Hey James — really enjoyed this episode. One thing that caught me off guard: your endorsement of Reality Transurfing.
From what I’ve seen, the method tends to promote spiritual bypassing. It encourages people to redirect attention away from pain, downplay emotional charge as “excess potential,” and shift lifelines without addressing the unresolved material shaping their current state.
That said, it sounds like you’ve found a way to work with RT without falling into that trap. I’d be curious to hear more about how you’ve reconciled its core teachings with emotional integration.
Hi Don. I have to say I don’t see any kind of issue with that, but that might be because I just see it as a tool/tools not as a doctrine.
That said, I also think there is an opposite problem to what people call spiritual bypassing which you might call ‘psychological bypassing’:
Getting wrapped up in a particular psychological paradigm and tearing it as doctrine is as limiting/problematic as getting caught up in any specific spiritual paradigm and treating it as doctrine.
To answer your last question - I’m not sure what you mean exactly by the term ‘emotional integration’ but I have worked with a lot of self-development paradigms over the years and have found that contradictions usually only appear at the surface level. Things that work have to be working with the nature of things, and the nature of things cannot contradict itself.
I will also say that I am most certainly not an ‘everyone needs therapy’ adherent. Some therapies could be said to encourage a focus that itself becomes pathological if mismanaged or over-rehearsed.
Anyhows, there’s a fair bit I could say on that so it might be an episode itself.
Hi James - thank you for your reply. Yes, an episode on that topic would be excellent.
I've just started learning and practicing Transurfing myself because years ago I tried to learn it but couldn't make any sense of it - but when you mentioned it in this podcast episode a lightbulb went off and I felt drawn to study it again. So thank you for mentioning it.
I'm wondering if the Russian to English translations are poor and miss and/or mistranslate his actual ideas.
Anyway, I've been using AI to translate his 78 Days book and I've found it to be very helpful in understanding Zeland's work - which I'm finding I love more and more each time I dig a little deeper into what he's saying. And that I don't think he's unintentionally promoting spiritual bypassing or shadow avoidance in his work.
Thanks again for another excellent podcast episode and I look forward to the next one. Cheers!
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Hey James — really enjoyed this episode. One thing that caught me off guard: your endorsement of Reality Transurfing.
From what I’ve seen, the method tends to promote spiritual bypassing. It encourages people to redirect attention away from pain, downplay emotional charge as “excess potential,” and shift lifelines without addressing the unresolved material shaping their current state.
That said, it sounds like you’ve found a way to work with RT without falling into that trap. I’d be curious to hear more about how you’ve reconciled its core teachings with emotional integration.
Hi Don. I have to say I don’t see any kind of issue with that, but that might be because I just see it as a tool/tools not as a doctrine.
That said, I also think there is an opposite problem to what people call spiritual bypassing which you might call ‘psychological bypassing’:
Getting wrapped up in a particular psychological paradigm and tearing it as doctrine is as limiting/problematic as getting caught up in any specific spiritual paradigm and treating it as doctrine.
To answer your last question - I’m not sure what you mean exactly by the term ‘emotional integration’ but I have worked with a lot of self-development paradigms over the years and have found that contradictions usually only appear at the surface level. Things that work have to be working with the nature of things, and the nature of things cannot contradict itself.
I will also say that I am most certainly not an ‘everyone needs therapy’ adherent. Some therapies could be said to encourage a focus that itself becomes pathological if mismanaged or over-rehearsed.
Anyhows, there’s a fair bit I could say on that so it might be an episode itself.
Hi James - thank you for your reply. Yes, an episode on that topic would be excellent.
I've just started learning and practicing Transurfing myself because years ago I tried to learn it but couldn't make any sense of it - but when you mentioned it in this podcast episode a lightbulb went off and I felt drawn to study it again. So thank you for mentioning it.
I'm wondering if the Russian to English translations are poor and miss and/or mistranslate his actual ideas.
Anyway, I've been using AI to translate his 78 Days book and I've found it to be very helpful in understanding Zeland's work - which I'm finding I love more and more each time I dig a little deeper into what he's saying. And that I don't think he's unintentionally promoting spiritual bypassing or shadow avoidance in his work.
Thanks again for another excellent podcast episode and I look forward to the next one. Cheers!