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.
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.
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.
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Ah I see. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t some specific thing that I wasn’t aware of. I appreciate the answer, thanks!
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.