When we are spiritually bypassing, we often use the goal of awakening or
liberation to rationalize what I call premature transcendence: trying to rise above
the raw and messy side of our humanness before we have fully faced and made
peace with it. And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or dismiss
relative human needs, feelings, psychological problems, relational difficulties,
and developmental deficits. I see this as an “occupational hazard” of the spiritual
path, in that spirituality does involve a vision of going beyond our current
karmic situation.