Some of Seriously You Owe Me an Apology

What I find incredible about today’s society is this: you can be open about almost any behaviour or identity and it’ll be defended in the name of personal freedom—but express genuine spiritual beliefs outside of organised religion, and suddenly it’s pathologised. Suddenly, you’ve for sure experienced psychotic breakdowns, beyond any reasonable doubt.

Let’s get something straight: my creativity, my art, my intuition—all of it is always spiritually motivated. Always. Not just when I’m invoking the Lord’s Prayer in moments of what you conveniently label as “mania.” My transcendent art? My insight? Where do you think it comes from? Thin air? No. It comes from a deep, constant spiritual connection that you clearly don’t comprehend.

I’ve never brought this up publicly because I didn’t want to cheapen something so personal, so sacred. My connection to the divine doesn’t fit into any organised thought system—and it never should. Raised by an atheist mother who despised the Catholic church, and living in an overwhelmingly secular Quebec, I’ve always been surrounded by people who reject the very idea of spirituality. But here’s the balance: my father was a lifelong yoga practitioner—not just the physical postures, but the full spiritual discipline, which he practised daily, as a way of life. His deep commitment to that path shaped my understanding of what it means to live a spiritually connected life, free from dogma but deeply rooted in mental discipline, awareness, and transcendence.

Today’s society is STARVED for spirituality. Yet, those of us who refuse to conform to an organised belief system are dismissed—our experiences deemed invalid unless stamped with an approved label.

Recently, I shared moments of profound spiritual significance with some of you in private—moments where I allowed myself to be vulnerable—and you had the nerve to reduce those experiences to mental illness. To “psychosis.” Lazy. Dismissive. Offensive.

Make it make sense: you’ll defend almost any form of self-expression these days, but genuine spirituality? That, you pathologise.

I don’t need your approval to believe what I believe. But some of you? You owe me an apology.

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Image: Detail from “Flight of Fancy”—something I pulled out of thin air in a moment of random inspiration. 🙄

(No. Let me spell it out for you: it was divine inspiration. My work has always been spiritually motivated. Always. Enough said.)

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I know some of you are reading this. You know who you are. Do better. 😐

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