Why Some Spiritual People Look Strange

As I now started organising small spirituality workshops, I got connected with more spiritual teachers/spiritual people. I also had some new-to-spirituality people attend my meetups and some of them were surprised (not in a good way) about how some spiritual people behave/look.

I did notice this fact myself too. Some tend to behave in a way that is very far from what other people would consider the common sense behaviour. Some spiritual people live in their own worlds and don’t care in any way about how they might appear to others. This scares off some of the less spiritually aware people because they don’t want to become like the ones that act in weird ways.

Well let me tell you why some spiritual people act this way. The reason they behave in a strange manner is because they lose balance. They no longer focus on their body or the mind, all their focus is directed to their spiritual development. That’s not healthy, because they still live in a physical world where they have the body and the mind.

That’s the reason I always tend to seek for the balance myself.

When I find myself getting too much involved in spirituality, here’s what happens to me:

• My sleep gets interrupted by all sorts of visions
• I get frequent sleep paralysis
• I feel that I’m not the only one in the room (when no person is there)
• I notice that I’m getting disconnected from the body and the mind

Once I notice any of these symptoms, I tend to do some grounding work to get the balance back. I go for a walk, meet up with people who are not spiritually aware, eat some heavy food and go to watch a movie. Any earthly thing like that will keep you grounded.

And for those people who still ignore symptoms similar to what happens to me and continue their spiritual development, here’s what can happen:

• They lose grip of this reality
• Their kundalini energy prematurely rises
• They refuse to face the world as it is
• They no longer can find anything in common with other people
• They don’t see any point in doing any kind of work
• They exhaust their bodies with too little food or drink

So now I hope you will know why some spiritual people look or act weird. They simply lack the balance.

Sometimes people have a hard time understanding that you can be spiritual and enjoy the earthly things. For example, I consider myself spiritual but I love having great nights out with friends, spending money, appreciating the physical manifestations. Some too spiritual people would consider such things too earth-bound.

And if you have the question whether you would become as weird as some spiritual people are if you develop spiritually, my answer is… very unlikely.

Spiritually aware people who lost their balance did so because:

• They were like that all their lives
• They had mental imbalance that they thought they could compensate with being very spiritual
• They had some major imbalance in some other area so they tried to compensate it with spirituality
• They felt like they had no identity so now they derive all their essence from spirituality

Spiritual Dress Code… Or is it?

It’s funny for me to see some spiritual people who look like Jesus or some other saint, as though their appearance proves that they are spiritual. Jesus looked in the same way as most other men of his time. I’m sure if he would live on earth at this time, he would not wear the sandals and the robe:)

Or you probably know some enlightened monks or people from India that have a certain dress code. So when you see someone “spiritual” dressed in a similar fashion yet living in a country that has a totally different dress code, be almost certain that those people are lacking balance.

So those who dress in a way that shows how “spiritual” they are have either lost it or they try too hard to prove how spiritual they are, and that may show that they are still identified with the ego.

The way I dress, for example, is the way most people in Western Europe dress. Nothing special about my clothes. Yet it’s not about clothes, it’s about how you perceive the world and whether you buy into the illusion or are detached from it that shows how spiritually developed you are.

And lastly, let me give you some examples of people who are really spiritual but don’t look or act in a way some people think spiritual people should dress/behave:

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