emily lander

Luciferian Temptation Disguised as Ascension. From an occult and esoteric perspective, thinking you’re awake while lost in delusion is more dangerous than being asleep without pretending to be awake. Overestimating your level of consciousness and inflating your identity through labels like “starseed,” “gridworker,” “lightworker,” or “indigo” creates a false sense of specialness. This blocks the humility needed for sincere, grounded psycho-spiritual work, which is the foundation of real awakening. Your true soul-being is not identified with any labels; only the ego is. The spiritual ego is harder to break than the ego of someone still asleep in the matrix. This is the root of spiritual narcissism, which is becoming increasingly common. The illusion of being special or chosen becomes a mask for unresolved childhood wounds, insecurity, and unhealed trauma. Whether it’s claiming to be an ambassador for ET races, a chosen contactee for the Galactic Federation, a starseed on a special mission, or a self-righteous reborn Christian convinced they have special access to God, it all feeds the same inflation. Any identity that reinforces specialness and attachment to spiritual labels becomes a trap. It also opens the door to hostile forces. This is the Luciferian temptation. Hostile entities, often disguised as benevolent beings, feed on this self-importance and spiritual inflation. They reinforce the illusion of specialness through flattery and seductive downloads that keep the person trapped in spiritual delusion. The New Age astral circus is filled with alluring deceptions, including channelings of alien beings, extraterrestrial federations, and assertions of access to special light codes and DNA upgrades to facilitate “ascension.” Many people accept these ideas at face value. The belief that “resonance equals truth” becomes a dangerous justification for spiritual bypassing and occult manipulation. As Gurdjieff said, the most dangerous state is to dream you are awake while still fully asleep. In that condition, the person believes they are awake and spreading truth, when in reality, they have become a puppet for forces they are not even aware of. That kind of delusion is harder to break than ignorance because it is protected by pride, a sense of specialness, and an inflated spiritual identity that believes itself to be awake and has access to “inside” or “special” knowledge. This creates what esoteric traditions call a false foundation, which is more difficult to break down than a generic false personality. The ego structure fuses with a spiritual identity and mistakenly believes itself to be awake. At best, you get distracted, waste some time and energy, but eventually learn some valuable lessons. At worst, you become entrapped and regress while dreaming of being awake. The esoteric traditions warn against getting lost in the astral occult maze, where deceptive beings reside. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther ——————— “So preserve yourselves, my brothers, from the calamities of this place [the astral realm], for distinguishing it is extremely difficult! Souls find it sweet, and then within it they are duped, since they become completely enamored of it.” - Al-Arabi (Sufi Master) ——————— “Many ‘spiritual’ teachings come from ‘astral’ realms of consciousness, which in themselves can be seductive, unending, and pleasurable, but they do not lead to enlightenment/true awakening. Some misleading figures claim special private instructions from God [or ETs] and become self-proclaimed prophets and visionaries. Avoid the attractive but irrelevant. There are endless astral realms and universes, each with its own masters, spiritual hierarchy, and belief systems. Many are quite intriguing, gratifying, even joyful and thrilling, but the unwary can be easily entrapped by these fascinating, esoteric doctrines and beings. These distractions all rely on form and specialness [appealing to ego]. The whole field takes on a carnival-like atmosphere, with reference to spaceships, UFOs, extraterrestrials, and prophecies. All these aspects are mistakenly labeled as spiritual and tend to be accepted at face value. One is easily misled into the astral circus thinking that it is ‘spiritual’. The whole new-age community becomes enamored of an endless array of ‘masters’, ‘ETs’ and legendary figures, most of whom cause one to go weak with muscle testing [out of integrity, based on falsehood].” - David Hawkins, The Eye of the I