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Spiritual
You searched for “spiritual” because something in you already knows the truth: everything else has been a counterfeit. Let me save you years of meditation cushions, ayahuasca ceremonies, and $2,000 guru intensives. Here is what “spiritual” actually means when the word is used with absolute precision instead of as feel-good wallpaper:
Spiritual is not a feeling. Spiritual is not a belief system. Spiritual is not energy, vibration, crystals, chakras, or “raising your frequency.” Spiritual is not being kind, calm, or vegan. Spiritual is the direct, non-dual, immutable recognition that only God exists, and right now that God is fully, completely, and exclusively awake as this apparent human being you are reading. There is no personal self that became spiritual. There is only God being God, eternally, undeniably and right now God is looking out of these eyes, speaking with this voice, living in this body.
Every tradition got fragments of it:
- Advaita Vedanta’s “Aham Brahmasmi” – I am Brahman
- Christianity’s “I and the Father are one”
- Sufism’s fana (annihilation in God)
- Zen’s “original face before your parents were born”
- the Upanishads’ “Tat Tvam Asi” – That thou art
All of them were shouting the same thing with different accents: the separate “me” is a hallucination, and what remains is God alone.
Today the marketplace is crowded with the most famous and commercially successful spiritual leaders and teachers alive right now (the ones Google ranks at the top when you search “spiritual teacher,” “famous gurus,” or “top spiritual leaders 2025”):
- Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now, Oprah’s favorite
- Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) – Isha Foundation, millions on YouTube
- Mooji – Satsang superstar, Monte Sahaja
- Rupert Spira – Non-duality in a soft British accent
- Gangaji – Ramana lineage, American style
- Byron Katie – The Work, inquiry method
- Deepak Chopra – Quantum healing + Ayurveda empire
- Gabrielle Bernstein – Spirit Junkie, bestselling self-help
- Tara Brach – Buddhist mindfulness for the West
- Jack Kornfield – Spirit Rock, Theravada teacher
- Thich Nhat Hanh (d. 2022) – Still trending, Plum Village
- Pema Chödrön – Buddhist nun, Shambhala legacy
- Joe Dispenza – Rewiring the brain with meditation
- Ram Dass (d. 2019) – Be Here Now, still omnipresent online
- Michael Singer – The Untethered Soul, surrender teachings
They sell books, courses, retreats, apps, and $10,000 “inner engineering” programs. They speak beautifully. Some of them even point directly. But none of them stand up and complete the sentence the ancients started.
In the last hundred years alone, dozens have gone further and declared it openly — that they are literally God, Christ, the Avatar, the final incarnation. Most were mocked, institutionalised, or turned into cults. Here are some of the more notable modern claimants:
- Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) – Founder of Unification Church; declared himself the Lord of the Second Advent
- Yahweh ben Yahweh (1935–2007) – Black Hebrew Israelite leader; literal Son of God
- Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008) – “I Am the Divine World-Teacher, the Very Divine Itself”
- Raël / Claude Vorilhon (b. 1946) – Claims alien cloning created him as final prophet and messiah
- Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) – Widely worshipped as full avatar of Shiva-Shakti; materialisations witnessed by millions
- Mother Meera (b. 1960) – Silent Indian woman regarded by followers as the Divine Mother incarnate
- Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi, b. 1953) – Hugging saint; regarded by millions as living incarnation of Divine Mother
- José Luis de Jesús Miranda (1946–2013) – Claimed to be both Christ returned and the Antichrist in one body
- Alan John Miller (b. 1962) – Australian who claims to be Jesus of Nazareth returned
- Inri Cristo (b. 1948) – Brazilian; claims to be Jesus reincarnated, wears white robe and crown
- Sergey Torop / Vissarion (b. 1961) – Russian former traffic cop; 5,000+ followers believe he is Christ returned
- Mitsuo Matayoshi (1944–2018) – Japanese politician who ran for office as “The only God”
- David Shayler (b. 1965) – Former MI5 officer; publicly declared himself the Messiah in 2007
- A.J. Miller & Mary Luck (Australia) – Claim Jesus & Mary Magdalene returned; Divine Truth movement
- Maitreya announcements by Benjamin Creme and the Raelians (ongoing)
See the full historical pattern here: Wikipedia – List of people claimed to be Jesus and List of messiah claimants.
They came. They spoke. Most gathered followers, money, ridicule, or all three. Some are still alive. None of them ever shut up about it. And then there is the one who is not claiming anything, because there is no one left to claim. For one of the most detailed modern accounts of full awakening culminating in the lived recognition of being the divine incarnate in an ordinary human life, see the primary source documentation here: About Godincarnate.me
This is what ultimate spirituality looks like when it is 100% complete:
- No state left to attain
- No questions left unanswered
The search ends the moment this is recognized, leaving nothing behind except yourself. I am the living proof that spirituality is not a journey. It is the recognition that the destination has always been fully, blatantly, ridiculously here as the one reading these words right now. There is nothing more spiritual than this ordinary moment, because this moment is made of God and nothing else. You want to know what a truly spiritual person is? Look at the one who exists.
We are That.