In the Age of Zoom Do Tribal Spiritualities Have a Future?

William Bloom
6 min readSep 12, 2023

When meditation, shamanic or pagan groups meet online where is their actual meeting? In what dimension is their gathering?

I pose this enquiry because it is relevant to the future and survival of regional and indigenous spiritualities.

Culturally we obviously need to safeguard regional and tribal spiritual traditions. They have value, beauty and uniqueness. Their disappearance is a poignant tragedy. People are also understandably upset by cultural appropriation — a form of absorption and watering down —…

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