Rev. Shari Woodbury
@shari-woodbury.bsky.social
Nature lover, mama bear, Unitarian Universalist minister
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Journey to the Center
Revisiting the Site of Spiritual Trauma
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November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Why Do Westerners Turn to the East? Parsing the Appeal
Eastern spirituality has been hip and cool in the U.S. since the counter-cultural era of the 1960s. (It had earlier phases of appeal too, particularly to educated and elite populations — from...
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March 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Burying My Songbird: A Turning Point Revisited
I recently rediscovered something I wrote a few years after leaving a group that affected me deeply as a young adult — the meditation group I now understand to be a high control group. With the new...
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March 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Layers of Illusion
How A Cult Is Like An Onion
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March 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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