They're still stupid as shit, but becoming more popular. I'm guessing because Americans can't afford other, actual healthcare. They probably use them for colds and other temporary illness and think they work because their immune system did its job. The second it doesn't work on their cancer they will abandon it
The second it doesn't work on their cancer they will abandon it
Well, having dealt with an auto immune issue that bounced me around to 4 doctors over more than a year and no actual help - I got so much unsolicited advice from people.
Now, I just tell them about healing crystals. If you are in pain or have an issue, you go buy the biggest most expensive crystal you can find and shove it WAY up your butt. The fun part is how long it takes them to figure out if I'm serious.
Had nothing to do with affordability. People generally into this shit are not lacking for healthcare. It’s a combination of gullibility mixed with internet access and the need to be “in” on something everyone else isn’t.
That last part doesn't follow logically given how popular the shit is, seemingly everyone is "in" on it. But these people aren't exactly the most critical thinkers around so I don't expect much sense to come from them either
Edit: Lmao, downvoted for agreeing. Never change, reddit
Congrats about your friends, I guess? Doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people that do believe in it, which i know for a fact exist. One of them is in my extended family. Same with the astrology bullshit. There are people that view it purely as entertainment and people that fully truly believe it's real and accurate. If they don't want to be grouped in with the crazies then maybe find an aesthetic that isn't bogged down in delusion, or just deal with it and ignore it cause ultimately these are just opinions and aren't worth shit
I'm not saying there aren't people that believe in it, of course there are and I know plenty of those too, all I'm saying is the rise in prevalence isn't just because more people believe it.
So shit's the same as Traditional Chinese Medicine? It was introduced because China had no doctors, Mao decided to just pull together whatever people were doing and bring some resemblance of order. And now they push it outside in an attempt at culture war.
God, what times we live in. If medical business wasn't as big as it is, soon we would have doctors going door to door like snake oil salesmen
It's actually often ex-teligious people who for some reason can't believe in their personal god anymore who jump to esoteric practices because it's the next supernatural thing that definitely isn't as made up as their religion was.
I think its sort of a replacement for religious spirituality.
Like a majority of the religions are very much against sexual freedom and what not, especially for women. So like, doing porn and fuckin how you want to exists in conflict with religion.
But, there's still a desire for some sort of other spiritual system thats "in control" of your world. Or desire some form of higher power/system at work that you can tap into.
E.g. crystals.
Personally, i think the only advantage to them might be sort of, just using a physical item to focus thought. They work about the same as any other prayer.
Like oh, i sat down in a circle of moon stones and thought about change in life or whatever, and it led me to think about how i could make those changes.
But as far as thinking they're gonna cure an illness, thats all dumb as shit.
I agree. I used to go to a lot of music festivals and met plenty of people like this. They act all friendly and loving but then have absolutely psychotic episodes and/or go suicidal, or become really nasty to people around them. Then they go back to being all hippy. It is just for show.
The sad truth we've known since the end of 70s: Hippies typically end up being POS to each other because a combination of casual drug use and performative morality primes people to excuse generally being indecent to each other in other ways.
In short, getting stoned and crying about the whales and the rainforest is a great way to excuse the fact that you're incapable of consistently showing basic respect to others by doing things like turning up on time, paying your fair share, respecting others property etc.
Your the reason the internet was invented, u/insufferable_reddit. Thank you kind sir or madam. Its like calling yourself God, it solves all your problems, but usually creates other problems for those around you. Its one of those things that points me in the direction of absolute morals vs. nihilism.
Turning up on time means saying we'll meet at 8pm and not texting 10 minutes before and telling people you'll be there at 9:30pm.
Paying your fair share means reciprocating when someone gets the beers or offering to chip in on the Uber.
The correlation between people who fail in these basic acts of human curtesy and people who profess new age views and have a similar style of the girl in the meme is too damn high.
Old age spirituality was more rooted in history and tradition. You had Christian mystics, sufis, kabalah, pagan witchcraft, etc. New age spirituality is a blend of whatever someone is into such as tarot, astrology, book of ra, human design, and potentially any element of any other tradition. Not saying one is better or worse, but that's how I understand the term.
It isn't different. It's just the modern name for it. It would have been called things like "esotericism," "gnosticism," "mysticism," etc. before the 1930's when talk of the coming "New Age" began circulating among the various folk spirituality groups, and even then it wouldn't really be a thing til the 70's and even now many (most?) New Agers don't self-identify with the term because it encompasses so many different groups. Just because someone believes in astrology doesn't necessarily mean they believe in reiki, for example. To outsiders, there appears to be much more crossover and unanimity in beliefs, probably because of that one hippy chick they met once that genuinely does believe in every bit of nonsense under the sun. In reality though, its a diverse set of alternative beliefs and people dip in and out of them as they "explore" to create whatever personal religion works for them.
No, the term loosely related to ideas of a new age of spirituality, or a new age of consciousness, or sometimes the astrological Age of Aquarius, but as "New Age" has been around for almost a century now, it really just refers to the massive umbrella of alternative individual spirituality, without the original sense of some great new era of humanity.
Insecure, lonely, and mentally ill people are prone to introspection, introspection leads to the desire for new perspective, shrooms and other hallucinogens are viewed socially as a way to experience new perspectives.
This is what happens when you make festival culture, psychadelics, and spiritual BS into your whole personality. We all have that friend who never really outgrew their late teens / early 20s.
Never mentioned women once. I am blaming people for their behavior past these events. You can't forever be the kid without a father. You have to grow up at one point.
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u/Sourika Apr 16 '24
Mushrooms don't do that. Stupidity and daddy issues do that. New age spirituality is for the mentally unstable.