This blog gives updates and in particular meeting times for the Spiritual Leftie meetups in Berlin. Currently we meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 8PM in TrIQ, Glogauer str 19. This is likely to change in the following months as everything is pretty new.
The group can be explained as follows:
Leftie: politically leftist; specifically referring to "Berlin leftie",
a blend of political and lifestyle stances often including polyamory,
(pro)queer, (pro)feminist, antidiscrimination (anti transphobia, anti
racism), veganism/freeganism, etc.
Spiritual: relating to
certain forms of self development and ways of understanding the
universe; meditation, synchronicity, intention-manifestation, psychic
abilities/intuition, reincarnation, etc.
Just as many people
feel pressured into a queer closet in the spiritual scene, many people
feel pressured into a spiritual closet in the leftie scene. Despite a
culture that promotes respect towards others, the leftie scene can be
rather hostile to people who speak about their spiritual beliefs. On the
other hand the spiritual scene often completely ignores leftie
concepts, so we get tantra that ignores the existence of queer
relationships and trans bodies, and "positive thinking" that ignores the
fact that structural
oppression might be a cause of someone's misfortune.
The Spiritual Leftie group proposes meetups/events where you don't have
to be in any sort of closet, and can discuss both leftie and spritual
topics and how they intersect and interact with each other. You don't
have to leave any part of yourself behind in order to participate.
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