Many practices in the contemporary spiritual industry are questionable and loaded with discrepancies and contradictions. 

For some time now, I’ve been thinking there are at least two ways to deal with this problem: either take the piss out of those in the industry who take themselves too seriously, or not seriously enough, or deconstruct the behaviours of both extremes. I’ve chosen deconstruction. And of course, I’ll include archetypes in it.

Here’s what I mean. One person behaving like a local menace to health and safety, and masquerading as a wellness guru, makes “healing” videos while driving. 

It’s clear that the priority of these types of videos is not to be in full charge of driving the car.  Instead, the priority is to make a video for marketing purposes, while driving, and one that could be made with the driver’s full presence instead. The only useful side to not being in charge of the vehicle (that, from an archetypal perspective, represents your life) is if the content creator killed someone while making a video on their phone, the tragedy will be recorded for the families of the victim/s to use as evidence in the trial. Dangerous driving might seem like a good way to generate publicity, but it puts people at risk. Is this the message? Live dangerously even if it compromises the safety of all involved? To what end? Their wellbeing? The message is mixed to say the least. 

My questions to these types of drivers are: 

1. Is the practice of dangerous driving being used to inflate the ego, claim moral or energetic superiority, or avoid personal accountability? 
2. Maybe it is bypassing emotional responsibility? 
3. Maybe the agenda is to reframe “spiritual authority” to subtly dominate others? 

These videos assume that viewers are ready to overlook a deliberately poor expression of the immature and undeveloped sides of their Child, Victim, Prostitute, Saboteur, Warrior, Advocate and Rebel archetypes, rather than expressing the highest potential of these archetypes. If the driver operated from within the energy of their true, authentic Self, which is sacred, then their actions would be the direct opposite of what they are demonstrating. 

Trying to raise a profile and influence people by menacing them comes across as unhealthy self-interest rather than genuine concern for others and their wellbeing.