It is inevitable that we bring our conditioning, beliefs, and life experience to the path, but inner work involves an examination of the way that we relate to spiritual teaching through the filters of mind. This talk covers six basic traps outlined by Lee Lozowick: unrealistic expectations, a tendency to idolize, mistaking intellectual understanding for bodily knowledge, the seduction of peak experience, thinking one is a special case, and needing approval rather than trusting one’s work. Karuna Fedorschak was a singer and musician in the Western Baul bands LGB and Small Change and author of Parenting: A Sacred Task.