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Chatbots communicate with spirits?
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-21700-post-91504.html
INTRO: In recent years, a new practice has begun to take hold. People describe it as a communion with spirits and noncorporeal entities via chatbot—a kind of scrying, a staring into a digital mirror that stares back, likened by turns to channeling, séance, revelation... (MORE - details)
Halloween and queer spirituality
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/...irituality
KEY POINTS: While mainstream religions tend to be hostile to queer people, Halloween can provide a sacred space for them. The meaning of Halloween resonates deeply with queer people's experiences of living in the in-between. Halloween can provide a space of belonging as it celebrates being an "outsider" and living on the edge. Honouring queer lineage is a profound way to embrace queer sacredness.
EXCERPT: Across many cultures and eras, people who did not fit neatly into binary gender categories were perceived as higher spiritual beings and healers. These traditions vary widely in different communities but they acknowledge that embracing the in-between and the edges of human experience can represent a holy space.
The witch is one of Halloween's most prominent figures. For centuries the witch was a symbol of societal fear: the woman outside male control, the healer outside the church, the person who refused to conform. Those accused of witchcraft were often people on the margins. It is not surprising that many queer people intimately associate with her.
Modern paganism and Wicca offer queer people spiritual paths that celebrate the body, pleasure and nature, rather than condemning them. Some of these traditions were shaped by queer and feminist practitioners from the start, blending pagan rituals with queer liberation. Many covens and circles now centre trans, non-binary and queer/LGBTQ+ members explicitly.
In these communities, Samhain is often the most important festival of the year, sometimes described as the witches' new year. To celebrate it as a queer person can honour a figure once used to persecute outsiders, and reclaiming our right to the sacred... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-21700-post-91504.html
INTRO: In recent years, a new practice has begun to take hold. People describe it as a communion with spirits and noncorporeal entities via chatbot—a kind of scrying, a staring into a digital mirror that stares back, likened by turns to channeling, séance, revelation... (MORE - details)
Halloween and queer spirituality
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/...irituality
KEY POINTS: While mainstream religions tend to be hostile to queer people, Halloween can provide a sacred space for them. The meaning of Halloween resonates deeply with queer people's experiences of living in the in-between. Halloween can provide a space of belonging as it celebrates being an "outsider" and living on the edge. Honouring queer lineage is a profound way to embrace queer sacredness.
EXCERPT: Across many cultures and eras, people who did not fit neatly into binary gender categories were perceived as higher spiritual beings and healers. These traditions vary widely in different communities but they acknowledge that embracing the in-between and the edges of human experience can represent a holy space.
The witch is one of Halloween's most prominent figures. For centuries the witch was a symbol of societal fear: the woman outside male control, the healer outside the church, the person who refused to conform. Those accused of witchcraft were often people on the margins. It is not surprising that many queer people intimately associate with her.
Modern paganism and Wicca offer queer people spiritual paths that celebrate the body, pleasure and nature, rather than condemning them. Some of these traditions were shaped by queer and feminist practitioners from the start, blending pagan rituals with queer liberation. Many covens and circles now centre trans, non-binary and queer/LGBTQ+ members explicitly.
In these communities, Samhain is often the most important festival of the year, sometimes described as the witches' new year. To celebrate it as a queer person can honour a figure once used to persecute outsiders, and reclaiming our right to the sacred... (MORE - missing details)