Soul Hijacked: Is Your Spirit Living Under Someone Else’s Control?

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🕳️ Soul Hijacked: Is Your Spirit Living Under Someone Else’s Control?

Ever felt like something deep inside you has been quietly stolen?

You wake up one day and realize your life looks nothing like the dream that once lit up your eyes. Your thoughts, your choices, even your values — they somehow drifted far from the compass of your true self.

That’s not just burnout, distraction, or bad luck.
It might be that your soul has been hijacked.


“Who’s really in control — your programmed mind or your waiting soul?”

🌱 The subtle theft of your soul

Imagine your soul as the pilot of your ship. It’s meant to steer you, keep you aligned with truth, love, and higher meaning.

But what happens when outside forces — culture, trauma, fear, even biological drives — slip into the cockpit?

Suddenly:

  • You chase success you don’t even value.

  • You numb out with dopamine hits: endless scrolling, shallow relationships, junk pleasures.

  • You defend beliefs that were implanted, not chosen.

Clifford Illis, in Soul Hijacked, puts it starkly:

“Your mind can be hacked by fear, your body can be hijacked by pleasure, but your soul? It’s only ever lost when you stop listening to it.”

🧠 Who’s really driving your mind?

We like to think we’re in control. Rational. Logical. Free.

But neuroscience says otherwise. Most of what we think are conscious choices are actually automatic scripts written by:

  • Childhood wounds

  • Genetic impulses

  • Cultural indoctrination

So while you believe you’re choosing love, that “love” might just be the brain’s addiction to familiarity — replaying old patterns because they feel safe.

While you think you’re chasing freedom, you may actually be running from discomfort, mistaking relief for liberation.

💡 Practical tip: Before making a big decision, ask:
“Is this truly aligned with my soul — or just soothing my fears?”

🥀 The morality trap: Is your goodness even yours?

This gets uncomfortable.

A hijacked soul often hides under layers of “morality.”
We obey rules we never questioned. We judge by standards we never explored.

Illis argues morality can be the most seductive hijacker of all:

“Many people mistake conditioning for conscience. They confuse trained obedience with genuine goodness. That’s why their moral outrage often serves ego more than truth.”

⚔️ The silent war for your soul

This isn’t just personal. It’s cosmic.

The idea that your soul is under siege shows up everywhere:

  • In religious language (temptation, demons, sin)

  • In spiritual traditions (Karma, Maya, Samsara)

  • Even in modern psychology (ego defense, trauma triggers, cognitive distortions).

All pointing to this:
There’s a real struggle between forces that want you small, numb, reactive — and the quiet whisper of your soul calling you higher.

🔍 How to know if your soul’s been hijacked

  • You feel a constant low-grade anxiety, even when life looks “fine.”

  • You keep betraying your own values to fit in or avoid conflict.

  • You’re obsessed with pleasure or validation, yet strangely empty.

  • Your life is filled with noise, but your inner world feels eerily silent.

Sound familiar? It might be time to stage a rescue mission.

🧘‍♂️ Reclaiming your soul: A radical act of awareness

  1. Slow down.
    Busyness is the perfect cover for a hijacked soul. Stillness brings uncomfortable truths — and also profound clarity.

  2. Question everything.
    Whose dreams are you chasing? Whose morals are you defending? Whose wounds are you protecting?

  3. Listen within.
    Not to the loud voice of fear or habit, but the subtle pull toward what is true, loving, and eternal.

💫 The deepest paradox

Maybe your soul was never truly hijacked — only buried.

The mind and body can be manipulated, but the soul is stubbornly, gloriously free. It waits. Patiently. Watching for the moment you remember who you are.

And when you do?
Everything else — the games, the noise, the false identities — falls away.

✨ In the end…

Your greatest battle isn’t against the world.
It’s to reclaim your own soul from the forces that have subtly, persistently tried to write your story for you.

“Your soul’s liberation is the quiet revolution that changes everything — without changing the world at all. It changes you.”

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