Unconditional Love or Narcissistic Need
Unconditional Love or Narcissistic Need Practices can turn into religions, practices like new age tools and even yoga. In fact, religions usually start out as a Practice and then morph as leaders emerge and the religion is commercialized and an industry profit driven power structure is constructed. As soon as power, prestige and money come into play, many (if not all) Spiritual Practices can become corrupted in order to attract and keep followers who will support a religion with the hopes of redemption, rather than doing the work of Spiritual Cultivation themselves. Religion is where you take on the beliefs of someone else’s experience; a Practice is where you have the personal experiences yourself that may or may not match what your religion tells you to believe or feel. You can have safely have spiritual experiences under the tutelage of a Teacher as long as that Teacher is not telling you “what” you “should” be feeling or experiencing (like, “that is your heart chakra opening”) or