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Yiqing's avatar

Thank you for beautifully sharing your sacred and wild stories — I look forward to more installments <3 As a non-white immigrant from a place that had gone through cultural and spiritual ruptures, somehow I can still relate to you on the being a “spiritual orphan” even with the grounding faith and practice of Buddhism. Perhaps it could be that the Buddhism I try to practice isn’t even the morphed version that took root in my homeland, and I keep getting pulled into shamanism in my wandering mind (and life occurrences). I’m just slowly putting two and two together lately about what might be actually going on for me. All that is to say — I trust finding your presence and energies in your words is some kind of cosmic nudge.

btw, after having used the word “Woo” so many times, I just realized how it sounds like the Chinese character “巫” (wū), which is the original name for the shamanic healers/seers/knowledge holders and their practices from the peoples on the lands and places now collectively known as China. Now I have to research the etymology of the expression “Woo”!

CHEERS lady-mate

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Jo Greenwood's avatar

I dearly love—and personally connect with—your story. I, too, have felt like a spiritual orphan; drawn to shamanic work and indigenous practices despite my white heritage. I, too, struggle with the acceptability of the ‘woo’ aspects of my spirituality. Keep writing! Your work is a ray of sunshine in my life!

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