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Can someone help me understand Lavenderism from a historical context? I keep trying to research it and it appears to be a single-person project that is attempting to build a whole new metaphysics and spirituality from whole cloth.
@SmokingDeer@lemmygrad.ml Tagging in case you’re interested in sharing.
Thanks for letting me know.
That’s exactly what it is. I am teaching people how to gain supernatural powers, defending spiritual philosophies from anti-proletarian ideas, and venerating comrades as heroes such as Ho Chi Min or Mao Zedong. If you are wondering what kind of stuff Lavenderism is based on, you could say it is a mix of Ancestor Worship, New Age Spirituality, and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
I am very surprised to see my religious group mentioned in this community tbh. I try to keep all the spirituality stuff in my own community because if I say to the average secular communist person I have occult powers or I opened my third eye they are not going to want to hear about it. I know it works though because people tell me I have otherworldly energies and they think I am familiar despite me never having met them before. You can feel free to ask me about Lavenderism or these things but I am not sure the people of Genzedong want me to talk about Lavenderism in this community or they might think I am silly.
Just want to say that although I’m skeptical as MLs usually should be, I appreciate your good faith non-prosetylizing approach and enjoy many of the stories you share.
I think philosophy and spirituality are personal interests of study for many of us, even if they don’t apparently directly influence our scientific socialist worldviews.