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​Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities

4/30/2023

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PEGI EYERS


Harvard Divinity School Conference 2023


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With over 100 exciting speakers, panelists, workshops and keynotes, the conference included a presentation by Pegi Eyers entitled [Un]Conscious Colonialism: Why is Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre?  You can view the full schedule and access the recordings from the HDS website here.
The theme for the spring 2023 conference hosted by Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality was the Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Three days of panels and workshops were devoted to the theme, and other aspects of alternative spirituality were offered. The conference explored a two-fold reality: alternative spiritualities can be enormously empowering for people who participate in them, but they can also be sites of deeply harmful abuses of power. Sessions explored both sides of this reality, and fostered open-hearted dialogue between those who benefited from alternative spiritualities, and those who experienced significant harm from them.

For the purposes of the conference, “alternative spiritualities” were broadly defined in keeping with the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality’s mission to support the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions. The conference was free to the public, but registration was required to access the events and recordings
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[un]Conscious Colonialism –
​Why is “Native Spirituality” a Pagan Genre?


ABSTRACT Entrenched definitions and genres are incredibly hard to dismantle, even those created in the early days of modern Pagan and New Age modalities. And yet what if those original definitions were blind spots rooted in an [un]conscious colonialism? Found within Pagan and New Age spaces for decades now, the subgenre of “Native Spirituality” has been a convenience directed entirely by white people. In today’s hopeful climate of Turtle Island First Nations resurgence and healing, and in alignment with anti-racism, social justice and uncolonization efforts everywhere, the interrogation of the “Native Spirituality” subgenre is long overdue. Led by a white anti-racism educator and scholar-practitioner of the ancestral arts, [Un]Conscious Colonialism – Why is ‘Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre? will conclude with a loving encouragement to examine the harm in our spiritual practice(s) and make change. Today, examining our white privilege and challenging racism, have become positive aspects of a holistic spirituality.

Presenter Pegi Eyers is the author of the award-winning book ​Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, a survey on social justice, white studies, intercultural competency, uncolonization, nature spirituality, sacred land, the ancestral arts and the holistic principles of sustainable living. Pegi self-identifies as a Celtic Animist, and is an advocate for the recovery of authentic ancestral wisdom and traditions for all people. She lives in the countryside on the outskirts of Nogojiwanong in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg territory (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), on a hilltop with views reaching for miles in all directions.
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