Essay

Gurus Are No Longer Needed, Mother Nature Has All the Answers

We don’t need to kneel before fallible humans who are just like us

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We live in a world saturated with advice. Everyone’s an expert. Everyone’s a coach. Everyone is a guru. Everyone wants to tell you how to find the Divine,

I used to listen.

I had a Guru. Two of them, in fact. They wore white robes. They were surrounded by wafts of incense and silence, radiating a kind of holiness.

It felt like they had halos — like they saw something we, their entourage, didn’t. And so we bowed. We knelt at their feet. It was never said out loud, but it was expected.

For years, I immersed myself in their teachings. I spent long stretches of time at spiritual retreats and ashrams, including those founded by the controversial Indian guru .

I still believe Osho was one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century. His ideas on love, meditation, and society changed me. His words gave me a kind of clarity. I meditated for hours, for days, following his practices.

But then, slowly, things started to shift. I got closer to some of these spiritual leaders. And what I found wasn’t divine. It wasn’t sacred. It was…