Meaning out of Disruption- Spiritual responses to Racism & Self-reflection

Published: June 20, 2020, 9:31 p.m.

Being a Spiritual Leader, Teacher, and Advocate I am duty-bound to actively explore the contrasts that live within myself and the Spiritual community. 

As a community that values positivity, peace, and collective unity, we often default or BYPASS the contrasts that our human experiences offer. This is a danger and area of incomplete and unwise thinking and acting that calls for honest and truthful exposure. Spiritual bypassing creates harm, resentment, and is a place that offers further harm especially to those traumas that run deep with individuals and the collective as a whole.

The very real and continued traumas that BIPOC and other minorities experience daily in their lives and communities cannot be swept away with niceties and flip remarks of, "love, light, peace and unity,"  while at the same time advocating for change and "love of all human beings."

It is time for us as leaders and members of the space we promote as "safe," "compassionate," "welcoming," and "inclusive," to live honestly with ourselves and with our Brothers & Sisters in communities of color, ethnicity, and culture. 

Self-examination of our own biases, and the willingness to listen and witness the lived experiences of Brothers & Sisters without diminishing, rationalizing or reducing them for our own comfort, is spiritualism with integrity. If we seek true healing, it must occur through the honest naming of offenses conscious or not; before any repair can begin.

We owe that to ourselves, those around us, and The Collective. 

~Raelin Saindon

Healing Channel of WE are WE Consciousness & The Healing Space

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