Hoodoo and heart healing🔮

The ring shout is a powerful and enigmatic spiritual dance with deep roots in African American culture, particularly within Hoodoo and conjure traditions. Originating during slavery, it served as a clandestine form of worship, resistance, and spiritual connection for enslaved Africans and their descendants. More than just a dance, it is a living testament to resilience, a sacred ritual that allows participants to connect with ancestral spirits, invoke divine power, and find liberation in movement and sound. 

At its core, the ring shout involves participants moving in a counter-clockwise circle, shuffling their feet without crossing them (a nod to West African prohibitions against crossing legs in sacred dances). The rhythmic movement is accompanied by hand-clapping, foot-stomping, and call-and-response singing. This collective energy creates a trance-like state, a spiritual vortex where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds thins. The "shouters" often move with an increasing intensity, their voices rising, their bodies swaying, until the spiritual energy culminates in what is often described as the "spirit catching" – an experience of profound spiritual possession or enlightenment. 

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This is a clear example of institutionalized racism, but I highly doubt that Navy Federal credit Union sent out some kind of memo instructing their staff to deny black applicants. So what’s happening? Well, what’s happening is that white people who are in charge of these applications have issues with Implicit, bias and racism and they are collectively denying black applicants.