• holygon [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone educate me on what Spiritual Bypassing is, and how it relates to White Supremacy? I’m from a quite secular place, so I can’t say that I often experience people even being spiritual at all, so this is a blind spot for me. I Googled it, but could only find vague explanations on using Spiritualism to dismiss things. I’m aware of all the other concepts, so figure I might as well educate myself on the one I’m not aware of.

    • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      One example is plastic shamans, white people appropriating deep shamanistic/indigenous belief systems into a typically grifting and very shallow new age style framework. Another good example is what’s happened with ayahuasca spiritual practices becoming mere vision tourism.