Bliss is a trap that is very easy to be sold to the lost practitioner. It makes sense - feel good, must be good, right? And spirituality is often presented as just love, light, bliss, etc.
The truth is, to feel that bliss that is often touted as be all end all, you are burning up your own energy, rather than saving it for good use. It’s similar to watching porn - as you are essentially just burning up energy either way, with different dangers if you start taking it into the extremes. And what you described is exactly what ends up happening in the extremes.
Easy to sell, easy to start feeling very quickly - even a simple energy transfer is enough to have a practitioner feel it and go whooaa - add a dash of not knowing what they are doing (both the gurus and the lost practitioners) and a burning desire to progress, and you get droves of people burning themselves up internally by following these gurus.
It is further compounded by most modern people’s existing conditions and the problems caused by modern life. Way too overactive of a mind and heart leads to extremely common head blockages, especially as yogic methods are too common (and the first method for many people) and basically exacerbate these issues.
So, to summarize, I would advise avoiding anything of the sort:
- Kundaliniz
- “Opening your heart”
- Blasting energy up into your head
- Flopping between states of activity and depression
- Bliss
- Celibacy
- Blindly following gurus
- Following a mainstream guru (I don’t think I’ve ever seen any well-known guru that hasn’t been a D or an F on my personal mental tier list, with multiple factors taken into account such as personal attainment, method, lineage, knowledge possessed etc.)
- Third eye, chakras, visualization
- Super quick promised results with minimal hard work, especially selling items with supposed “power” for a high price (a “holy pendant” with an image on it for 200-10k USD won’t help your spiritual practice)
- Aliens, galactic federation, anything with love and light next to it
The list goes on.
If you have the eyes to see and the inner intuition, all of it begins to have the same undercurrent of wrongness, and you become able to easily discern the false from the true. There are 10 thousand different ways around the mountain, but only one way to the peak - and that is up.
It’s important to not delude yourself into thinking you already have it, as many practitioners think they are special and that they do. Act as if you do not, and be highly skeptical.
Ultimately, there are much better ways of spiritual advancement, but they take time and effort to find. So put in that time and effort and don’t settle for just anything. Think long term, and deeply scrutinize any potential teacher or guru.
Do you want to be like them 10-20 years down the line?
Do they have signs of actual advancement?
Are they consistent on a long enough time-span?
Are your experiences objectively improving, or are you flip-flopping between highs and lows?
Are you blindly trusting them and holding on with hope that it gets better?
All such questions one should ask themselves, over and over again. Because ultimately, you have this life (and there are no absolute guarantees for the next one), and in this life you have one body, one spirit, one energetic system, one mind. Don’t gamble with it, and never let yourself be arrogant enough to think, as modern people like to say, that you are “him” and can take it.
Steady, gradual progress, with constant evaluation of the path you are on and hard work, with the good fortune and time put in to find a legitimate teacher, is the way up the mountain.
