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Inherited Silence: the Wisdom They Tried to Erase - Part 2

Inherited Silence: The Wisdom They Tried to Erase
We inherited silence, not because we chose it, but because our ancestors had to.

Inherited Silence: The Wisdom They Tried to Erase

What do we know about ancient spiritual teachings that we have forgotten or bastardised?

The truth is, a great deal — but it's been buried, distorted, or deliberately erased. Many ancient teachings weren’t lost — they were taken. Rewritten. Misused. Or made so alien we no longer recognized their beauty.

So how and why did this happen?

1. Empire & Control

Kill the story, control the people.

Empires and colonisers systematically silenced indigenous spiritual systems to replace them with ones aligned with conquest. They:

  • Banned rituals and languages
  • Burned sacred texts and tore down altars
  • Framed local deities and practices as evil or primitive

2. Patriarchy

Silence the feminine, and you silence the wild.

Many original spiritual systems were goddess-based, cyclical, and earth-honouring. As patriarchal religion took root, the divine feminine was erased, vilified, or made submissive.

3. Fear of Mystery

Mystery scares the mind that needs control.

Ancient spiritualities thrived on paradox and poetry — but dogmatic religion and later, scientific rationalism, wanted answers, formulas, and control.

4. The Rise of Rationalism

Only what can be measured is real.

In modernity, the unseen was declared superstition. The mystical became irrational. Soul, intuition, and energy were discarded as unprovable.

5. Cultural Trauma & Survival

Generations of people whose traditions were colonized often kept quiet to survive. Stories were hidden. Songs went unsung. Trauma shaped what we forgot — and what we didn’t dare remember.

6. Systemic Amnesia

We built civilizations on the ruins of temples, then forgot there were temples underneath.

We’re taught history through wars and rulers — not through midwives, mystics, or medicine women. Spiritual frameworks were paved over by empire and education.

7. Translation & Language Loss

When spirit is translated by empire, it loses its wings.

Words that once held spiritual resonance became legalistic or flat when translated by colonisers. Soulful meaning was lost in the name of control.

So What Now?

Many of us are waking up with a deep sense of longing, even grief, for something we cannot name. That ache is ancestral. It’s spiritual memory. It’s truth buried deep inside your body and bones.

To remember is an act of rebellion and return.

You are not broken for feeling the pull. You are remembering. And to remember is to re-member — to bring the lost parts of yourself and the world back into wholeness.

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