New Age Spirituality

A dive into the history of several prominent 20th century cults and some of the conspiracy theories they spawned. With Dr. Erin Prophet and Joe Szimhart.

Homeopathy is a vicious fraud. In all but the “weakest” potencies, the medications contain not one atom or molecule of the original substance–but are only sugar pills.

Tolle weakly challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” What is existence without thought? That sounds like a very good description of inanimate matter.

You can repress parts of your personality, but you can never eliminate them. What Tolle has done is to repress what Carl Jung would have called the shadow self.

It’s highly predictable that those who cling to their notions about the spirit world are quick to condemn what they view as the inferior pleasures of the flesh.

Sometimes things which make us feel better aren’t necessarily true or even good for us.

Alper doesn’t just rely on assertions, but traces a long path through the origins of innate behaviors, starting with the phototactic reflexes of planarians

I asked her how she thought it was possible for a distant planet to affect a person’s life on Earth.  She said.  “You know, it’s just energy waves.”

When someone prioritizes “meaning,” in life, over meeting human needs, they’re valorizing pointless suffering.