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“Shame on you!” We’ve all heard it, and we’ve all said it. The Oxford Dictionary defines shame as both a feeling and an action, “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior,” as well as, to “make (someone) feel ashamed.” Shame is a feeling nearly everyone everywhere tries to avoid, with the irony being that those most vulnerable to criticism are the ones most prone to overindulge in attempting to elicit that feeling in others. In some ways the dichotomy of shame is perhaps the most profound of hypocrisy litmus tests there is. What is Creator’s perspective?

We would say, for one thing, this is human-level wisdom in action, often wrong-headed in the choice to fight fire with fire. Because shame is potent as an emotion and many times devastating to experience, the ability to inflict it on others is a handy weapon and often safer to use than a physical assault because many will get away with it, in the sense that freedom of speech confers a relative margin of safety for verbal assaults, for that is what shaming someone represents. We would say that shame is so potent because it is next to the lowest of vibrations one can experience, only exceeded by humiliation when that shaming is witnessed by others as well, and that magnifies the pain being caused in the act of being shamed. To be of a low vibration is disorienting and that is because it weakens a person, so shaming someone is a very deliberate attempt to lay them low, to hit them where it hurts.

We could use many such phrases from common language utilization showing how much a part of life and human behavior the act of shaming has become. The deeper reason, of course, is how dysfunctional the world truly is, that often one is coming from behind, might be outnumbered, or cornered in some way and unable to mount a rational defense of strength and character. That is when people often resort to violence because they run out of gentler tools. Because feeling shame is so common in human experience, and the shaming of others as frequent, correspondingly, because the one goes with the other, what changes is merely who is on the receiving end. It becomes built into the culture. People are often unduly influenced by what others do. Too frequent a demonstration of shaming by many people confers an air of legitimacy that it is culturally acceptable to inflict shaming on another if one feels justified. This is quite a slippery slope.

The basic divine perspective here is a simple one but a powerful contrast to the very idea of bringing shame to someone so they experience such a low blow and such an unhappy state of being. The art of living is being in divine alignment and our first statement of principles is the dictum, “Raise up the self with no harm to others and raise up others with no harm to the self.” That is a most important standard and one necessary to go by in order to be in divine alignment and remain there. If you think about this carefully, there is no room for shame anywhere on the part of anyone. What this means is you are not to shame yourself, nor anyone else, without violating this basic principle of divinity, and we can assure you if you do there will be consequences—that is the part missing from the dictionary and from most human discourse.

People make the mistake of doing what they believe they can get away with. This is thinking selfishly and inherently from a place of weakness. If you are standing strong, connected to your power as a divine being, there is no room for something lowly because you are filled with the ability to not only experience well-being, confidence, and acceptance of the self on a deep level, but by not being in need and feeling inferior, being generous to others, being forgiving, understanding, uplifting, and even charitable is not experienced as a penalty but rather a joyous demonstration of that feeling of completion when one is standing strong, in divine alignment, because they have learned their way to a high level of discernment and self-control. Realistically, people cannot maintain that state of being indefinitely, sooner or later something will come along to knock them down, so it is important to understand the dynamics of feeling shame and shaming others because it is part of learning the ropes, as a human being, as you will encounter it along your journey.

A viewer asks: “I have a female family member who has a deeply antagonistic attitude towards men. She constantly berates men and insults masculinity, even in the presence of others, including her own son. She also constantly rails against “white people,” accusing them of racism and harming other peoples, and seems oblivious to the hypocrisy of her own extremely suspicious and prejudiced stance. She does not stop and seems stuck in a loop. What is the cause of her mindset? Why does she resent men? And why does she resent “white people?” Will she have karmic repercussions if she continues like this?” What is Creator’s perspective?

Her positions and perspectives are largely a product of mind control manipulation. These are campaigns promulgated by the interlopers and aimed at everyone. They work both sides of every issue and will attempt to ramp up members of both polar opposites to have the strongest possible opinions and, if it can be arranged, even to attack those with an opposing view or even turn to acts of violence if people are susceptible enough to be manipulated to break the law and engage in, frankly, immoral conduct. Such beliefs, as you describe, are deeply held within a deep part of the mind and become the marching orders, the hardwiring, the computer program, in effect, governing thoughts, feelings, and actions. This is why people will not surrender in an argument but fight back and denounce the opposite perspective. This is because their own beliefs are accepted at face value. This is the problem with beliefs and their power, they are rarely questioned. There are a precious few people who are truly open-minded, who can hold their own beliefs up to the light of day and question them sincerely about their merits, and will even be prepared to hold them in abeyance and try out an opposite perspective to see what might come about, and this is how some people can change their minds and heart and turn things around when they are on a long dark path to oblivion but do not know it yet.

