You’ve been sold a story:
That if you meditate hard enough, chant the right mantras, or follow the right guru, you’ll finally arrive — at peace, at bliss, at some glittering finish line called “enlightenment.”

You’ve been told that ego is the enemy, that suffering can be transcended, that awakening is just a retreat, a breathwork session, or a plant medicine ceremony away.

This book calls bullshit. I call bullshit.

The Lie of Enlightenment: The Myth of Modern Spirituality is not another self-help guide wrapped in Sanskrit. It’s not here to comfort you with platitudes or tell you to “trust the universe.” It’s a reckoning — a raw, fearless exploration of how spirituality has become a commodity, how modern seekers have been trapped chasing light, and what it really means to stop running.

Written for the disillusioned, the burned-out, the ones who’ve bowed at too many altars only to find the same hunger gnawing at their insides, this book dismantles the fantasy of modern enlightenment. It exposes:

• How Western consumerism turned sacred traditions into spiritual branding.

• Why many so-called gurus are just as lost as the people they lead — or worse, dangerous.

• The hidden addiction behind chasing awakening, and the harm it causes to the soul.

• Why “transcending ego” is often a spiritual bypass, not a solution.

• How to stop chasing perfection and start living with raw, messy, honest presence.

But this isn’t a book of cynicism. It’s a book of liberation.
A torch for those ready to burn down the illusions and find meaning in the only place it ever lived: this moment, this breath, this fragile, this beautiful messy human life.

If you’re tired of spiritual performance.
If you’re ready to stop chasing ghosts.
If you’re hungry for truth, not trophies —
then this book is for you.

Come. Let’s walk together — no maps, no masters, no promises.
Just the courage to look, to feel, and to live awake in the world as it is.