Believing the religious practices of your ancestors are evil, while believing the religious practices of those who were evil to your ancestors are divine, is wild.
Being proud of your marginalized identity doesn’t mean that you have to also be proud with your nationalism. Why? B/c nationalism is always rooted on settler colonialism.
You can be proud of your identity but not proud of what the settler governments are doing.
Our ancestors had a profound way of dealing with P.T.S.D. It was believed that after a war when a man had returned from war, before he could be accepted back into society. He had to live with a shaman for 3 months to do some spiritual cleansing.
It was said that after war, the human spirit was off balance and required to undergo some ritual in order to restore it back in harmony with nature and the community. A horn was used to draw out stagnant and dsyfunctional blood to the surface.
This is one of the ritual that was performed on the worriors to cleanse them of any mental illness and trauma that they might experience later on in life after the war.
This process was carried out by Africans long ago before it was allegedly deemed a Chinese invention. It was called "African suction cup," by the colonizers. This is one of the many practices that have been lost due to African s.lavery and colonization.
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@lilstonermom29@veronicaspeek_ https://t.co/YldUOdjtyl this might help things make sense to you. It's definitely is a different way of viewing the world and medicine.
@lilstonermom29 Chinese medicine, aryuvedic medicine, mesoamerican medicine, traditional African medicine, basically any medicine outside of the colonized western medicine sees the world this way. Decolonize friends. Open your eyes to the rest of the world.
@lilstonermom29 It's so crazy to me that people really believe we are immune to the elements and that only viruses and bacteria make you sick 🤣 ask all the ancient medicines around the world and they will tell you WIND is a pathogen that can enter the body and cause disease.
why isn’t there a rule that at least 50% of the news has to be focused on the GOOD that’s happening in the world & then the other 50% can be unbiased reporting on the other stuff (typically bad) 1/2
you wake up. turn your phone on & blast blue light all over your face. with squinted eyes, you then proceed to read everyone’s opinions, which put you right in fight or flight mode before you even get out of bed. & you wonder why you are stuck in a loop of never-ending unease.
I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income.