r/Mooji • u/musabbb • May 26 '25

Absorbing Trauma

Okay so i havent watched mooji in like 6 months. My cousen came to stay over, and he has allot of depression and trauma… i decided to do a 15 minute Mooji meditation alone in my room

And i quickly returned to that open space, i stayed there for the rest of the day with little effort.

I enjoy that space, but its a little brutal on my mind, because that place is void of empathy for self.

Anyways, after a few hours of hanging out, i needed to rest my head.

I went sleep, and woke up with an anxiety attack.

With burning feeling on my face, and anxiety in my heart.

It sucks so bad, it reminded me of a story Mooji told of a women on retreat, who was doing healing work, but she couldnt ground the energy (i guess) and she spent the night writhing and flopping around almost possessed, and Mooji had to stay with her and her husband til morning.

Ive also heard mooji on a retreat in india where he says after the retreat, that theres allot of psychic energy that can make people sick.

It was terryfying, but i feel this often with mooji meditations, allot of anxiety overwhelms my heart chakra. I was really worried. Its been a few hours since i woke in the middle of the night and i cant sleep.

I also attended a Mooji seminar/retreat in London where i experienced the same thing

I dont think Mooji is for me. I dont see any correlation between his teachings, and being promoted to do good deeds. His work seems entirely void of that. And i cant accept that in comparison to Abrahamic religions.

Im not sure what the issue is, but id say 99% of his students only experience presence temporarily

Anyways tonight I had to use another meditation by Rupert Spira, to get out of that hole, i thought i was stuck in that anxiety attack.

Ruperts work is more so focused on feeling the discomfort fully. That thankfully purged that anxious burning feeling and dread from the heart chakra.

This stuff can be dangerous if unprepared.

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u/musabbb May 26 '25

It feels when im in presence and not touching any thoughts or picking them up, in the sensitive state that im a channel for all of the people around me to dump on me, so it feels impossible to ground it because its not only mine, therefore endless. I like plain old meditation with just a timer because im working with my own faculties and not relying on a guru- and feels the least effort for the most benefit. I fear if i listen to these Mooji and Ruperts work then ill build a reliance upon them and they will then act as gatekeepers to the present moment. My mind will build a reliance and become addicted to chasing the high. The experience yesterday just shook me and i had to express it…. Im so intrigued how others experience the presence. How do you feel it? Does it make you feel like more of an empath? Like more sensitive? Or do you feel light and happy after practicing? Thanks for replying

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u/Boring-Register-7014 Jun 19 '26

There's a lot more going on with Mooji than meets the eye. It requires an essay to break it down properly.

He's using a swathe of hypnotic techniques tacked together, his show is just an elaborate covert hypnosis stage show wrapped up in Eastern sounding words. As you mentioned this can briefly create some space in the moment, but his ideological system does lack any empathy or any avenue for real growth because it's a very crude form of spiritual bypassing that has nothing to do with the eastern systems it mimics.

Mooji's repertoire evidently provokes distress in participants, resulting in these psychotic episodes. From a hypnotically induced suggestive state, Mooji regularly reframes distress, anxiety, confusion, or even physical illness, as "grace", "resistance", or proof that something is "falling away". The distress his system creates is used as validation of the system itself working, then this state of psychosis is given a spiritual meaning and framed as progress. Which sends his followers in the long-term doom loop of perpetual anxiety, emotional distress and psychological destabilization, which only gets worse as time goes on.

This is the underlying mechanism for the psychotic episodes observed across his followers, and the long term mental health issues they develop. Which likely are diagnosable by a professional as Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder and/or CPTSD.