I guess it should never be surprising when this happens, but my practice lately has me suspecting that honest aspirants augmenting whatever their native resources are with new spiritual skills tend to overcomplicate something.
Many a spiritual or religious system will provide temporal or seasonal cycles to guide augmentations to practice, but these can be held too rigidly, as structures, rather than as guidance for aligning environmental factors with the ultimate guide of practice: the body.
@taalumot this resonates with me so hard. the last couple years for me have been a process of re-integrating with my ancestral practice, realising that it’s between me and my ancestors and entirely extricable from whatever weird religious/political agenda my coreligionists possess
@pujz I sure do
@taalumot nonetheless it is sometimes the more painful option, to engage and take personally the strange contortion of your texts towards essentially fascistic ends. do you have any advice for dealing with this?