So this woman is in need of deep healing and repair to negotiate some changing of those inner beliefs, and a strengthening of inner characteristics and soul attributes that are more balanced and realistic and would serve her much more wisely as a way to be strong and more effective in her actions. As history has shown again and again, those with extremist views eventually cause things to blow up, and after a time their views become anathema and are discarded, thus the cycles of propaganda and manipulation keep people going around in circles. The only way to break free is through divine help—that is the only way to gain the high ground when you are mired in the quicksand of negativity.

Arthur Guirdham wrote, “The inquisitors regarded the purity of the Parfaits (Cathar priests) as something to be used against them, believing that, because it was associated with heresy, it must necessarily be classified with hypocrisy. Evidence for the corruption of the Roman Church at the time is adequately provided by Pope Innocent III, who instigated the Great Crusade against the Albigensians but had no illusions about the failure of his own priests.” Then there is the irony of a pope with the name “Innocent” single-handedly being directly responsible for more overt and severe human suffering than arguably any other pope in the history of the Catholic Church—as evidenced by the unhealed trauma of Mrs. Smith eight centuries later. What can Creator tell us about the irony of his chosen name and the sincerity of his belief that God was truly on his side in announcing his horrific edict?

This was in fact a huge irony, that this presumed religious icon and leader of the church could end up serving the darkness in this way by condemning groups of people to an extreme torturous death, in the name of God, for simply holding somewhat different interpretations of the Bible. So he was far from “innocent” and more the opposite in these doings. It is quite tragic when someone, through corruption, uses their belief in the divine in an unholy way to serve the cause of darkness through judgment and condemnation that is not only hurtful but in some cases may lead to a fatal outcome in many terrible ways. Certainly, imprisonment and execution is a tangible penalty when forced on someone judged and condemned by the church and its leadership, but there are many who suffer anguish on a lifelong basis that will trigger many prior karmic woundings and lead to many types of suffering and a shortened life.

The tragedy may not end there because many who fear the afterlife, because they feel they have sinned in the eyes of the church, may try to avoid the light callers who want to escort them home to heaven and end up becoming trapped as earthbound spirits where they will be set upon and suffer tremendous misery, and that can go on even for centuries in some cases. That is not a condemnation by God, but a condemnation by humans presuming to speak for the Almighty when they lack the knowledge, wisdom, and discernment to truly understand the loving nature of the divine, that judgment and condemnation have no place in religious teachings, only instructive correction done to uplift and support and encourage, not to limit, restrict, punish, or condemn.

Is Eliminating Hypocrisy Necessary for Divine Healing?

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Webmaster Brian

Considered one of the worst vices among humans, hypocrisy can instantly make someone fall from grace in the eyes of friends, family members, or even strangers on social media. Hypocritical people can be easily identified. No matter how hard they try to put on a façade, their true self becomes apparent once the shiny exterior begins to wear off.

While hypocritical people hurt others, they ultimately hurt themselves the most. In essence, one cannot seek spiritual enlightenment and divine healing without actively undoing the convoluted knots of hypocrisy in their heart.

In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into the very nature of hypocrisy and how it rots one’s mind, soul, heart, and existence. What’s the Creator’s perspective? And how can a hypocritical person break the vicious cycle of hypocrisy? Read on.

1. How Can I Identify Hypocrisy?

When people become self-righteous and consider their opinions, beliefs, views, and postulations to be the “absolute truth,” they dive deeper into the murky waters of hypocrisy. As they place their standpoint on a golden pedestal, they disparage others who think differently.

Their hypocrisy then turns into condescension. By patronizing others, they feel a sense of power. Anyone who disagrees with them is perceived as flawed and of lesser substance and value.

In actuality, hypocritical people are putting on a façade of moral excellence. Once you dig deeper, you quickly realize that the way they live, act, think, and communicate is a contradiction in every definition of the word.

Click here for a closer look at Creator’s take on hypocrisy.

2. How Does Hypocrisy Slow Down or Completely Thwart the Search for Divine Healing?

People often reach positions of leadership by adopting hypocrisy as a working tool. They maintain a public persona that appears to be an exalted one so they can claim to possess all the virtues one could want. They tirelessly try to prove their strength of character and get a loud round of applause from others.

When the camera is turned off and the curtain is peeled back, these people are revealed to be masterful liars, cheaters, and manipulators. They are able to get away with all kinds of criminal behavior because they aren’t capable of feeling guilty.

