I already know this post might ruffle some feathers — and honestly, I don’t care.
It’s time.
It’s past time.
We need to talk about how colonizers hijacked our relationship with Spirit, with nature, and with ourselves — and how it’s on us now to break free.
Across every landmass on this Earth, indigenous peoples lived in direct communion with The Divine through the natural world.
Their spirituality was the earth. The sky. The waters. The animals. The winds.
There were no steeples, no pulpits, no denominations.
There was only life — and life was sacred.
But when the colonizers came, they didn’t just steal land.
They stole minds.
They forced organized religion onto indigenous peoples like a yoke around the neck, weaponizing belief systems as tools of control.
And in doing so, they blurred — and continue to blur — the true story of human creation, existence, migration, and evolution.
“As within, so without.” – The Kyballion
This Hermetic principle reminds us that spiritual sovereignty begins internally — not with outside approval.
Let’s get into it.
How Colonizers Forced Organized Religion
Indigenous peoples didn’t need a middleman to reach The Great Spirit.
Their connection was already woven into the soil, the sun, the seasons.
Colonizers couldn’t relate to that kind of power. It didn’t serve the ideals of conquests and manifest destiny.
So they waged spiritual war.
They criminalized indigenous ceremonies, burned sacred texts, demonized ancestral practices, and declared only their religion as “civilized.”
Whole populations were baptized by sword-point.
Generations were taught that everything ancient, everything natural, everything earth-centered — was “evil,” “pagan,” “backward,” or “savage.”
This wasn’t about saving souls.
It was about owning them.
And it worked — to a degree.
Today, millions of descendants of the indigenous peoples still wear the spiritual chains of their colonizers, often without even realizing it.
Self-Reflection: Who taught you what ‘God’ or ‘Spirit’ is? Have you ever questioned if that definition truly resonates with you?
The Blurring of History, Creation, and Existence
The written history we’re fed is full of holes.
Where are the true stories of migrations that happened long before colonizers mapped the world?
Where is the acknowledgment that spiritual knowledge and sacred science existed long before organized religion claimed authority?
Colonizers rewrote timelines to erase the rich spiritual legacies of the indigenous peoples.
They painted themselves as the bearers of truth — and everyone else as lost until “saved.”
This blurred history not only erases facts — it erases identity.
When you lose connection to your ancestral path, to your sacred way of being, you lose a piece of your soul.
And that was the point.
Self-Reflection: What histories or spiritual truths were you never taught? What do you intuitively feel was left out?
Nature-Based Spirituality: The True Indigenous Path
Before forced conversions, before temples made of stone, the first churches were the rivers.
The first altars were mountain peaks.
The first prayers were whispered to the moon.
Nature-based spirituality wasn’t just about worshiping the earth — it was about being the earth.
It was a sacred dance of reciprocity:
You take only what you need.
You honor what gives you life.
You move with the rhythms of the seasons, not against them.
This way of living wasn’t primitive.
It was masterful.
It cultivated balance, harmony, longevity, wisdom.
Everything modern society claims to seek, the indigenous peoples already had — and it was ripped away.
Self-Reflection: When was the last time you felt closest to something greater than yourself — and were you inside four walls, or outside under the sky?
How Colonizers Demonized the Natural Path
It wasn’t enough for colonizers to impose their religions — they had to make sure the old ways were seen as dangerous.
Sacred rituals were labeled “witchcraft.”
Wise healers were called “sorcerers.”
Ceremonies honoring the sun, the ancestors, the harvest were banned or mocked.
Fear was the tool.
Make people afraid of their own roots, and they’ll willingly uproot themselves.
To this day, anything outside the narrow box of organized religion is often seen as “wrong” or “dark” — even by those whose ancestors once lived by the light of the stars, not the rules of a book.
Self-Reflection: Is your spiritual practice something you chose — or something you were told to follow without question?
A Note on Respect:
I want to be clear: this isn’t about shaming anyone for following organized religion. I respect every individual’s right to choose their spiritual path. My only goal is to share why I personally choose a decolonized, nature-rooted, metaphysical approach. Just as I honor others’ inherent right to choose their beliefs, I expect the same respect in return. True spirituality, after all, is never about force — it’s about freedom.
With that in mind, here’s what my spiritual path looks like — one rooted in nature, metaphysics, and ancestral remembrance.
Reclaiming the Sacred: My Path and Rootwork
I am not against sacred texts. I view them all with a metaphysical lens.
