The Everyday Mystic

Why Success Feels Empty...And the Questions That Fix It w/ Corissa Saint Laurent

• Corissa Saint Laurent • Episode 121

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We are taught that if we check all the boxes (good grades, good job, good family) we will finally feel complete. But for many high-achievers, reaching the summit only reveals a startling truth: the view is great, but the feeling is hollow.

In this solo episode, Corissa Saint Laurent tackles the crisis of meaning that often follows material success. She explains why ascending to leave the body is a misunderstanding of spirituality, and why the real work is actually about descending into the fullness of being human.

Corissa breaks down the identity trap: the dangerous habit of confusing who we are with what we do. Whether you're a CEO or someone struggling with addiction, she argues that both are just costumes hiding the same divine nature. This episode is a permission slip to stop reinforcing the model you were given and start remembering who you actually are.

In this episode, she covers:

  • The Ascension Myth: Why trying to escape the human experience is actually a form of spiritual bypassing, and why true divinity is found in the body.
  • The Success/Failure Coin: How the high-achieving CEO and the person at rock bottom are often asking the exact same question: "Is this all there is?"
  • Identity Shedding: Why we pack titles, accolades, and traumas around us like armor, and the courage it takes to strip them away.
  • The Better Experience Protocol: Moving beyond the abstract goal of Oneness to the practical goal of simply having a better Tuesday.
  • Knowledge vs. Wisdom: The crucial difference between reading about spirituality and actually embodying it through experience.

Notable Quotes:

  • "If the purpose here was just to have a spiritual experience, none of us would be here. We would all be off in our spirit light form." — Corissa Saint Laurent
  • "Your true state isn't the person who gets angry in traffic... those are all human states that have been programmed." — Corissa Saint Laurent
  • "Knowledge is just information. Wisdom is embodied truth." — Corissa Saint Laurent

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Corissa Saint Laurent:

