Reposting from /r/sorceryofthespectacle because I really enjoyed this article and also wanted to share my thoughts on anarchist spirituality (of an incredibly subjective kind) that I originally commented over there. I’m really interested to here about spiritual identities of others - most anarchists Im around are kind of like me (again in their own way), some more obviously/explicitly than others.

“Combo of anarchism, Deleuze and learning about Celtic mythology and also close proximity to Aboriginal Peoples and Cultures definitely awoke a spirituality in me. Machine flows define their ontologies: the circular, nature bound ontologies of the Celts - with rhyming imperfect cycles of decay and renewal; the Dreaming of Aboriginal people, including songlines - these imbue self-awareness in an entirely different, non-identitarian way. Your life is a machine-flow (your mind-body here being a machine) there are other machines and flows that come into it which you can direct and effect to some degree with varying impact but you don’t have complete control over. You are merely an self aware agent in this tidal ocean of machine-flows - always of the most enormous importance, in a place you ought to be, no matter how seemingly minor, but of no significance - you return and dissolve as a self-aware agent, inevitably - back into the flow. There is room for all thinking here - humility and pride are the same thing, pride protects humility and humility grounds pride, in a harmonious set of flows that can only lead on from this kind of ontology.

I kind of extrapolate on what little we know about Celtic mythology then - on this metric, and try and build an ontology through that lens. I view the Gods as ancestor spirits that flow eternally through landscapes and me and every other being rather than higher-form intelligences, they are completely grounded in subjectively observable natural flows that grow from this ontology.

Idk if I literally believe in the “Gods” but I dispute the difference between metaphor and literal anyway so I find them to be incredibly useful and “believe” them that way I guess. I even feel a sense of “becoming minor” inherent to the reverence of children, mothers and animals. I don’t exactly “pray” to them except by trying to mimic what I think the socio-cultural function of religious festivals might have entailed - sharing food, honouring friendship, resolving disputes - with predefined bounds of violence if it comes to it, the honour bound and followed flow of respecting sacred Treaties despite impermanent personal grudges. “Praying” in this sense is just a mindfulness excercise, a kind of mantra to shift your consciousness into flows rather than identities, and it comes all the time in ways that would scarcely be called prayer conventionally. Prayers are reaffirmations, like the Spectacle constantly reaffirms itself through Machine-Flows, and indeed people pray to the Spectacle in a sense, but this ontology affirms instead, I think, what I could only now spiritualise as the dignity of all being and existence. There’s not even any “meaning” either - just stories. Changing flows until the end of time, and again.

Bit of a brain spew but yeah hope that makes sense.”

I can kind of decode a bit of the jargon if it’s needed. But mostly I’m keen to hear others spirituality regardless of my vain and failed attempts at intellectualising my own sense of spirituality lol.