This lack of guilt is the hallmark of their inner corruption. It is, as Creator highlights, “the characteristic of sociopaths when there is an extreme absence of conscience.”

Needless to say, these people struggle to embark on the journey to divine healing because they’re ultimately narcissistic to the core. They’re not interested in exploring the hidden truths of the world. They’re simply interested in putting on a front and immaculately maintaining it.

Click here for a closer look at Creator’s perspective on this.

3. Breaking Free of Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is extremely common. Fathers, mothers, siblings, sons, daughters, partners, close friends, and relatives can be hypocrites. There’s also a possibility that we have remnants of hypocrisy in our own hearts.

Until we identify hypocrisy within ourselves and strive to actively undo it, we can’t possibly seek spiritual enlightenment. Explore Creator’s answers to common questions about hypocrisy by clicking here.

If you’re struggling to come to terms with this, reach out to Creator today. At Get Wisdom, we’re committed to helping you embark on the path to spiritual enlightenment and live a meaningful life in alignment with the divine principles for living. Explore our healing sessions, wisdom webinars, podcasts, and channeling interviews to get started.

“Fine for me, but not for thee.” For many folks, nothing highlights and center stages evil more than blatant, naked hypocrisy. The open, and even at times championed, display of inequality. In fact, it’s probably safe to say that few things reveal a true lack of divine alignment than unabashed and bald-faced hypocrisy. What is Creator’s perspective?

This, indeed, is a fair assessment of the low order of thinking involved with a hypocritical perspective and actions done in a hypocritical fashion. Knowing on some level within the being what is truly right and just and fair, as well as being in divine alignment, and then choosing to do something lesser in the assumption that one is entitled or there are special circumstances allowing the person to skirt around the rules, so to speak, and favor the self over others. That is basically what hypocrisy means, “it is a favoring of the self over others,” and this is the basic reason why it is so roundly criticized, seen with horror and disgust by others, and regretted at times by those who truly do know better and are still enough in alignment to know they have transgressed in a significant way. Hypocrisy is a suspension of morality in a sense, allowing one to float along above the fray, not subject to the rules applied to others, or even they would dictate others must follow, and so by adopting a special set of circumstances and rules for themselves, elevate their own person above others and create a basic state of unfairness with their thoughts and actions.

Is it useful to think of hypocrisy as the “anti-Golden Rule?”

This can be a useful perspective because it is the opposite of the stated aim of the Golden Rule, “To have others treated as you would have them treat the self.” This creates a basic equality and fairness across the board. If one does not hold themselves to a lower standard that is expected of others and in that action treats them unfairly, does an injustice of some kind, but then expects to get off scot-free, bending or breaking the same rules once themselves and often maddeningly to outside observers, seem not to be aware they are doing so or perhaps are so insensitive and inured to the importance of being in alignment with all one does, they simply ignore the reality they are committing an infraction of some kind and will be causing harm to others. What they fail to see in this is they are harming themselves even more greatly than the injustice they are causing. This is no different than any other kind of misconduct, it will be seen by the Law of Karma and there will be a day of reckoning that comes along when anything they have gained will be taken away from them, and more so by the Law of Karma meting out justice to them even as they denied justice to others perhaps long before, but eventually karma will do what’s needed to restore balance once again to the universe.

In a sense, the Golden Rule is reflecting a basic operating principle of everything in the universe that “All depends on balance and balance is a requisite for smooth functioning and a divine expression, which takes into account the needs of all and what would be fairest to all involved in anything that happens.” When someone acts selfishly to get away with something, they are, in effect, taking something away from the universe to some extent, they are robbing the universe of a loving equanimity, a balanced fairness that is the availability of an equal amount of love to all. In that selfish act, they are throwing the universe itself out of balance and it will have effects far beyond the person doing the harm and the person or persons they are influencing most directly. This is a lesson people often fail to learn given an entire lifetime because they do not see the causal connection between their own actions and a distant event when karma is finally catching up with them. It is far better to comport oneself according to a general rule of “good behavior” as a kind of insurance against making a misstep that will cause serious harm to oneself inevitably.

Hypocrisy is so universally loathed, that people go to great lengths to hide it, and then minimize it when caught. It appears that even hypocrites hate hypocrites! What is Creator’s perspective?

