General Discussion

Before making most major decisions. It's how I got into Nvidia stock. Bones and egg shells.

The Noble Savage trope is always so . . . cringingly patronizingly racist.

And think of how it endures when any other religion is viewed skeptically. No, no. This magic sky spirit is different!

Yeah yeah. I once watched shaman try to shake rattles and smoke at cancer.

It went exactly as expected.

Mix in how much of this spirituality and religion is mostly made up and sold to westerners as enlightened gaia spiritualism. A lot of Native cultures were completely erased during the genocides and the plagues. Entire histories wiped out to the point that a lot of the traditions and religious beliefs died out in the 17th and 18th centuries. Old people don't do so well in a pandemic, and that's where the bulk of oral history was kept. Not a lot of it endured.

Which leaves a great, big massive hole through which grifters could enter. And boy howdy did they. To the unfortunate gullibility of spiritually starved westerners who are just wandering around New Mexico trying to feel something.