In this deeply raw and urgent conversation, we confront the shadow side of the New Age spiritual movement—where love and light rhetoric is often used to dismiss social justice, activism, and human rights advocacy. What happens when spirituality becomes a shield for privilege and inaction? When standing up for injustice is labeled as low vibrational or divisive?

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Joining me in this roundtable discussion are six powerful voices from different backgrounds, each sharing their lived experiences of being gaslit, shamed, or silenced for speaking up—particularly in the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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We unpack:

🔹 Thespiritual bypassing that excuses silence in the face of oppression.

🔹 How thefalse light program is used to uphold systems of control.

🔹 The devastating impact ofbeing abandoned by spiritual communities for advocating human rights.

🔹 Thehypocrisy of Western spiritual spaces, their colonial roots, and their complicity in maintaining oppression.

🔹 What truespiritual activism looks like and how we can reclaim our power.

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We also explore therole of spiritual leaders and influencers—how they have failed in this moment of reckoning and what they should have done differently. Instead of uniting communities in collective healing, meditation, and global action, many have turned away, choosing neutrality over humanity.

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🌍Speakers:

🔹Lais (Host) – Intuitive healer, space-clearing expert, and advocate for spiritual integrity. You can find her on IG here:https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author website here:https://myhealingsanctuary.net who has long navigated the discomfort of never truly feeling at home in mainstream spiritual circles and the heartbreak of losing friends over her advocacy for Palestine.

🔹Dena Musfer – Palestinian transformation coach, artist, and founder of Levantinian who shares the devastating silencing and erasure she faced in the coaching industry when she spoke up for Palestine.

🔹Hind Ben Slimene Torjmen – Human Design reader, Gene Keys practitioner, and human rights advocate from Tunisia, now in Denmark, who reflects on the disconnect between public support for Palestine and government complicity, and how the global silence feels like an even deeper betrayal.

🔹Samantha Thornhill – Poet, performance artist, and journaling guide exploring spiritual truth who unpacks the spiritual bypassing that keeps communities asleep, and why she left the U.S. in protest of its funding of genocide.

🔹Janine Hesse– German skincare coach who who speaks to the pain of German complicity, the media propaganda she has witnessed, and how she broke through the societal conditioning that discourages questioning authority.

🔹Simran Reyah Sondi – Former banker turned medical intuitive and energy healer, exposing the dark underbelly of the wellness industry and the whitewashing of western spirituality

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🌟Closing Prayer & Reflection

We end this powerful episode with a moving prayer.

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💬Join the Conversation:

This episode is a call for deep reflection. What are your experiences with spirituality and social justice? Have you witnessed or experienced the silencing of activism in spiritual spaces? Share your thoughts and tag us online. (links below)

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📌Resources & Links:

🔗 FindDena Musfer and her work on IG athttps://www.instagram.com/levantinian

🔗 Connect withSamantha Thornhill for Oracle readings & journaling guidance: Www.samanthaspeaks.com, The Black Unicorn Journal of Passionshttps://a.co/d/efBO4C8, find her on IG:https://www.instagram.com/ladygriot/

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🔗 Connect withSimran Reyah Sondi on her website:simransondhi.com and her IG: 

https://www.instagram.com/sswlifestyle

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🔗 Connect withJanine Hesse on her IG:https://www.instagram.com/skincare.rebel.coach

🔗Subscribe toThe Alchemy of Light and Shadow Podcast, leave us a review and join my newsletter to keep updated: http://bit.ly/3C67Cxd

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