Here we would say that the major factor in play with the general distaste for experiencing or even witnessing this in action is that it is a breach in fair treatment to favor the self over others, to have a dual standard where one is allowed to do what one wants but others are expected to stay within a set of rules and play fair, and will therefore be at a disadvantage in competing with someone who acts as though they are above the law, especially if they can get away with it. This is a very common consequence of people who are corrupted becoming out of alignment so that they cannot have compassion for the suffering of others in a normal way and when that is insufficient, find it all too easy to take advantage of other people to serve the self because they will be little concerned with the consequences they might be causing for the disadvantaged individuals they exploit in this fashion. It takes someone who is insensitive to live that way with the possibility of their conduct being detected and then becoming common knowledge when people start to spread stories about them, and at some point they will be called to account and it could be quite embarrassing indeed.

This embarrassment will be much less so on the part of someone who is beyond the pale, suffering from severe narcissism, or who has a sociopathic personality disorder making them devoid of a conscience. People are individually somewhere on a spectrum between divine alignment and non-alignment. It is the sociopaths at the extreme end of things in non-alignment. Those who are capable of even committing serious crimes, including homicide, without compunction because they cannot feel any remorse or guilt for anything they do because they care nothing about other people, and will not see and feel the harm to them as being important in any way, and will not allow that to hinder them in making things easy for themselves and harming others to gain an advantage.

So, in effect, hypocrisy is an extreme state of false representation, it is living a lie, and that is what makes it so upsetting because it is not a single lie in most cases but a lie that is perpetuated to become a kind of mode of operating, even a lifestyle as in having a career gained by self-promotion using false credentials and posing as something one is not, or enforcing rules of conduct that one is breaking personally again and again and again, and thus will appear to be two-faced when this disparity is eventually exposed and the person confronted. So this automatically will make it a more serious level of falsehood and many times hypocrisy involves criminal level conduct through its consequences, so it becomes a rather serious matter in the course of human affairs, and rightly so—it is very telling about the individual’s character who engages in hypocritical behavior.

A cynical question for the guilty is, “Are you sorry for your transgression, or are you sorry that you got caught?” It seems few things elicit the dreaded “pangs of conscience” more than knowingly being hypocritical. But some people seem to have no problem with this, and might even view hypocrisy as a kind of “sport,” even pushing the envelope to see just how much hypocrisy they can get away with. In fact, this seems like an apt description of interloper behavior. What is Creator’s perspective?

People who live hypocritical lives are often far along the spectrum towards non‑alignment with the divine and, at the extreme end, live lives of depravity in major respects where there might be criminal conduct and exploitation of others. This all relates to the ability to have compassion and identify with the feelings of others who might be harmed by something, and to ignore their plight in service to the self in skirting around rules so one ends up gaining an advantage denied to others, will be reassured by their success, their greater security, and may even feel smug as it is, indeed, a reward to the ego to have that power and be able to exercise their influence to take advantage compared to people who are in more alignment and will not choose to disobey rules to gain an advantage and therefore suffer in comparison. But it is those who follow the rules and are in divine alignment who truly have the high ground. Those who break the rules and live according to a double standard they get away with through lying and false posturing to hide their misconduct are undercutting themselves and, in effect, digging a hole to lower themselves because the Law of Karma will reckon with their poor choices, and at some point they will need to pay a price to rebalance things thrown out of alignment by their misdeeds.

One of the most widely used tenets of pop psychology is the idea of projection. That, in an effort to rationalize our own behavior, we project that everyone around us is just as guilty. Sure I’m a hypocrite! What’s the big deal, isn’t everyone? And to take it even further, accuse others BEFORE they can accuse us. Or in keeping with the anti-Golden Rule theme, “Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you!” What is Creator’s perspective on the “projection” of one’s own hypocrisy onto others?

This is very much a trap that perpetrators create for themselves to spread their poison and create additional victims through their selfish actions to live a lie in some way to serve themselves at the expense of others, even as they are criticizing others for similar conduct and posing as authorities on the subject and claiming to set an example for good behavior while behind the scenes they are violating their own would-be rules. This is a very cynical and shallow existence. Those who indulge in such conduct and are blind to their own hypocrisy are very close to resembling the interlopers who are so corrupted they lack morality altogether—this can happen for people as well.

Many humans in positions of leadership get there by adopting hypocrisy as a working tool, so they maintain a public persona that appears to be an exalted one so they can claim to have all the virtues one could want and the strength of character to be admired by all, even though behind the scenes they might well be lying and cheating regularly and doing all kinds of manipulations, and even criminal behavior because they are able to do so without feeling guilt—that is a hallmark of inner corruption to a high degree and is the characteristic of sociopaths when there is an extreme absence of conscience.

