Modern spirituality

It is often said that this where we are now is a moment of spiritual revival. The mainstreaming of tools like astrology and tarot, the taking up of the symbol of the witch as an acceptable feminine archetype, workplaces hiring “spiritual consultants” to imbue their offices with meaning and ritual, the common use of language around “energy” and “the

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The witch has turned from being a figure of alienation and marginalization to one of aspiration. No longer does the witch manage the divide between the material and the divine, acting as an intermediary. She’s just another identity that requires only declaration and no real action, like feminist , like creative . The witch without knowledge is just

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According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d call holiness, or purity, or something like that. “Nature,” with a capital N, [has taken] the place of God. In a secular society, we don’t look to religions to tell us what to eat or how to heal

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I just kind of know that there’s a Universal Consciousness, that we’re all a part of it, and that the world is more magical than we’ve been led to believe.

This is not my own idea. It’s not even a new idea. It’s a very old one. This is what Jesus was saying, and the Buddha, and Rumi. It is the Perennial Philosophy: all major religious and spiritual

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In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.

The repetition of the word “immersed” is interesting, as it suggests this is not something these women studied, that instead it was a liquid medium they splashed around in – maybe something like the therapeutic bath Higgie takes, describing it with more depth and in greater length than she goes into the religious beliefs of any of these artists --

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