What illusions are we still clinging to – personally, culturally, politically – because the truth feels too costly to face? This episode explores The Emperor’s New Clothes as more than a children’s tale. It’s a mirror into the ways we deceive ourselves, whether in relationships, in public life, or in confronting realities like climate change.
I share a story from my own life about the painful unraveling of my first marriage, where I convinced myself to see what wasn’t there and ignore what I feared. Choosing truth over illusion was hard, even heartbreaking, but it became the soil where healing, resilience, and wholeness began to grow.
Through the lens of my Three Loves framework – love for self, love for others, and love for the Infinite – we’ll look at why truth and love must walk hand in hand. Because while illusions can feel safer, they only delay the pain. Truth, though costly at first, is what opens the way to a fuller life, and to what we’re really here to do: grow more love.
Joni Miller, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, spiritual coach, and speaker who uses her knowledge, education, and love of all things spiritual to help spiritual wanderers find a place they can call home, navigating by the light of Love. www.SpiritualGeography.net
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