Many chief executive officers of corporations, as well as politicians and others who rely on public support and visibility, are sociopaths because they can ruthlessly outcompete others and may well have a sordid history of backstabbing and sabotaging the careers of others to get ahead. It is unfortunate in your world that ruthlessness is so often rewarded because it is mistaken for strength and competence when it is all too often someone who is living a lie but putting up a false front of solidity, bold claims that may be exaggerated, and false promises because they can be unabashed in making proposals that may never be possible because they lack a conscience and are so used to living as a hypocrite they have experienced the reality they can really handle anything—to make excuses, to misdirect people, misstate facts, or use a number of strategies that will end up causing others to take the blame so they can literally get away with anything—so there will be no stopping them in a pursuit of power.

This is the danger of hypocrites succeeding with their false front misrepresentation to perhaps cast aspersions on others for doing what they themselves do and perhaps even to a greater extent. It is a well-worn and highly successful propaganda ploy because the assumption is if you are accusing someone of something, you yourself must be pristine in order to have that privilege, and would never be engaged in a similar misdeed or inappropriate conduct because it would just be too brazen to imagine someone doing—that, too, adds to the likelihood of success of the hypocrite. When they are devoid of a conscience, they can look into a camera without batting an eye, smile, and deflect criticism with a disarming counternarrative that may be based on lies entirely but their poise and seeming confidence will usually be believed. People do not like to think those around them are liars and manipulators and simply misrepresenting themselves in a hypocritical fashion, but it is all too common because of corruption by the darkness.

“Do as I say, not as I do,” epitomizes the problem of hypocrisy in parenting. There is probably not a parent alive who has never been guilty of this, which speaks to the very heart of the issue. Children may be naive, but they are not stupid. Few things damage the image and role model duty of the parent than hypocrisy. Can Creator comment?

Public figures more often than not engage in hypocritical behavior quite frequently, but people in the general public are not living with them and not relying on their assistance personally, and will often not see the misrepresentation because they don’t know the backstory and cannot research it themselves. But when you live with someone, they are on display, and eventually their true nature will come out in the open and you will see them for who they truly are. You may not fully appreciate all the nuances, the causal elements for how they came to be that way, but you will see there is something deeply wrong and will take offense when you end up being mistreated by someone who is a hypocrite and in no position to criticize because they may well be a poorer example of what they expect from you in their own doings.

Children will see through lies and misstatements of their parents because they are able to reason and have a highly keen intuitive sense of the energy behind people’s words and deeds. They will know when their parents are lying, for example. They might not appreciate why a lie is being told but they will know something is not right, and they have an innate sense of fairness and will feel it keenly if they are being mistreated or held to a higher standard than the parent themselves exhibits. That sense of right and wrong is because children are innately more in divine alignment than adults simply because they are more recently coming from the light and have not been corrupted as much in the current incarnation. There may be karmic influences arising in the very young that will throw them out of alignment and make them quite difficult to deal with, and quite a disruptive influence such that even young children can sometimes engage in criminal activity because it is such a karmic pattern for them it will be rumbling and engaging them with inner challenges and causing them to fall back on taking the easy path of covering up misdeeds with lies.

But for the most part, children are more young, innocent, and trusting because they are more in alignment and it is the contrast between those expectations and their being treated shabbily by parents simply being selfish in the moment, and perhaps too demanding for their own convenience even as they visibly neglect their own lives. So children will see this and will have a strong negative emotional reaction. It might be internalized entirely but will cause great stress within them because the yearning of the soul will be seeking something more for them and for their life and put them in conflict then with the parent and the parent’s wishes. Some children will act out and may even become a problem for society if they are too abused and then seek retribution beyond the home in the wider setting of the community or the school classroom where their emotions boil over and they begin to harm others or become defiant with their teachers, and so on.

Parents have a sacred duty to shepherd the young because they are guardians of their soul as an advocate for them until they are mature enough to take over that responsibility on their own. That is every bit as crucial as seeing to their personal safety so they do not run into traffic as a toddler or have access to household materials that might be poisonous, and sufficient childproofing is done so they cannot play with sharp objects or experiment with electrical sockets, and so on. That investment in being honest, fair, and respectful in maintaining a kind of balance in the relationship with their children is a critical element of parenting in order to help raise a confident and successful well-balanced child who will cope with life and thrive to become a well-adjusted and successful member of society. A hypocritical parent is one of the worst possible negative role models a child could be subjected to because it will be quite harmful in teaching many false messages about life, and will inevitably cause children to adopt inappropriate negative beliefs about themselves, their own worthiness, and the trustworthiness of adult figures, and so on.