Our meditation group decided to do a group fast as spiritual practice, but two people dropped out citing medical reasons and now there's this weird tension between the 'committed' people and those who 'couldn't handle it.' The whole thing is dividing us instead of bringing us together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Collective spiritual practice becomes a source of hierarchy and exclusion rather than shared transcendence.
“Where Are You with Fasting — all traditions and the evidence?”
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