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Indigenous Spirituality.
There are so many people trying to be somebody, not
realizing they are, or not happy with, who they chose to
be when they selected the parents to provide them with a
body and a time and place to born into. In their
ignorance they seek popularity and love posing as
someone else, one that gets respect. Native American
people have great respect through the spiritually seeking
world, and like anything that becomes popular
imitations soon start to flood the market. Unfortunately
the imitations obscure the original. With spirituality
God has been obscured by the image of Jesus. In this case
it was the Romans who created this falsity on order to
control the masses. Many were, and still are, victims of
this deceit, and feeling disillusioned seek alternative
religious solace. Native American spirituality can
provide this but as it belongs to another culture does not
snugly fit the psyche of those of another culture. In my