Confession won't save you #decolonization

[00:00:00]Christianity allows you to wipe away a lifetime of mistakes with a single prayer, but the Maya knew the cosmos kept a strict receipt. Traditional confession relies on verbal absolution.

[00:00:13]You speak your wrongs, a priest forgives you, and the slate is instantly wiped clean in the eyes of sky daddy God. In Mayan mysticism, wrongdoings create to a kind of literal spiritual debt. The universe operates on energetic equilibrium. You cannot pray away a debt. You have to rebalance it through physical reciprocity, ritual offerings, or kesh, some kind of sacred exchange.

[00:00:41]You don't ask for mercy. You restore the cosmic ledger. The universe does not forgive, it harmonizes. Follow for the next part in this series and more decolonizing spirituality.