Who is oppressing Ecstatic Contemplatives?
Thesis Statement: This essay is to bring to the reader’s attention to the plight of a people who have been more persecuted, more brutally abused, persecuted the longest, and persecuted by the largest number of cultures than any known religious or ethnic minority. The oral traditions and written histories of almost every culture and religion on earth reveals this to be true. These people are the ecstatic and charismatic contemplatives. They have been accused of being witches and sorcerers and thus persecuted by almost every culture on earth. Europe routinely burned witches at the stake until 1700. Spain was still burning witches at the stake into the 20th century. The last known witch burning was here in the USA on the Navajo reservation in the 1960s. What does it mean for the Continuation of a witch-hunt? For the last 2,000 years of European culture there is evidence that communities of people were persecuted for one reason or another. The witches were one of those people. This essay w
