enzo but witchcraft

南無阿彌陀佛 // blk, pureland buddhist

[blacklocs]

It’s black history month and here is your friendly reminder that non black people cannot practice Hoodoo.

[witches-ofcolor]

Manifestation was and is often a tool used within the African American community. The strong belief that "we shall overcome", "god will provide" and that intense belief in a better life for us will eventually see us at a better place was an integral part in our history both during slavery and after.

Manifestation in this sense is defined as an intense belief that what we want will happen, especially if we put ourselves and our energy in this mindset. Are there downfalls to manifestation, absolutely, but I think painting it under one color overlooks the role it's played in other communities.

I've seen blankets statements about manifestation, but I also want to point out for people and communities that are historically disadvantaged, that this mindset can be incredibly helpful and a source of motivation. You know, just like magic is.

The point is to look at manifestion outside of the new age trend, and understand that blanket statements about how horrible it is and the people who use it are ignores the integral part it plays in certain non-white spiritualities. I've seen so many long think pieces on it, and most fail to leave out this aspect

Same with the law of attraction

[creature-wizard]

Yes, it's true that many concepts and ideas found within New Age beliefs aren't "new." Many of them can be traced back hundreds, sometimes even thousands of years. The thing that makes New Age so insidious is what it does with them. Also? It just has a lot of shitty beliefs and attitudes packed into it, in general. New Age rips numerous people's spiritual beliefs out of context and tries to shoehorn them into a culturally Christian apocalyptic framework. New Age acts like it knows other people's own spiritual traditions better than they do. New Age promotes cultural colonialism and genocide by positing that people cannot advance and grow spiritually, or at the very least cannot "ascend to 5D," without adopting its beliefs and practices. New Age promotes anti-environmentalism by telling people that climate change is just part of the Earth's "shift to 5D." This no different from fundamentalist Christians saying that climate change is just God's punishment/a sign of the End Times. New Age discourages genuine scholarship and promotes conspiracy theories because genuine archaeological evidence, real ancient texts, etc. etc. constantly contradict their beliefs. This is because New Age is extremely literalist - Atlantis can't just be a metaphor to them; it must have really existed. New Age moralizes poverty, illness, and disability by blaming these things on having "a low vibrational frequency." This is no different from fundamentalist Christians telling people that bad things happen to them because they've made God angry. This post is not an exhaustive list of each and every issue with New Age. This is just a teeny tiny sampling of everything wrong with this movement. The tippy tippy top of the iceberg. If you want to learn more about what's wrong with it, I suggest you start researching the New Age to Alt Right pipeline. And if you think far right ideology is anything new in New Age? You haven't dug deep enough.

[jijirululing]

ong,, literally been saying this 4 the longest

[jijirululing]

first post but also frustration LMAO

hii lol

been observing witchblr from afar but realised i could literally be using this to connect w ppl anyways getting to the frustration part,,, i'm a pureland buddhist. i feel as though i've literally found all i can on esoteric buddhism/taoism and buddhist magic and it's literally so little LMAO

does anyone else practice something like that...?