New Age happens when one controls their mind with their heart so much that they try to make their mind work like their heart does.
New Age cults happen when one gives their mind's power over to their heart, and then also gives that power over to another.
when we tell stories about magic but coat those stories with a layer of "btw magic is impossible" we are saying that having power and helping people is impossible
It wasn’t about the cards, not half as much as it was about that person already having access to the latent knowledge somehow. The cards just gave them a way to reel that knowledge in from the unconscious, or the aether.
Similar with astrology, as another example. You can learn all the significations and symbols and signs and everything else and... See more
a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.