Okay, I can't think of how to proceed without my origin story. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian cult, got out of that in a large rebellion, and then evolved into embracing Marxism and atheism. - ThreadSky

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holistic-radical.bsky.social • 31 days ago

Okay, I can't think of how to proceed without my origin story.
I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian cult, got out of that in a large rebellion, and then evolved into embracing Marxism and atheism.

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holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

Before too long, life led me to realize I had transferred the attitude of dogmatism and fundamentalism to these new liberating viewpoints. I'd become a fundamentalist Marxist atheist, holding my views so tightly that I invalidated everything that seemed to conflict with them.

holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

Seeing and focusing on the importance of how some classes oppress other classes, I completely rejected any value of not only all spirituality and religion, but also psychology and speculative fiction.

holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

I then constructed the perspective that I've held to ever since, that dogmatism and fundamentalism are mistakes human beings can make from any point of view.
My antidote to dogmatism is eclecticism, finding the value and limitations in multiple points of view that seem to conflict.

holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

And being eclectic is a way to approach being holistic, seeing that all parts are interrelated with each other and the Whole.

holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

Centering myself on the value of living in a physical body in a material world, and using multiple approaches to deal with the complexity of that, the first most important thing I have to do is deal with and heal the trauma that started in childhood before the cult.

holistic-radical.bsky.social•31 days ago

In that journey towards being cognitively whole within my sacred physical body, one of several crucial approaches these days is practicing Qigong, moving meditation to enhance the flow of chi, the subtle energy at the basis of many Asian traditions.

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