#Be spiritual all you want. Don't do it through vailed neocolonial romanticised stuff

[mali-umkin]

I present to you two formulas that are different in form but virtually identical:

Self-help + mindfulness + karma + self-enlightenment + yoga = white bhuddism

Bonus points: astrology, psychedelics

Dancing around the fire + "ancestral" + any Celtic symbol + fairies + paganism + holistic living = Celtic spirituality

Bonus points: LOTR stuff, ogham, crystals, manifestation

#I'm truly tired #19th century orientalism never died it evolved #The combination of pseudo science cultural fetishism and paternalist cherry picking drives me crazy #Be spiritual all you want. Don't do it through vailed neocolonial romanticised stuff #Bhuddism #Celtic cultures #As someone raised in Bhuddist culture I can tell you your self-centered colonial fantasy won't survive a visit to Cambodia lmao #“People​ have always done this” indeed. And others have called them out. Particularly in the case of celtic cultures this fetishism while #the actual tradition bearers and speakers struggle to survive makes me sick. You invent a culture that never existed on one that still is #here but is far less glamorous or useful to you.