Hey beautiful souls, I wanted to talk today about the importance of, or I guess the meaning behind getting in touch with your higher self, attuning to your higher self, becoming one with your true self and your divine nature, which is what we talk about here on the Everyday Mystic, but why? Why do that? Why is that the goal? What's the purpose? What's the benefits? Because ultimately, most of us humans are going to be thinking, well, what's in it for me? Why do all this hard work? Go through this dark night of the soul and do all of this soul searching and all of this difficult stuff if it isn't making things better. You're listening to The Everyday Mystic, where we share advice and stories grounded in the practical and supercharged by the spiritual. I'm your host, Carissa St. Laurent, and I'm on a mission to demystify the mystical and transform your everyday life into one of greater meaning, higher purpose, and true joy. If you're ready to tap into your inner wisdom and the energy of all that is, you're in the right place, and we're so happy you're here. Let's get this party started. So that's ultimately the goal is to make life here better. A lot of people think spirituality or look at spirituality as the cleansing of your soul or the enlightenment of your being to your spirit form so that you then ascend into that state, that spiritual nature where you actually leave the planet. You leave this human experience, you fly off into whether what do you want to call it? Heaven, nirvana, the cosmos, the universe, other dimensions. Within the everyday mystic life, we can do that. We can absolutely travel through dimensions and experience oneness with source, God, the universe. But is that the goal? I don't believe it is. I believe the goal is to have that experience so that we can then make our human experience better. We glean from those experiences of oneness, of bliss, of pure love and peace. And we take that feeling and we inject it into our everyday life. If the purpose here was just to have that spiritual experience, none of us would be here. We would all be off in our spirit light form and doing that thing. And there certainly are souls who've chosen to do that. But if you've chosen to be here, chosen to have this a human experience, we are choosing to have this set of contrasts, this set of lessons, these experiences of actually embodying light, embodying something that doesn't have any normally constraints. But now we're constraining that light into this package, right? Into your package, into the package of all your neighbors' friends and family. And through the packaging of the light, we get to experience the human dramas, the good, the bad, the ugly. And if we want there to be more good than bad or ugly, then we seek union with our true self, the self that is source embodied here in this form. Not to leave and escape this form, but to, as I mentioned, have that better experience, actually be able to be here in a challenging place and be in that state of joy, bliss, love, peace, harmony, feeling fully alive to the experience. Now, if that's not a test for most humans, then I don't know what is, because this is a dark, challenging, and interesting place, depending on what day you ask me. If you ask me today, this is a place that feels like a playground of experience and joy. And there's something to be said for when you overcome challenges where that reward is so much sweeter. The outcome of you going through the roller coaster ride and then getting to the end is like, whew, wow. That was fun. That was exhilarating. That felt amazing, that felt alive. So if we want to have a better human experience here, just take away all the other stuff of even believing that, well, our purpose here is to come into oneness with our divine nature so that we can have a better experience. Forget all the oneness stuff. Forget all the true self-divine nature stuff. If you want to have a better experience here, make that the goal. Having a better experience here is absolutely attainable. It is 100% within your power to create incrementally better experiences for yourself and for everybody around you. How do we do that then? How do we do it when we are in a state of panic? When we're in a state of depression, when we're in a state of complete self-destruction, when we are at our lowest low. Well, for anyone who's been there, you've had an invitation at that point to rise up from that place. And most people who are here to tell us about it are in an incrementally better place because they got to that lowest low. And we all don't have to get to the lowest low. We can recognize today, right now, that you could be feeling better, thinking better, behaving better, living better. And what does that betterment look like for you? What does that better state or set of conditions feel like to you? What are those better thoughts that you could have, that you know you could have, that maybe you're not quite living up to at the moment? What are those better habits, actions, behaviors that you could step into and actually embody a better version of yourself that isn't reliant on this item or that person or those texts or somebody saying yes to you, whatever it might be. We get into oneness and we step into our divine nature through remembrance. It isn't, well, we've got to do all of this jumping through the hoops and gaining these rewards and uh pleasing God or doing anything where we are earning that state. We are simply remembering that state of being as our true state. In that remembrance of our true state, we then get to live in our true power, which is a powerful being that gets to choose, that gets to say, I want to feel differently, I want to think differently, I want to act differently, I want to behave differently, I want to have different circumstances, I want to be in a different experience. Let me create that. We come from pure creation, the energy of creation, which is the energy of love. We come from that. So when we talk about remembering our divine nature, it's just remembering that. It's remembering that that's where we come from, that's who we are. And that's truly our true state. Your true state isn't that annoyed person who can't stand their coworker. Your true state isn't the person who gets angry in traffic. Your true state isn't the person who gets hurt when someone doesn't call or text them back. Your true state isn't any of those, we'll just encapsulate them as low vibe energies. Those are all your human states that have been learned and have been programmed and have been habituated over time. And the reason we can see all of this and know this is that you could take two people who the same thing happens to, one of them reacts like it's the end of the world, and the other person's just like, no big deal. But maybe take that person who thinks it's no big deal in that situation and compare them to somebody else in another situation, and that person's flying off the handle, and that other person's like, no big deal. It's all subjective. It's all subjective to our own set of experiences that we've had in our human form. So why then do we seek the oneness, the union with our true self, our true form? So we can remember that we're not our stories, that we're not the things that happen to us. We aren't the relationships that have occurred in our human experience. We aren't our job, we aren't our things that we do and produce, we're not our activities, we're not our family, we're not where we live, we're not what we own, we're not any of those things. And yet, most of us go through life thinking that that's who we