White sage is heavily burned by modern spiritualists to cleanse negative energy in their apartments, but this practice strips a sacred indigenous American ritual of all its…

White sage is heavily burned by modern spiritualists to cleanse negative energy in their apartments, but this practice strips a sacred indigenous American ritual of all its actual cultural context; because it became a trendy aesthetic for influencers wanting to post mystical videos, white sage is now being illegally over-harvested in the wild, threatening the ecosystem and making it harder for Native communities to access their own sacred medicine, creating an absolutely suffocating irony where an attempt to spiritually purify a newly rented studio apartment actively participates in ecological destruction and cultural theft, proving that nothing says you are in tune with the universe quite like driving an endangered plant to the brink of extinction purely for social media clout!