Unplugged: What about Spiritual Bypassing?

In this 2020 video, Marc Gafni explains one chief facet of the phenomenon known as “spiritual bypassing”: the refusal of Unique Obligation. He says:

Spiritual bypass is the same. I want to get to depth. I want to get to some glimmering of an enlightenment experience. I want to get to some sense of livng as love in the world. I want to get to some sense of Unique Self realization where I experience the divine living in me, as me, and through me. But I’m not actually willing to commit myself to a consistent, surrendered, committed practice. … And much of the modern context, in the spiritual communities with which we are familiar, Boulder or Marin, filled with beautiful and gorgeous people, in this liberal, left-leaning spiritual community, you go from one teacher to another teacher. There’s a sort of spiritual commoditization happening. Teachers are offering their wares. You drift from teacher to teacher, get some insight, then go to the next one. You never develop a commitment, a surrender, there’s no place before which you bow. Instead of creating a post-postmodern spirituality, we’re creating a dilettantish, which tends towards hypersensitive narcissism instead of a surrendered self-transcendence.