That The Soul Is Sovereign!

In this timely return to my spiritual rantings, I explain anew what my ism, “anarcho-spiritualism,” actually means. Why use it? Some say it is cumbersome and off-putting.

I chose the term when I began this blog in 2017, constructing it after the term “anarcho-syndicalism,” which is an economic form experimented with in the 1930s that I heard Chomsky mention somewhere. I looked up the prefix anarcho-, and noticed that the original Greek meaning signifies only a social structure that is “without rulers,” that would be an accurate and literal reading of what the anarcho prefix stands for. As “anarcho-spiritualism” was conceived as a belief system rather than an economic form, in a practical sense anarcho-spiritual would indicate little more than a spiritual practice which operated without rulers, that is, without priests, bishops, a pope.

The laws of the land are the laws of the land, and a system without rulers needs laws more than any other, and each individual striving toward stability. My anarcho concerns itself with the spiritual world – where, I would propose, the only ruler is God.