Why You Start Disliking People After Spiritual Awakening - Alan Watts

Why You Start Disliking People After Spiritual Awakening | Alan Watts

Friends you once enjoyed now exhaust you. Family gatherings feel unbearable. Colleagues drain your energy. Most conversations feel hollow and meaningless. You can't stand being around people anymore, and this terrifies you. Shouldn't spiritual awakening make you more loving, more compassionate, more accepting? Instead, you find yourself withdrawing, avoiding, feeling irritated by the very people you're supposed to embrace with unconditional love.

You wonder: Have I become arrogant? Am I judging people? Has something gone wrong with my awakening? But what you're experiencing isn't failure or spiritual pride—it's a natural and inevitable consequence of waking up while others remain asleep.

In this profound teaching, Alan Watts reveals why awakening creates incompatibility with unconscious people and why this dislike is actually a sign of genuine transformation.

Discover why this happens:
You've seen through illusions that others still believe in completely
You can no longer participate in the collective dream and shared delusions
People operate from unconscious patterns you now clearly perceive
Most interactions feel like meeting someone who isn't actually present
Energy vampirism becomes obvious and unbearable
Conversations about meaningless pursuits feel exhausting and false
You're being asked to care about things you've recognized as empty
Drama and unconscious emotional loops are now visible and draining
Shared reality has dissolved—you're speaking different languages
The social games you once played no longer make sense

This isn't about thinking you're better than others. You may feel tremendous compassion for those suffering in unconsciousness, but compassion doesn't require sacrificing your wellbeing or participating in patterns you've outgrown. You cannot have genuine connection with someone who isn't present, who lives entirely in thoughts and roles and mental constructs.

Before awakening, you bonded over complaints, gossip, drama, and shared illusions. Now you can see these for what they are, and you cannot unsee them. The spell has broken. You're watching actors in a film you can no longer pretend to believe in.

Watts explains why solitude becomes necessary during this transition. You're between worlds—no longer able to participate in unconscious social reality, but not yet established in conscious relating. This loneliness is temporary but essential. You need space to integrate, to discover who you are without performing conditioned roles.

Eventually, as you stabilize in awakened awareness, you develop what might be called spiritual immunity. You can be present with unconsciousness without being pulled into it. And you begin attracting different relationships—rare conscious connections based on genuine presence rather than shared illusion.

One authentic connection with another aware being is worth a thousand superficial relationships with people who are still asleep.

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This content is intended for educational and spiritual purposes only. The voice and presentation are AI-generated, inspired by the philosophical teachings and ideas of Alan Watts. This is not original audio of Alan Watts but a modern educational presentation of his timeless wisdom and philosophy.