Are spiritually awakened people psychopathic? The few awakened people I have met including myself are very anti-social and ruthless.

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Anyone who tells you that spiritual awakening turns you into this infallible bastion of caring and generosity either doesn’t know what they’re talking about or is lying to you. Spirituality makes it easier to discard your ‘false’ self. And guess what, your ‘true’ self might just be a bit of a bastard.

There are two aspects to spiritual development. You’ve got what I call ‘perceptive responsiveness’ and ‘level of surrender’. The popular understanding of spirituality focuses primarily on the latter, and the legacy of Christianity convinces us that only surrender in the Christian fashion, i.e. surrender to a caring, generous deity, is true spiritual growth.

This is what I call ‘definitive belief’, in another word, dogma. The world operates a certain way, our minds want to see it operating according to what we believe is true. Our beliefs can only change reality so far as we can will them to. When and where we stop willing, the world defaults back to operating the way it always has. We define the world to operate in a certain way, and we control our perception and understanding to preserve it.

We believe that only the just and pure are spiritually awakened, and so whenever we see a just and pure person, we see spiritual growth in that person. It’s our perceptive responsiveness operating to reify reality. It’s good at getting us what we want out of life, but not good at teaching us what we should be wanting.

The mechanisms of growth, perceptive responsiveness and surrender, can turn people into saints. But only if that person wanted to be a saint in the first place. If they didn’t, then working on responding faster and stronger to the things they perceive, i.e. perceptive responsiveness, and surrendering to those things that they are perceiving, what we call awakening, produces a person uninhibited by the things they can’t see. Their spiritual senses are honed and added to the things perceived.

And there’s nothing grand or magical about perception. There’s a greater math to the universe that drives outcomes we describe as ‘good’. But that math operates at a higher level than the individual. God uses individual self-interest to drive good outcomes for all. You can simply be who you are, warts and all, and while you might not exactly be a good person, working on your spirituality does allow you to be a conduit through which the deity can work.