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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.

chakras in the west is funny because you have so many disbelievers who have no experience with it and so many professed believers who also have no investment, knowledge, or experience with it

right, so i did not talk about this at all, lemme lay out some stories that seem plausible to me. in more detail, the “minimal but respectful take” here seems to me psychological: that tarot and astrology are two different scaffolds on which to hang intuitive psych reads