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When spiritual seeking becomes cultural appropriation

I started burning sage and calling it smudging but realized I'm mixing up different indigenous traditions and now I feel like I'm being spiritually disrespectful to everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Authentic spiritual hunger can inadvertently lead to inappropriate borrowing from multiple traditions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — Africa?”

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