are. That's the identity that we've constructed are all those things that we kind of pack around us to project out to people. This is who I am. I'm a straight A student, I'm a model employee, I am a CEO, I am a degenerate, I'm a drunk, I'm a loser. Whatever the stuff that you have packed around you, held on to because of your story, that's what you're projecting out to people. And most people think, yeah, okay, that is who they are, because they're also living from the compartmentalized stories and the identities that have formed because of that programming and that belief. So their person who identifies themselves and their job is relating to this person over here who's identifying themselves with their job, and they're just cruising along that way, thinking that that's who they are. But if you're listening to this and you know that's not who you are, you know that there's more to you and that there's more to life than those things you've accumulated and those titles that you have, and even the relationships that you've built and the clothes that you wear and the places that you go, all of those externalities are not you. They're projections of a persona of you. And until we get into full state of remembrance or a full state of presence, and what is that being present to? It's being present to your true nature, being present to ourselves as divine and ourselves as an embodiment of source. When we get comfortable and back to that knowing, because we came in knowing all that. We came in in that form. So once we get back to it, again, nothing you have to earn. It's just something that you have to remember. And I'm not saying the remembering isn't work, it is because there's so much programming that's happened to you, to me, to all of us over time. There's so many distractions that are around you and around me and around us all the time. There's plenty here within this earthly plane keeping us away from our divine nature, from our true self, and ultimately from source, God, the universe, and what it truly is, which is a loving energy, an energy of creation. We don't create things to hate them, we create things to love them. We create things out of love because we want to see it in reality, in a way that we can actually interact with and experience through our senses here that we have in this realm. So getting back to that true nature self, it's getting back to our self as pure love. It's getting back to ourself as disidentified from mom, CEO, angry driver, cum laudy graduate, somebody who is an alcoholic, whatever. The identity forms are none of them are who you truly are. The remembrance of who we truly are allows us to live out this state of being in a better way because when we identify with those, we'll just call them false selves or persona selves, ego selves, these human aspects of who we are, we then spend our life spinning our wheels trying to reinforce that. So let's look at on the positive side. So you have led a life that is exemplary to other humans. You have reached a pinnacle of your own production, and you've done it in a way that pleases society. They say, good for you. Here's some more rewards for that behavior. Great job. We can tie ourselves, pack around us all of those bits of identity and think, hey, I'm doing pretty well as a human. This is pretty awesome. Look what I've done. But talk to, and I have talked to hundreds of them, people who are absolutely that model of a person, and they're not happy, not satisfied, don't feel like their life has any meaning or purpose, feel lost, and get to the same question as somebody on the other end of the coin or on the other side of the coin might get to, which is is this all there is? That's an amazing question to ask. It's a great place to get to. Somebody on, let's call it the negative side of the coin could also get to that question. They have drunk themselves to oblivion. They've lost all their money through gambling. They have no relationships because everybody doesn't trust them anymore. And they're they are alone. They are living out what looks like to society and feels like to themselves a horrible life. A life that is tragic and a life that doesn't feel good. And they get to the same point if they're lucky, of saying, is this really all there is? Can this be all that life is? That question is going to get both of those people actually truly on the right path of not pursuing the degrees and not therefore reinforcing the model that they were given. Degrees are just titles, right? They're just saying proof that I'm a good person, bigger houses, more grand vacations, all of that. And then the person over here, they're reinforcing the model that they were given. You're a loser, you're no good, you don't have anyone in your life that loves you. You should just go and die. That model, they're just reinforcing all of that through all their feelings, thoughts, behaviors, saying, Yeah, see, see, all of that is true, all of this is true until it's not, until you get to a point of where you go, is this all there is? So that question can be a beautiful opening for you to start really questioning. Really questioning, who am I really? What is this place really? What am I doing here? Really? I'm not here to accumulate a bunch of things. I'm not here to dig myself into more ditches. I'm here for something else. What is this? When you start asking those big questions, that's what leads you back to the true self, leads you back to pure presence, leads you back to a state of oneness. I can tell you all of this, I can say these words, you can read them in other books, you can hear them from other teachers, you can get all this knowledge, but the journey is the experience, which is the necessity to get the actual wisdom. Knowledge is just information. Wisdom is embodied truth of where you actually have lived it and know it, and can say, without a doubt, that's not all there is. This is who I am, and this is what I'm here for. I hope that this conversation today, this discussion, these words have opened you up to furthering your search. Or maybe it's opened you up to understanding that there really is no search at all, that this whole thing is a coming home to ourselves. And the more we strip away the baggage that is all of these identity packets and all of these personas and all of these things that we think we are, when we are brave enough to let those go, knowing that we're not going to disappear, knowing that we're still gonna be here. And actually, the you that's here is the real you. And so that's the you that gets to then shine and gets to be in the most beautiful experience of this life, not the one that's encumbered by all of those little packets or things that you've around you and project out that offer protection, that offer safety, that offer you something to put out in the world because you don't know necessarily who you are yet. So there isn't anything wrong with any of that. It's all just part of the journey. If you want to further your journey with me, with us, dive into more episodes on the podcast. And if you want to go deeper with me, check out the mentorship that I offer at carissaintlaurent.com slash mentorship. The link is in the show notes. I can offer you a hand, some guidance. Can't walk your journey for you, but I can absolutely be with you along the way to give you insight, to point you potentially in certain directions you may not have experienced yet, and give you some of my own wisdom that I've learned and gleaned over the years. So check that out. Contact me if you have any questions. Questions and have a beautiful, blessed day.