Ep 170 - Interrogating Spiritual Practices As a Woman of Color

In this episode, I'm exploring ways in which spiritual teachings and manifestation practices can intersect with activism. I'm interrogating spiritual teachings as delivered by white folks and how they leave out the part about having to exist in this three-dimensional world that includes systemic racism, an inextricable part of my own human existence. Folks of color can't just think positive thoughts to get out of oppression. At the same time, I don't want to discount how our thoughts and beliefs do create our experience of the reality we live in. So how do we bring both seemingly separate worlds together to create a way of being that actively brings about deep meaningful change toward a more just society? After all, this is where we are now, in this moment, as humans having our three-dimensional  human experience. This is our collective purpose.

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Today’s poems/ Books / Oracle / Tarot Cards mentioned:

• Oracle Card: Suit of Swords

• Poem: “Father in his own age” by EJ Koh

  
  

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