So two days ago, as I was doing some theta healing on myself, I released the entity of the ghost of white culture.
Review: the ghost of white culture is the energetic imprint of European ancestral trauma (think genocide of womxn, famine, multiple waves of colonization within Europe, plague, religious domination, sexual repression, etc.) A ghost that due to the effects of European colonization, is salient for the world at large.
You can thank this ghost for why most Westernized people are varied degrees of disassociated & stuck in our head, no access to feeling in the rest of our bodies.
Of course, I’ve known for a while intellectually about the ghost of white culture. Gwen Benaway’s article “Holy Wild” and her connection between Wiindigo and white culture was very influential for this—how the Wiindigo is a hungry ghost that devours everything in order to feel whole. Other people I learned from in this regard were educators at Standing Rock, Susan Raffo, Tada Hozumi, and others.
But to actually experience the entity of the ghost was something else. Even though I’m an animist gal who believes in spirits, part of me conceptualized the white ghost as metaphorical. I had a moment of “oh shit…the ghost is like, a literal actual ghost.” 
While I was exorcising the literal actual entity of white ancestral trauma, I got a vision of my past life as a healer in old European times, where I was killed for being a “witch”.
My first gripe with the ghost of whiteness happened while I * was * a white person, when I was killed as a result of the ghost.
That lifetime left it’s mark on my soul that I’ve done a lot of work since the summer in healing.
I got the download that part of why, in this lifetime, I incarnated as a BIPOC in close proximity to whiteness was in order to better be able to transmute this ghost: I would understand it, but not be so immersed in it that I couldn’t tell the forest for the trees. & Transmuting the ghost has major implications for healing the world at large.
It reminded me of a white lady whose house I stayed at en route to Wet’suwet’en camp. She offered her home for supporters of the camp. She talked about her vision of her past life as a Coast Salish Indigenous person, and being shot by a white colonizer. She remembered her dying thought was “to help these colonizers understand”. And in the current lifetime her scholarly work centered around Indigenous spirituality. There’s a connection here between how our ancestral lineages can be an ally to other lineages.
I can help transmute the global beast of whiteness through my positionality as a Desi person, and the scholar is using her social capital as a white person to be an ally in decolonization (which is a specific aspect of exorcising the ghost.)
And I’m just one Desi in a long tradition of Desis who are tackling the ghost of whiteness. The yoga tradition adopted the disassociated orphan culture of whiteness in order to bring back some somatic awareness to it. Same with East Asian healing modalities and somatic practices.
(Hat tip to Tada for making this connection between lineages adopting cultural orphans. They’ve talked about how cultural appropriation is in part, not recognizing one’s position as an adoptee. This is a major problem in the somatics world. I also see it as the nature of the beast to devour everything it comes across.)
So, I have yet to see the full effects of what releasing the ghost will have in my life, but I already feel a lot more spaciousness.
And there’s been an interesting side-effect in transmuting a breakup: after I got rid of the ghost, the imprint of my ex became way more faint in my psych; they felt more and more like a memory. It’s like the beast was keeping the memory of him burning in order to feed itself.
And to think, the majority of Westernized people have this entity on them.
Imagine what would be the effect if we all got rid of it? 
Credit to Jairus Bilo for the photo!
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