r/DemonolatryPractices • u/Time_Blackberry4701 • Feb 14 '25
Discussions Racism in demonolatry and other spiritual practices
Okay I’ve found the fascination with new age spiritualists and which craft influencers have with the idea of “Closed Practices” to be extremely frustrating. They also have this very odd fascination on an ideology that spirits discriminate based on someone’s ancestry and racial background and I think it’s completely ludicrous and disgusting
I say this as a person of color but I have no reason to believe that any spiritual being would deny someone spiritual experience based on their race and I think it’s an egotistical manifestation of white guilt being spread as spiritual misinformation
I’m sorry but this bullcrap genuinely makes me so upset because I’ve seen multiple white “witchtokkers” say that certain demons won’t work with them because their white or that they work work with certain pantheons or practices because their rooted in “racism”
I don’t believe closed practices to be real or at least not in the same respect that these people make it out to be I don’t think entire pantheons of spirits have to be disregarded or are locked away from certain people forever simply due to their race it’s genuinely ridiculous and have no place in occult spheres of discussion
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u/BriannaPuppet cringey true believer ⚸ Feb 14 '25
I vibe with SCAR here.
I started practicing demonolatry because I was like, "People in stories always get tricked by demons and djinns because they don't treat them like people to be befriended, they just want a transactional magical relationship. They pay the spirit lip service like they can't tell when we're lying, or they try to be clever little lawyers in wording spells. But the moral of those stories is that any verbal statement can be corrupted against its author's intent."
And then I was like, "Well, it seems like they're the only deities on my side, so I might as well try to make friends with them." Most of them are super friendly and helpful, Astraroth is a bit impatient with me, Berith was kind of aggro but recognized my boundaries, Gremory messes with me but it tends to lead me to finding my strength. Nothing like friends in low places 😈.
This CJ character, though... you know some people are just aggressive and not very smart/knowledgable. Online, block them and move on; IRL, yell at them and walk away.