📢 Has the Healing Community Been Hijacked by Narcissists? In this episode, Johnny Sage sounds the alarm on a rising epidemic in spiritual and healing spaces: the infiltration of narcissists. Through his firsthand experiences and piercing insights, Johnny breaks down how narcissists are masquerading as healers, influencers, and spiritual leaders and why it's putting vulnerable seekers at risk.

Summary:

Johnny Sage exposes the unsettling reality that many healing and spiritual spaces have become havens for narcissists, particularly covert, overt, communal, and vulnerable types. Drawing from personal experience, he reveals how these individuals use spiritual personas to gain admiration, control, and emotional supply, while avoiding accountability.

🔹 Why Narcissists Are Drawn to Healing Work:Narcissists are often unhealed themselves. When they enter spiritual spaces, they discover an easy opportunity to gain admiration and mask their dysfunction behind a “kind and enlightened” image.

🔹 How They Exploit the Vulnerable: Many seekers are in deep emotional or physical pain and are willing to try anything. Narcissists prey on this vulnerability, offering surface-level healing while feeding off attention and control.

🔹 Mini-Cults and Spiritual Influencers:Narcissists often build small cult-like communities around themselves, sometimes in person, but often through online platforms, making it harder to detect manipulation under a friendly or “high vibe” surface.

🔹 Manipulation Through Language: These narcissists weaponize healing language, gaslighting, using projection, and spiritual jargon like “You’re not on my frequency” or “Your Kundalini isn’t activated” to discredit anyone who questions them.

🔹 Spotting the False Healers: Johnny highlights how narcissists can talk the talk but haven’t lived or embodied the healing they preach. Many plagiarize content, feign transformation, and perform dramatic outbursts to appear awakened and emotionally raw.

Main Message:

Spiritual and healing spaces must be rooted in truth, accountability, and discernment. With the rise of performative spirituality and unhealed individuals posing as leaders, it’s critical to recognize red flags and question appearances. Real healing requires vulnerability, boundaries, and ongoing inner work, not spiritual theatrics or blind devotion. As Johnny puts it, "Real spirituality is knowing your worth, setting boundaries, and not putting up with toxic or abusive behaviors."

Timestamps:

[00:21] Why narcissists have infiltrated healing and spiritual communities

[01:56] Why narcissists are drawn to healing and spiritual spaces

[04:41] How spiritual narcissists find easy targets in wounded seekers

[05:24] The rise of cult-like mini-communities and spiritual influencers

[06:07] Why the “spiritual persona” is the perfect mask for a narcissist

[08:59] Covert narcissists and the illusion of enlightenment

[12:08] The 3 main types of narcissists in healing communities (plus one more)

[13:34] Communal narcissists and the illusion of “healing in community”

[14:56] Overt narcissists: attention, influence, and flying monkeys

[22:27] What a vulnerable narcissist is after

[26:30] How they use gaslighting and spiritual jargon to dodge criticism

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