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Conventionally, it is also used to describe capitalist or commercial efforts such as " new age " bookstores and wealthy lecturers on spirituality.

Also it might mean the attempt to build up a list of credentials or accumulate teachings in order to present oneself as a more realized or holy person.

Author Jorge Ferrer equates the terms, though others draw a distinction that spiritual narcissism is believing that one deserves love and respect or is better than another because one has accumulated spiritual training instead of the belief that accumulating training will bring an end to suffering.