# Ep 302 - Joel & Yerasimos | Spiritual Lies

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Published: 2026-06-21T10:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

What if most of what we've been sold as spirituality is actually the opposite of it — a doctrine that calls self-erasure enlightenment, a path that asks you to amputate the parts of yourself most needed for a sovereign life? In this rap on authentic spirituality, Joel and Yerasimos name the territory directly: the new cage of asceticism, gnosticism, and the love-and-light bypass that disguises dissociation as awakening; the platitudes that gloss over reality instead of meeting it; the body as the warehouse of self-knowledge; and anger, when reclaimed, as one of the most generative forces a human being has access to. The spiritual assignment is becoming yourself — the lifelong work of knowing who you actually are and living in congruence with what you find. CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Watch Our Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/ Join our free Telegram community → https://t.me/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/ Build your digital home with Atlas → https://atlasdigital.world/

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