Have You Met the Spiritual Love&Light Activist Yet?
You will recognize her immediately.
She just got back from a retreat. Possibly in Peru, although the exact geography is not important. What matters is that the medicine found her. It called her, actually. She was ready.
Before that there was Costa Rica. Before Costa Rica there was Bali. Before Bali there was a yoga teacher training in India. Before the yoga teacher training there was a burnout at a marketing agency that revealed her true path: spiritual love&light activism.
The spiritual love&light activist believes she is here for a mission. Healing herself, you, and the world. Not the low-vibrational kind that involves studying power, history, or systems of oppression. Her mission is high vibrational. She raises the frequency.
Racism, sexism, ableism, colonialism — she has heard of these things, of course. But she experiences them primarily as very dense energies. And she is committed to staying in the light.
The spiritual love&light activist does not like complex thoughts. She prefers alignment. She’s all about consciousness. She’s into living here and now.
If someone mentions structural racism, she will smile with a hand on her heart and say: “Just breathe deeply. Hold it for three seconds. And let gooo.”
If someone mentions patriarchy, she gently suggests that working with the divine feminine is really powerful.
If someone mentions colonialism, she will explain that we are all one and that separation is an illusion created by the ego.
She has replaced political analysis and — well — a bit of common sense with astrology (a mix of Western astrology, affirmations, angel readings, and tarot) and calls it ancient wisdom. Entire histories of violence can be reorganized into something that Mercury did while retrograde.
The spiritual love&light activist travels a lot. Mostly to places where other people’s spiritual traditions are available via Whatsapp.
She drinks ceremonial cacao and connects with Pachamama.
She chants mantras and honors someone else’s ancestors.
She attends festivals where several thousand people gather to dance ecstatically to drum rhythms (and clutches her bag a little tighter when a Black man stands next to her at the bus stop). There is a lot of dancing. A lot of hugging. And a lot of declarations about how everyone is so beautiful, so divine, so full of love&light.
You might think someone this devoted to love would occasionally mention when love is absent. Like in the face of injustice. Or at least notice the homeless person outside the yoga café. But the spiritual love&light activist prefers to talk about love. Love and light, specifically. These two substances — three, if you count ayahuasca, which saved her life — she believes, are extremely powerful tools for healing the world.
Especially when applied to all those low-vibrational people still complaining about injustice instead of practicing gratitude. The spiritual love&light activist is very serious about gratitude. Every morning she writes down three things she is thankful for:
The universe.
Her ayahuasca integration coach.
And the opportunity to work remotely from neighborhoods where locals can no longer afford to live.
Sometimes she offers workshops. Topics include things like female embodiment with cacao, awakening the divine feminine and attracting your soul mate, and manifesting abundance while traveling. The workshops are not cheap, but healing rarely is. Neither is her next trip to Mexico.
During these gatherings she explains, very gently, that suffering is often a matter of perception. If humanity could simply shift its mindset and open its heart, many global problems would dissolve naturally.
It is a very beautiful theory. It also has the remarkable advantage of never requiring her to examine her own position in the world.
If someone cautiously suggests that borrowing (some might call it stealing) spiritual practices from colonized cultures might be complicated, she smiles with great compassion. “You’re in a victim mindset,” she explains.
She prefers empowerment. Empowerment looks like sage bundles, goddess archetypes, and the occasional shamanic drum circle in a renovated warehouse in Berlin.
It looks like liberation that fits nicely into a €1200 tantra weekend retreat. (Vegan food and sexual satisfaction not included.)
The spiritual love&light activist is absolutely certain she is healing herself, you, and the world. Mostly by decorating herself and the world with crystals and feathers. And selling them to you in her online shop.
And yet she is very busy. Very convinced that the planet is currently ascending into love&light. And of course she, as healing priestess, is part of it. Part of the great transformational shift, which brings nothing but love&light.
Which is fortunate.
If this resonated with you, moved you, or made you pause and reflect – consider this your cue. I’ve set up a virtual tip jar via Buy Me a Coffee. No monthly commitments, no strings, no memberships required.
Your sweet kindness helps keep the thoughts flowing, the energy exchange intact, and the glow of my inner goddess alive. It won’t fix capitalism, but it might buy me five minutes of joy (or at least a cortado).
Gracias. Thank you. Jërëjëf. Merci. Obrigada. Danke. Arigatō. Medaase. Grazie. Hvala. Tack. Asante. Shukran. Teşekkürler. Dziękuję.
