Maybe it’s because I’m Pagan — the New Agey mishmash of “good karma, direct connection to Source, agape love, and selfless acts” feels a bit gross and appropriative (not going to go so far as to call it cultural/religious appropriation, but that’s terms from three different belief systems + “selfless acts”), thrown together to sound like a spell/banishment ritual.
It feels like mockery of the LW, *especially* since they explicitly stated that their goal was to achieve peace with the presence of their parents’ spirits around them and their children, not to have a made-up exorcism.
I feel like therapy, with a professional who is open to alternative spiritual practices and beliefs, would be a better solution.
Salt and crystals may be comforting in terms of setting visible barriers in private space, but what the LW needs most is the ability to draw boundaries around their privacy and comfort while going about ordinary life in their home and inside their mind.
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It feels like mockery of the LW, *especially* since they explicitly stated that their goal was to achieve peace with the presence of their parents’ spirits around them and their children, not to have a made-up exorcism.
I feel like therapy, with a professional who is open to alternative spiritual practices and beliefs, would be a better solution.
Salt and crystals may be comforting in terms of setting visible barriers in private space, but what the LW needs most is the ability to draw boundaries around their privacy and comfort while going about ordinary life in their home and inside their mind.