What are spirituality communities?

Communities for people exploring spirituality, metaphysics, witchcraft, and esoteric traditions. Discord hosts active communities with open dialogue and educational content, while dedicated forums with hundreds of thousands of members cover everything from astral projection to Zen practice.

Where do most spirituality communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (30% of 30 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

77% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical spirituality community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 348K members and the median is 10K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (67%). Others that show up often include live chat, paid community, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Spirituality topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Spirituality Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 30 spirituality communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: spirituality communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 30
Platforms: 6
Avg members: 348K
Median members: 10K

Where Spirituality Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
9(30%)
Skool
7(23%)
Discord
6(20%)
Reddit
4(13%)
LinkedIn
2(7%)
Facebook
2(7%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
15(50%)
Private membership
7(23%)
Chat communities
6(20%)
Other platforms
2(7%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (50%), but private membership is also well represented (23%).

Independent Platforms leads, but Skool and Discord also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
7(23%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
6(20%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
7(23%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
4(13%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(3%)

5 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (348K vs 10K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Spirituality Differs From Other Categories

Spirituality is smaller than typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Spirituality	Hive Index average
Free to join	77%	84%
Median members	10K	25K
Average members	348K	673K
Paid or apply-to-join	23%	16%
Live chat	40%	41%
Discord share	20%	17%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
67%
Live Chat
40%
Paid Community
23%
Newsletter
20%
Online/Offline Events
20%
Courses
17%

Niche Features

Job Board
3%
Pairing
3%

Forum appears on 67% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 115

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Independent Platforms	9	30%	21	18%
Skool	7	23%	7	6%
Discord	6	20%	70	61%
Reddit	4	13%	6	5%
LinkedIn	2	7%	8	7%
Facebook	2	7%	3	3%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord gets 61% of clicks but only 20% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
70(61%)
Forum / feed-based
30(26%)
Other platforms
8(7%)
Private membership
7(6%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
76(66%)
Forum
48(42%)
Courses
39(34%)
Online/Offline Events
17(15%)
Paid Community
2(2%)
Pairing
2(2%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Huge
54(47%)
Massive
25(22%)
Large
24(21%)
Medium
12(10%)

Top-clicked listings

Witching Hour
36(31%)
Spiritual Forums
21(18%)
My Reality
17(15%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Trends

Founded year

Not enough founding-year data to chart yet.

Community Quality & Ratings

Only 1 community has ratings so far, so read this as a small sample.

1.0 average rating across 1 community.

Rated examples

Witching Hour
Discord · 1.0 stars · 30K members

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Spirituality. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

Updated periodically

FAQ

: Communities for people exploring spirituality, metaphysics, witchcraft, and esoteric traditions. Discord hosts active communities with open dialogue and educational content, while dedicated forums with hundreds of thousands of members cover everything from astral projection to Zen practice.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (30% of 30 listings).
: 77% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 348K members and the median is 10K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (67%). Others that show up often include live chat, paid community, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Spirituality topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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