“What does spiritual citizenship look like through a feminist lens?”
Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death.
….and experimentation with psychedelics is becoming increasingly mainstream, and considered in a positive and hopeful light.
We live in the 21st century, a brave new world wherein communication, expression, and the exchange of ideas, feelings, and information….
In Indian traditions, the spirit of sevā (Sanskrit, “selfless service”) often centers around bhakti-yogis for whom this practice is the sole aim of life.
My formulation of spiritual citizenship grew out of what I learned over two decades in Trinidad working with dynamic religious communities informed by ancestral and contemporary West African faith practices….
The critical thing to remember is that acceptance embraces the moment, the body, the mind, and the experience for what it is. It doesn’t try to change it at that moment. This acceptance creates an emotional platform in which changes can be internalized for the better.
Often aligned with evil, death appears as the grim reaper, the nefarious gambler, in scary movies, and in ghost stories,…