The Voldemort of Conversations in Spiritual Spaces
There is NO world where power doesn’t exist… but how we wield it changes everything.
And honestly, by avoiding a certain topic—let’s call it the Voldemort of conversations in spiritual spaces—we might actually be avoiding our own empowerment.
There’s a huge boogeyman attitude toward ‘politics’ in spiritual circles… but here’s the thing: at its core, ‘politics’ is just how power gets centralized and how decisions are made collectively.
You know… the mechanics of where power sits in our families, friend groups, communities, schools, workplaces, institutions… and yeah, inside ourselves.
I think people run from this word because it’s been flattened into something small and ugly—especially in the U.S., where “politics” mostly means electoral circus sideshows.
But just like the mystic knows everything is spiritual, the activist knows everything is political.
And what’s an activist, anyway?
Someone who activates—who shakes up collective consciousness by naming uncomfortable truths about the world we live in, who pushes us to make new choices so we don’t keep replaying the past.
hmmmm…sound familiar…?!?!
The Bigger Picture
Yet if we don’t see the bigger picture of little-*p* politics (as opposed to the big P Electoral Politics) whether it’s “office politics” or “geopolitics”—we miss the very leverage points where real change happens. And worse, we might skip over the spaces where change has to happen: in our families, friend groups, communities, schools, workplaces, institutions… in ourselves.
If we ignore the political realities whispering (or shouting) at us, do we also miss the chance to bridge heaven-on-earth and the dreams we hold for this material world we’re trying to reimagine?
Here’s what I’m not saying you have to do…
You don’t have to dive into every political debate or hang with people who grate on your nerves.
You don’t have to suddenly take up arms in every argument for human rights.
You don’t have to side with being a liberal or a conservative and join the polarized masses.
You don’t have to change anything about your core values.
In fact, keep TRUE to your values because a while back, I made some IG graphics about the tension of holding two conflicting identities.
What struck me? My spiritual friends and my political friends were asking the exact same questions—just using different in-group lingo.
These questions (below) show core values that the differences in linguistics usually hide from us.
What we’re all really getting at:
What does it mean to be free? (And can we ever truly be liberated?)
Who are you… no, really really?
How do we honor Mother Earth?
Where does our alienation come from, and how do we ease the suffering it creates?
What is power—and how do we wield it well?
What does healthy, empowered, affirming relationships and community look like?
The system’s clearly broken… so how do we heal it?
How do we raise collective consciousness?
How should we respond to the urgency of the times?
How have we been programmed to comply… and how do we unplug from the matrix?
Maybe these resonate?
Here’s my point: Politics isn’t just some dirty word to avoid.
It’s the undercurrent of everything, the unspoken rules of who and what matters.
And if we keep pretending it’s separate from “the spiritual path,” we’re basically handing over our power while convincing ourselves we are somehow better for it.
When we dismiss politics as “low-vibe”, we’re not transcending it—we’re just refusing to see our own hands in it.
Instead of being active participants who shape the world, we see ourselves as somehow outside of and apart from the defining forces, thus relinquishing our power to co-create.
Power that isn’t owned always flows upward to those at the top, AKA The Elite. These are the matrix controllers and darker forces that keep us stuck in a system of harm through hierarchy, exploitation, survival, and competition.
I don’t need to explain spiritual bypassing because you already know how using enlightenment as an escape hatch instead of a real-izing (to-make-real), grounding force, is just ego at the end of the day.
If we’re ever gonna build New Earth, we’ve gotta stop acting like “politics” is out there but that its right here, in the choices we can no longer ignore if we want a better world.
Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk :D
Christina
P.S. if you want to read more about topics like these, read this blog post next and catch me over on TT where I speak on similar matters: @ChristinaSoulServices