Perhaps. My kind of belief has its critics, since the insistence on the importance of native gods has racial implications -- collective unconscious, we're not all the same underneath the skin, all that. I guess critics say this kind of belief is essentially atheism since it elevates the race to the realm of divine, reducing the continuation of the immortal soul to ancestry and progeny. But I think it's just a realistic way of looking at things. For me it doesn't seem any less spiritually important. Maybe there's a crossover between this worldview and human biodiversity topics.
there's a crossover between this worldview and human biodiversity topics.
I would certainly think so. I once heard a religion described as an expression of a people. The values, personality and underlying psychology are wrapped up in how a culture conceives of a divinity, spirits, or whatever else. This understanding came from someone with a secular perspective, but it can also line up with what you're saying. It's also a much better conception of spirit race stuff, then I have heard before.
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