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When sacred practices get commodified by cultural outsiders

My meditation teacher keeps appropriating Hindu concepts while mispronouncing everything and charging white people hundreds of dollars for my grandmother's prayers.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual colonization transforms sacred traditions into consumer products while erasing their cultural origins and meanings.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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