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When You Publicly Reject Beliefs You Privately Hold

I make fun of traditional healing in public to fit in with my educated friends, but secretly I still throw bones when I need guidance and I hate myself for this dishonesty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social acceptance requires performing skepticism toward practices that privately provide meaning, creating internal divisions and authentic self-betrayal.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African traditional healing traditions?”

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