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When spiritual travel feels like cultural appropriation

I spent three weeks in India trying to find spiritual meaning and came back feeling like a fraud who just paid money to appropriate someone else's culture for Instagram content.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The commodification of transcendence has collided with genuine seeking, leaving behind questions about authenticity and belonging.

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