https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/10/halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations Stay as awareness Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/10/halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations.html#comment-93 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:22:11 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/10/30/halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations/#comment-93 Thanks for the very thoughtful and thought-out comment. Yes, we can't be ready to feel a certain way on-demand/on the day of the cultural holiday. And gathering people together to discuss what the community wants a holiday to be is a wonderful idea.

]]> https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/10/halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations.html#comment-94 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:21:02 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/10/30/halloween-the-day-of-the-dead-and-other-afterlife-celebrations/#comment-94 Nice post. Thanks. I like how you see and appreciate the depths of meaning, complexity and fluidity of holidays for different peoples and cultures. One of my "problems" with the socialization of holidays is the expectation that one is necessarily in that space at that time… like, the expectation/pressure to be, say, thankful, on Thanksgiving Day. Sometimes I'm there and love the celebration, sometimes not and it's a chore to attempt to manufacture the feeling when it isn't natural. Sometimes pushing through that generates the feeling (like how smiling makes you feel better even when your sad), and sometimes not. So, while I like the idea of clarifying the meanings of a holiday, participating in traditions and rituals to express those meanings, and possibly even creating new meanings and rituals (over time culturally or instantly personally), I always see them as optional. Might be neat to invite community members to gather and share what the holiday means to them individually and discuss together what they might want it to represent collectively for the community at that level. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. Peace.

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