According to the LA Times, actress Ellen Page experienced her religious conversion into “Elliot” during an ascetic sojourn at a cabin in Nova Scotia.
Reporter Amy Kaufman says that Page used a combination of self-flagellating violence, fasting, and forced solitude to achieve gnosis and hear the voice of God.
The breakthrough occurred while sitting on a porch chair ruminating on the manifold humiliations of a life in the Hollywood sleaze machine.
“You don’t have to feel this way,” Page says a voice told her. The “discomfort [she] felt in [her] body” was explained in an instant. The pain of a lifetime had all been metaphysical discomfort with her flesh. She was born in the wrong body! Of course.
It was definitely not the lifelong homophobia Ellen Page experienced from her own family. Nope, no way this trans stuff is just ‘pray away the gay’ with genderspirits. No way. Unpossible:
When [she] started to explore the idea that [she] might be gay, [her] family was not accepting. [Her] mother, a …
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