankful for everything you put out into the world and how it serves me to go deeper and deeper into my awareness and patterns. So so grateful for my passion for the Gene Keys which has lit up my enthusiastic view for the contemplation of my life!!!

Thank you for sharing this perspective 🤍

Escapist or escape artist - that’s me 😆 Really appreciate this message. And really, really appreciated Richard saying, “Come say it to my face.” Respect for him on a whole other level now b:/c he spoke to my radiance, 49.6! I’m always down for the good fight too 💪🏾🙏🏾🌻

Waitinggg..tooooo 😊.. blessings to th entire planet and sunlight love vibes .from here Logroño 💖😘

Thank you, many Blessings to you and your family as well and good wishes for the new year.

Thank you Richard for the clarity. We are each a Unique Expression of All That "IS". I appreciate your wisdom.

thank you.....

I am so glad I found you...thank you for your work...

I loved it ! How hilarious, dangerous, helpless, powerful, sweet, ugly, magic and profane and so much more we all are, were and will be. My hope is the more we check ourself in the mirror, the less harmful energy we impose on others. Thanks anyway for your insights and that mirror, watching a great opera haha

Richard thank you. I recently had an awakening experience and your voice was in my mind throughout … ‘Make music an integral part of your life’ and ‘trust others more than you trust yourself’. These statements were extremely significant! You’re an angel and I send you so much love x

Thank you 🥰

Thank you!

So good! I can relate to the great majority of them. I'd add a spiritual trap. The resistance and judgment to any spiritual path. Just relax. Traps are part of the path as well lol 😂. It wouldn't be this fun without them.. Remember that you are loved either way. Sending love your way

This was a wonderful and powerful message. Many thanks!

Love this!!!

Very good. Yes I can admit I have played at least a few of these roles, and even caught myself at it and had a good laugh at myself. Appreciate this thanku

Yes, heard the Osho story tooo...the power of devotion...amazingly cool topic...thank you! I am seriously funny...hihi ! This video is GENIUS. Orgasmic!

Absolutely fantastic love it thank you so much it is very refreshing to feel your heart resonating with my heart I am a counselor and feel very similar to your contemplations God Bless💖😇

I love you. I’ve just started following your pebbles and beginning to truly see me. Thank you❤

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These are great!!! I love your honor and kindness Richard! Thank you for sharing these.

The mascarade ball of life 🙏🏻

Love it, just got a little caught up on all the "You knows". Like... one after another... not easy to listen.

Beautiful, views and how you express them, you thank you for speaking about this.

Wow thank you Richard this is positively invaluable for me 🌈🤗

Love this knowledge❤

Your work has been life changing for me ! I appreciate you and everything you offer. Thank you for making the most amazing wisdom I have came across in my life (your work !) so affordable and accessible .

I’m wondering if those “ people” who are against your books or teaching are the MASONS???? Could be ???🤔 We know how they are afraid of light knowledge and love . They will do anything to ruin destroy someone like you ! We love you , we appreciate you and what you have done for our society! Much appreciate it, Sir Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

wonderful, thank you for the wisdom :-)

Very deep spiritual insight.. #5 I resonate with I’m humbly grateful 😇 For your massages.

Man...I so thank you tonight...sitting here and laughing with you..and leave you after this video..smiling...its so BIG...Namaste RR