A Love Letter to the Misunderstood Mystics

Lately, I’ve been watching something that sits heavy in my heart, that a wave of people who once walked a spiritual path, who spoke of energy, intuition, and divine connection, now turning around and calling it all “evil” in their new path of finding Jesus.

I’ve seen creators, coaches, and even friends who once shared messages of empowerment, healing, and magic suddenly denounce it all in the name of God, and while everyone is free to follow what feels true, it’s the need to demonize the path they once walked that stirs something deep in me. To me, that’s not faith, that’s fear wearing holy robes.

This is not a judgment from me about anyone who changes their devotion or faith.  I respect deeply whatever form your connection to the Divine takes. This is more of a plea for if you find yourself discovering God, Jesus, or another path of devotion, please don’t tear down what once carried you there. Don’t bag the very version of yourself that was searching, growing, and learning to trust in something greater. Don't you see what is going on in the world at the moment with the difference of opinion of faith and religion.

Real faith, real connection  doesn’t and shouldn’t need to shame another path to feel validation of their own. It doesn’t need to turn love into judgment or call magic “the devil’s work". It doesn’t need to create enemies out of people who simply experience the Divine differently.

I believe in God. I believe in Goddess. I believe in Spirit that breathes through earth and sky, through fire and water, through every beating heart. I’ve always believed. Not because I was told to, but because I feel it. I live it. I see it in the land, the animals, the ocean, and the quiet whisper of the trees.

The term “new age” gets thrown around like it’s some trendy invention, but what many of us practice is ancient, the old ways, the remembering of what our ancestors already knew.  That we are part of creation, not separate from it. That the sacred doesn’t live only in temples or churches, but in the soil, in our bodies, in our breath.

When people leave spirituality and claim they’ve been “saved,” I often see that they were never truly grounded in their sovereignty to begin with. They were seeking safety, belonging, and meaning  and that’s completely human. But when that longing meets fear, the pendulum can swing to the other extreme to full submission, rejection of self, and outsourcing all authority to something outside of them.

For me, sovereignty means I can love Jesus and honour the elements. I can pray and pull cards. I can hold deep reverence for God without needing to hand over my own power to be deemed worthy.

I’ve spent some time reflecting on what might be happening with this sudden exodus from spirituality back into rigid faith systems. What I keep seeing is this pattern, again this is my world view opinion.

The Search Phase ~ They enter spirituality wanting healing, community, or purpose. They may experience real expansion and glimpses of magic with energy work, intuition, synchronicities, ceremony, connection to the earth. What they haven’t yet built is inner grounding or sovereignty around those experiences.

The Fear or Disillusionment Phase ~ Without deep integration, going to one event, teaching, course, retreat after the other after the other with no pause in between. Leaving no time for integration.  These experiences can feel overwhelming or destabilizing. Add to that the cultural narrative (especially in Christian based societies) that anything mystical = “of the devil,” and suddenly fear takes hold. They go back to what feels safe, often religion and then to make that choice feel “right,” they must label the old path “wrong” or “evil.”

The Control Dynamic ~ As I’ve said before, it’s really about sovereignty. True spiritual maturity is when you can walk in your own light with the Divine, not beneath it. Many faith traditions teach hierarchy. That you must submit to God rather than realize your inherent divinity and co-creative power.  So they trade one authority system (gurus, influencers, manifestation rules) for another (the church, scripture, dogma).

What’s could be going on underneath~ Many of these people were genuinely seeking love, belonging, and truth. At the cusp of it we ALL just want to feel that belonging of something. But because they never fully healed their fear of separation or learned to trust their inner guidance, they externalize authority.  Forever searching outside of them selves. Always looking to hand over their own power. First to “the universe,” then to “God.” They’re still searching for safety outside themselves.

I’m not saying it’s not about “new age” or “God.” It’s about whether someone is coming from sovereignty and embodiment or fear and dependency.

You can love Jesus, honour the Goddess, work with the elements, and walk a path of magic (because the very being of life is magic),  all while standing firmly in your own divine authority. The Divine ~ God, Spirit, The All is not threatened by tarot cards, symbols (that we are forever changing and adding our own narrative too) crystals, or ceremony. Those are simply languages of connection.

Years ago, someone I deeply loved and admired, a  friend of such beautiful deep faith  tried to “save” me with an intervention. I Have spoke on this before but it isn't till now that I have realised how hurt I was from this. I didn’t realise it was an intervention until I got home. I thought at that moment to be talking deeply about something other than the weather was amazing and beautiful and it actually excited me to be able to share a bit more of myself without judgement with this beautiful soul. I think the intervention was because I had begun to share my “spiritual” life publicly on social media, she told me I was being led by darkness. The thing is I was always like this, it wasn't a new path, I hadn't joined a cult all of a sudden, I followed this path, devoted myself to this path for decades. I just didn't want to have to hide this part of myself any longer. That conversation broke me when I think back to it.

I loved her so fiercely. I admired her devotion greatly. But her version of God that day, didn’t feel like love. It felt conditional  like love that only existed if I fit into those beliefs. That experience still echoes in my heart. It reminded me that real faith never seeks to control another’s expression of the divine. Real love doesn’t shame or “rescue” someone from their own path. I still love and respect her dearly. I still cheer her from afar. I will always have love for her in my heart.

I know that my connection to the sacred doesn’t need validation from anyone. So, to the witches, healers, mystics, light weavers, energy workers, intuitives, seers, priestesses, shamans, herbalists, alchemists, starseeds, earth keepers, medicine women and men, dreamers, wild ones, and way-showers please remember this, You are not evil for loving and honouring the earth in your way.  You are not lost for listening to your intuition.  You are not deceived for speaking to Spirit in your own language.

You are a child of the same source, and your way of remembering it is holy. Let others find their truth in the way they must but never dim your own flame to make them comfortable.

The Divine doesn’t need defending. It needs embodying.

Walk your path in love, wildness, and sovereignty always.

Because that is the most sacred of all. 🌹