"When you imitate someone's tradition and you don't know what you are doing, there's a danger of doing something very wrong." This is a quote from an article that I read this morning that left me with so many mixed feelings of disappointment, invasion, anger, sadness, and a lot of other emotions thrown in for good measure.

People that know me know that I have been adamant about identity for as long as I've been aware enough to be an activist. Different peoples have different traditions for a reason. Different cultures have different ways of doing things for a reason. And when we trample all over those traditions -- especially where spirituality or mysticism is concerned -- someone is going to get hurt.

"They say" that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, let's just wake up people, or we're going to flatter ourselves into... into...  I don't know what.

There are some things with which we simply shouldn't mess unless we are damned sure we know what we are doing and damned sure we have a right to mess with them.

How big a sledge hammer do we need, people?