In my own Rootwork practices (commonly known as Hoodoo), I do refer to The Bible — but never literally.
Literalism is one of the ways colonizers trapped the minds and souls of indigenous peoples, freezing divine wisdom into rigid dogma.
I use The Bible as a metaphysical map — decoding symbols, uncovering hidden meanings, reconnecting to universal laws that transcend colonized interpretations.
Hoodoo is a Black American spiritual tradition rooted in the survival, intuition, and indigenous ancestral wisdom. It is a practice of folk magic, natural medicine, protection, and ancestral communication — shaped by necessity, resilience, and spiritual connection to the land. Hoodoo blends earth-based rituals, divination, and biblical symbolism, but it is not a religion. It is a living tradition of reclamation and empowerment. This is what our ancestors created to survive.
This is how you reclaim tools without being bound by them.
This is how you heal the severed link between you and The Great Spirit.
Decolonizing Your Own Spirit
Decolonizing your spirituality isn’t about abandoning faith.
It’s about asking whose faith you’re following — and why.
It’s about remembering that Spirit cannot be owned, cannot be trademarked, cannot be colonized.
Spirit moves through trees, rivers, fire, breath, and bone.
It lives in your heartbeat.
It speaks through intuition.
It shows up in dreams, visions, and synchronicities long before a preacher translates it for you.
If your current spiritual path disconnects you from nature, silences your inner knowing, or makes you fear your own sacredness — it’s time to rethink who you’re actually serving.
Nature Was Always the First Temple
When you touch the earth barefoot, you pray.
When you breathe in the forest, you meditate.
When you offer gratitude to the rain, you worship.
The indigenous peoples understood:
- Nature is not a backdrop — it’s a teacher.
- Spirit is not an external authority — it’s a living force within and around you.
- Ritual is not about perfection — it’s about participation in the sacred cycles of life.
Returning to nature is not regressing.
It’s rising.
It’s remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
Opening Without Compromising: Practical Ways to Decolonize Your Connection
You don’t have to abandon your current beliefs to start thinking for yourself.
Decolonizing your spirit is less about rejection, and more about reconnection.
It’s about reclaiming your spiritual freedom — one intentional step at a time.
Here are a few simple ways to begin:
- Sit in nature without an agenda. Just be. Observe the wind. The leaves. The stillness. Let your spirit listen. This is prayer, too.
- Ask questions — even the uncomfortable ones. What parts of your current faith feel forced? What parts feel deeply true? Don’t rush to answer. Just reflect.
- Read sacred texts with a metaphysical lens. Instead of only literal interpretation, look for symbolism, archetypes, and patterns. What deeper truths might be hidden beneath the surface?
- Honor your ancestors. Honor does not mean worship. You don’t need to know all their names or set up an altar. Simply speak to them. Light a candle. Pour water. Thank them for surviving.
- Explore without fear. Learning about other traditions doesn’t weaken your own — it strengthens your spiritual literacy. You can hold curiosity and faith at the same time.
- Release spiritual guilt. You are not betraying anyone by exploring your truth. If your path is rooted in love, respect, and integrity — you are not lost. You are becoming.
This isn’t about swapping one doctrine for another.
It’s about reclaiming your direct access to Spirit — beyond fear, beyond shame, and beyond colonized control.
Final Thoughts: Reclaim, Remember, Rise
Decolonizing the ways we’ve been robbed of spiritual communion is about liberation — not rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
It’s about peeling off layers of imposed belief to find your own direct connection to The Great Spirit.
It’s about no longer shaming the sacred practices that honored water, sky, earth, fire, and spirit.
It’s about healing the soul wounds that colonization tried to make permanent.
It’s about standing in your wholeness — not because someone else sanctioned it, but because your very existence is already sacred.
The old ways were not lost.
They live in your bones.
They are calling you home.
Will you answer?
If this post stirred something within you — honor that. It means something sacred is awakening.
Whether you walk a path of organized faith, ancestral ways, or your own sacred blend, know this: your connection to Spirit is yours alone to claim.
Take a walk under the open sky. Talk to your ancestors. Sit at the feet of a tree and listen.
You don’t need permission to return to what’s already yours.
Reclaim your sacredness. Remember your roots. Rise into your true Spirit.
Self-Reflection: What would your spiritual life look like if you trusted your own connection to the Divine above all else?
Share your thoughts…respectfully of course.