Beautiful beautiful! As an ex Catholic your account of spiritual vacancy (and the complex feelings following) during the communion ritual resonated deeply. Thank you for your words!
Colonialism is about owning people, land, and thought. It’s still alive today, and a core root of slavery.
Looking a what decolonization is, can help shape your thoughts on hunger and spirituality.
Colonialism is this idea to destroy people, to take control over land and resources, then lie about the whole thing using propaganda. There’s a lot more down that path. Destroying the land and taking resources is to starve the Indigenous Peoples. Starve our identity and starve our lands to take the resources and control over land. Enslave people using creative propaganda to claim the untruth.
Destroy the spirituality of Indigenous Peoples by making their culture and heritage, disappear. We see it in the world today.
Propaganda to perpetuate, and normalize lies to radicalize the truth.
Hunger to live off the land, like their ancestors before them.
Spirituality linked to hard work and dedication through acts of love and celebration.
The colonial Christian church stole the spirituality like they stole the lands. They use their own dishonor to justify to themselves their acts of brutality.
it’s miraculous or maybe simply— an instinctual pull that this is the first thing i read after a severe mental breakdown of the existential type. i can’t even describe the feelings it stirred inside me, but if i tried it’d be something like: a mass of life-affirming inspiration and powerful memories of when i found awe in little things — and how i felt back then, craving more aliveness and finding bits of it through practicing awe — and these memories reminded me that it is possible for me too, and it’s worth it to keep on keeping on even if only out of curiosity. thank you! i wish i could tattoo this article on my brain.
“Her God is a presence; mine is a question. Maybe the ache is part of being alive. Maybe the sacred was never about certainty, but about longing well.” This perfectly encapsulates my childhood in the church. I was always waiting to feel what everybody else seemed to be feeling, but there were no ecstatic glories descending on me, just the feeling that either I was broken and didn’t belong, or that everyone was faking it so they could belong. Now I pay attention to that longing as holy in itself, and try to follow it through my own mysteries, images, and descents.
Too much excellent insight in this article to single any one thing out (though I did restack some), but wow, agreed completely on your perspective and love the way you weaved these concepts together. Thank you!
Beautiful beautiful! As an ex Catholic your account of spiritual vacancy (and the complex feelings following) during the communion ritual resonated deeply. Thank you for your words!
Thank you so much!
Nice job writing.
Colonialism is about owning people, land, and thought. It’s still alive today, and a core root of slavery.
Looking a what decolonization is, can help shape your thoughts on hunger and spirituality.
Colonialism is this idea to destroy people, to take control over land and resources, then lie about the whole thing using propaganda. There’s a lot more down that path. Destroying the land and taking resources is to starve the Indigenous Peoples. Starve our identity and starve our lands to take the resources and control over land. Enslave people using creative propaganda to claim the untruth.
Destroy the spirituality of Indigenous Peoples by making their culture and heritage, disappear. We see it in the world today.
Propaganda to perpetuate, and normalize lies to radicalize the truth.
Hunger to live off the land, like their ancestors before them.
Spirituality linked to hard work and dedication through acts of love and celebration.
The colonial Christian church stole the spirituality like they stole the lands. They use their own dishonor to justify to themselves their acts of brutality.
Loneliness is considered one of the plagues of 21st century life. It maybe one of the results of our hunger and ache for meaning?
I agree!!!
it’s miraculous or maybe simply— an instinctual pull that this is the first thing i read after a severe mental breakdown of the existential type. i can’t even describe the feelings it stirred inside me, but if i tried it’d be something like: a mass of life-affirming inspiration and powerful memories of when i found awe in little things — and how i felt back then, craving more aliveness and finding bits of it through practicing awe — and these memories reminded me that it is possible for me too, and it’s worth it to keep on keeping on even if only out of curiosity. thank you! i wish i could tattoo this article on my brain.
“Her God is a presence; mine is a question. Maybe the ache is part of being alive. Maybe the sacred was never about certainty, but about longing well.” This perfectly encapsulates my childhood in the church. I was always waiting to feel what everybody else seemed to be feeling, but there were no ecstatic glories descending on me, just the feeling that either I was broken and didn’t belong, or that everyone was faking it so they could belong. Now I pay attention to that longing as holy in itself, and try to follow it through my own mysteries, images, and descents.
Love it
"We ate the gods, but they didn’t vanish" this was such an incredible piece❤️🩹
Too much excellent insight in this article to single any one thing out (though I did restack some), but wow, agreed completely on your perspective and love the way you weaved these concepts together. Thank you!
thank you so much!!