Note: This text was refined by AI to ensure a better reader experience. I can be wrong, and I am open to correction and guidance.
When I refer to an "Advanced Practitioner" or a "Beginner," I am not generalizing across entire groups. Rather, I am focusing on specific traits and potential pitfalls that may appear in some individuals within these stages. My aim is to explore patterns, not to label people.
While taking my cold shower this morning, my mind became a forge of arguments. It was relentless critique upon critique, each one sharper than the last, to the point where I almost felt the thoughts were intrusive. They were mine, yet they flowed with a volume and depth I normally do not produce. I attribute that flood of awareness to the Gods, though I take full responsibility for the quality of how I present it.
Because of how harsh many of those thoughts were, i kept a diluted version that can be shared without sounding overly agressive, even if the thoughts, were actually overly sharp, harsh and agressive.
The thesis that crystallized is this: The greatest danger of delusion and distortion is not found in beginners. It is found in those we call "advanced."
This is a paradox. And paradoxes, when true, reveal everything.
1. Beginners Are Self-Correcting
Let us start with the obvious cases. A beginner experiences a surge of energy or a vivid vision and becomes overconfident. Or he attempts a working and fails. What happens next? He asks questions. He researches. He is grounded by the very fact that his power is still small.
If a beginner curses someone and nothing happens, the conclusion is simple: I am not strong enough, I made a mistake, or I misjudged the situation. His failure educates him. His own doubt keeps his feet on the ground.
Even the more theatrical beginners, the ones who act edgy, roleplay power, or mimic the energies of the Gods in awkward ways, are not dangerous. They are like children wearing costumes. They love the path. They are trying their best. Time and experience will refine them.
So why do we speak so much about "delusion" and "distortion" as if they are the beginner's curse?
Because we are looking at the wrong stage of development.
2. The Advanced Trap: A Formula One Car Driven by a Beginner
The advanced practitioner has power. He has techniques. He has experiences that confirm his status: visions, energy control, perhaps even Siddhis. He is no longer a child in a costume.
But here is the problem: his power has outpaced his humility and wisdom.
He is now driving a Formula One car, but he steers like an average joe. When he makes a mistake, the crash is not small. It is spectacular and worse, let’s not discuss that now,
Let’s talk about the small ´crash’ that he does not recognize it as a crash.
Consider the curse example, which serves as perfect illustration because it involves power, ethics, and result.
· A beginner curses someone. The curse fails. He reflects: Was I not strong enough? Was the target protected? Did I misread the situation? He learns.
· An advanced practitioner curses someone. The curse fails. What does he think?
· I just need to try another technique.
· Just wait it is happening.
· [ at every minor thing happening to target normally, since everyone has setbacks in his life ] Oh look it is happening!
Etc..
He will consider every explanation except the simplest one: I am not as powerful as I think. Or even more humbling: The Gods may favor the other person more than me. Or simply, i failed or i should not have done that in first place.
This is not discernment. This is self-deception wearing the mask of spiritual sophistication.
And the most terrifying part? He will then guide beginners with perfect logic, telling them that curses fail when the target is more powerful or when the Gods disapprove but he will never apply that same logic to himself.
That is delusion in its purest, most evolved form.
I saw before advanced spiritual people, give lessons about how one should be more composed and such, in a reactive not composed way, the irony. Many advanced people live in a bubble, what worsens the condition, is no one around them dares to point it.
3. Scripture as a Mirror or a Weapon?
Another symptom of this advanced distortion is the misuse of sacred texts.
Take the Bhagavad Gita. An advanced practitioner might quote Krishna encouraging Arjuna to fight, and conclude: Therefore, I should destroy my enemy. I should curse. I should act aggressively.
This is the same edginess we see in beginners, but dressed in philosophical robes.
The Gita does not say "act blindly." It says "act without attachment to fruits." It does not say "fight always." It says "do your duty." And duty is not always action, sometimes, duty is restraint. Sometimes, the most powerful action is inaction.
When you cherry-pick a scripture to justify your ego's desire, you are not reading the text. You are distorting it. The advanced practitioner who does this is no different from the beginner who imagines a sign from the Gods that confirms his own wishes.
The difference is that the beginner will eventually be corrected by his peers. The advanced practitioner has authority, and often no one dares to correct him.
4. Seeing the Gods Is Not a Promotion
A major turning point for many advanced practitioners is when they begin to perceive the Gods directly. They see forms. They hear messages. And often, a subtle shift occurs: they begin to feel chosen.
But let us be clear.
The Gods have always been here. They have always been accessible to anyone with the right keys. The fact that you can now see them does not mean you are above others. It does not mean you are more Godly.
It simply means you unlocked a sensory function.
There are people far more Godly than you who have never seen a God, because they never stumbled upon the techniques, lack understanding or because their path is different. Their character, their humility, their integrity, their capacity for love and justice, these are the true markers of advancement.
Visions are not virtue. Power is not purity.
´The Gods do not give theophanies to the ones they hate’, that is not the perspective i want to talk from in this subject.
5. The True Metric of Advancement
If Siddhis, visions, and spiritual experiences are not the measure, then what is?
I propose this: Godly traits. Long story short : Theophoros 🔱
· Humility in the face of power.
· Accountability in the face of failure.
· The ability to see oneself clearly, without the filters of pride or self-justification.
· The willingness to be wrong, even after decades of practice.
· The discernment to know that the universe does not revolve around one's own workings.
Etc..
These are the qualities that separate the truly advanced from the merely powerful.
And these are the qualities that vanish first when delusion takes root.
In face of one who thinks he can step on everyone because he thinks he is powerful, that is my stance: Power divorced from purpose is merely force and force, without justice, is ultimately impotent. I do not yield to its coercion, not because I overestimate myself, but because I properly estimate my allegiance: I stand in the company of the Zeus & Hera 🔱, and all the Gods, and all their vessels, and that alignment renders all terrestrial and astral hierarchies secondary.
In opposite of what many think,
One can be helped by some entities and have power,
And the power coming from those entities,
One is an average joe.
So power and results proven by someone are not really enough. This is just 1 example.
I size people up by one metric alone: their capacity as a vesse, their weight as a Theophoros. And I refuse to grade on a pass/fail curve. It is cumulative, a mountain built of pebbles, not a switch flipped on or off.
Closing Thought
The shower experience that prompted this was beautiful, a cascade of arguments that felt inexhaustible, as if the mind had tapped into a current of intelligence beyond its usual capacity. I attribute that to the Gods. But I also know that intelligence without humility is a poison.
So let us stop speaking of beginner delusion as the great threat. Let us instead turn the mirror toward ourselves, especially when we feel most certain, most powerful, most advanced.
Let me hear your thoughts on this, i am open for discussion & correction.

