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8) "As it turns out, Orcish Shamanism and Hayan Spiritualism have a lot of similar core concepts. I trained more closely with them, both physically and spiritually. Eventually, I could conjure and maintain tools and weaponry like Dad can. Surprisingly, it helps out in the street AND the kitchen!"
The fall was inevitable, editorially, but I was surprised by how well it worked. And there's some fun stuff around the end--the real grounded issues taking down evil Beast on the one hand, and the high mutant spiritualism on the other.
add in the way spiritualism gets a lock on so many people after the first world war because they would rather talk to ghosts than be haunted by the memories of them
QAnon, on top of its other faults, has homogenized the conspiracy theory space, filling it with the ugliest allegations possible while sanding down all the edges to make it palatable to sundowning boomers. It's a sandwich with no dressing. So of course I celebrate this new entry into the field.
Lol my dad dropping the "how important is the concept of a higher power or guiding force in the universe in your life" casually into conversation making me think he's going way deep but actually he just read a book about spiritualism being linked with decreased depression through some dubious study
This might surprise you, but the first Anti-theists in the USA were Protestant religious extremists, who didn't consider their Christian religion a religion, they considered it 'spiritualism', and used it as a weapon against Indigenous peoples, Catholics, Muslims, and more who they said were evil.
Omg my mom loves that shit. And! There’s so much popular mysticism within the membership the church leaders are warning people about false idols & stuff😅 As someone well-versed in reiki and grounding for practitioners, i love watching Mormon women lean into spiritualism and energy work.