The Game You're Still Playing

93% of “awakened” people are still caught in power games.

Not because they lack awareness—

but because they confuse naming the game with leaving it.

You spot the tactic.

You call out the projection.

You dissect the manipulation.

And your ego applauds:

“Look how evolved we are.”

But here’s the trap—naming the pattern isn’t liberation. It’s just level one.

The ego doesn’t need to win to stay alive.

It just needs to stay in the arena.

And analysis?

That’s one of its favorite tools.

If I can define the game,

I don’t have to drop the controller.

If I can describe the tactic,

I don’t have to release my role in it.

Spiritual ego is slippery like that.

It talks about power dynamics endlessly—

not to free you from them,

but to feel superior for seeing them.

The most dangerous bypass isn’t denial.

It’s the belief that being able to name the matrix means you’ve exited it.

It doesn’t.

You’re still in the game when:

• You want them to understand
• You feel superior for noticing the dynamic
• You’re narrating the pattern after the call
• You’re hoping for closure
• You feel a charge, a spike, a need to respond

These aren’t signs of awakening.

They’re signs you’re still hooked.

Real neutrality looks different.

Less glamorous.

Less dramatic.

More whole.

It sounds like:

• Breathing before speaking
• Letting go of the need to correct the narrative
• Choosing presence over positioning
• Not needing to be understood
• Watching the game unfold—and not feeding it

It’s not passivity.

It’s radical energetic disengagement.

It’s inner clarity that doesn’t collapse when misunderstood.

The moment you stop needing to explain, to prove, to be seen as right—

you become something rare:

Unplayable.

The paradox?

The more you try to win at spirituality,

the further from truth you get.

Because real freedom

isn’t in winning.

It’s in walking away.

From the arena.

From the power trip.

From the fantasy of being above it all.

And when you do?

You don’t just escape the game—

You dissolve its hold on everyone around you.

Because neutrality is contagious.

And truth doesn’t compete.

Practice this:

“Am I responding to win, or to be free?”

The ego responds to be right.

The soul responds from peace.

Or doesn’t respond at all.

That space between the two?

That’s where awakening actually lives.