When is spirituality a mask that keeps us separate, and when does it bring us together?

An ongoing inquiry...

When I first entered my spiritual path, it was from a place of devotion and prayer, in middle school and then high school, going on mission trips, and to youth groups, going to my family’s intuitive healer and psychic on the Rainbow Crest Farm and singing ecstatically in church. I didn’t know there was an option to use spirituality as a mask to hide beh…