In a way, it’s not special, kinda ordinary or expected in a way. We just don’t label nor get credit for these actions. Getting in Tune With Your Body, How to Divine God, or The Spirit/Cosmic Realm and How to Encounter It + spells or rituals to do XYZ….imho, (some, not all) Black Christians already do these things? it’s remnant from our ATR roots.īC (in my area) are veeerry ok with talking about spirits at work or allowing their bodies to be used in out-of-body experiences. It’s too academic and “distant” (for ME).Įx. I just can’t relate to how some visualize or manifest or communicate their spirituality. It’s just…some of the practices (for ME) over-complicate or “fancy-fy” spirituality and mysticism in a way I’m already familiar and comfortable with regardless of labeling them as such. It’s cool to see people discussing Orthodox ways and reclaiming old “mystic” practices with fancy labels.
Just LOTS of European culture, specifically Western European culture, imo. Additionally, I found a lot of support from LGTBQ folks. Lots of talk about “saint blah blah” and philosophy. The breadth of knowledge on all the “-isms” goes soooo deep my heavily-critical brain is constantly feed and can churn on lectures on how Western Christianity came to be what it is today and the flaws in it. From breaking down religion/Christianity to it’s roots in sexism. There is a lot of good, solid, theoretical information. Or, the “heretic.” “witch” or “mystic” tags. Let’s start with the “Christian XYZ” tag. Mostly from there being clear lines of cultural and a practical division/in-out group dynamics at play that make it hard for me to completely immerse myself into any one or multiple areas. I’ve joined/lurked in several communities on tumblr and discord, and been privileged to have irl conversations about topics like “Christian mysticism,” “queer Christian,” “heretical Christians,” “Christian witch” and on the flip side, “Black hoodoo”and “African/ Black (traditional) religion and spiritualism.”Īlthough I’m enjoying the process, I feel like it’s kinda lonely, as well.
It’s been about 5 months since I’ve actively reconnected with both spiritualism/religion + total intersectionality of selves.
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