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Scenario

When spiritual practice creates hierarchy in friend groups

Our friend group started doing ayahuasca ceremonies together and it's been powerful but now there's this weird hierarchy forming where some people think they're more spiritually advanced and others feel judged, and I don't know if this is just part of the process or if we're creating harm.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sacred practices can become sources of spiritual materialism and subtle power dynamics that fragment the very communities they're meant to unite.

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Patan
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