oh hell yes this exactly

[liminalia]

klgaffney sums up my feelings on the New Age:

"New Age stuff puts me off. I keep getting hit with this particular brand of patchouli-scented sentiment: the fake-y-ness, the random, greedy, grabby-handed mixing and matching of "ancient! indigenous! knowledge!" (read: various customs and bits of religious and magical traditions yoinked completely out of

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[sammason]

So very well said! I'm reading this at 5am, insomniac and blasphemous as only an ex-Xian can be. Thanks to you I now understand that I need to realign my cheesy cherokee chakras.

[klgaffney]

"Cheesy Cherokee Chakras" sounds like a potentially tasty boxed macaroni product.

There is no blasphemy like the blasphemy from someone that bounces from YHWH's Own Fandom. From a fellow flouncer: respect.

[nevarra]

I wish I were better at Photoshop so that I could create a box of Cheesy Cherokee Chakras. :)

[klgaffney]

I love the idea but I am way too hungover to execute it. =D

[nevarra]

YES! YES! YES! YES!

[prettydark]

I recall some time ago hearing someone say they pronounce 'new age' like you would 'sewage'. fitting.

[amazon_syren]

For me, it's more the idea that "you create your own reality" (which is basically just victim-blaming bullshit and self-congratulatory bullshit rolled up into huge jelly-roll of UGH) stuff combined with the "self-help advise" authors who don't do anything but restate their thesis over and over and over again, but never actually give their readers any useful advise or suggestions or coaching in terms of how to get from A to B.

It's pretty skeezy. :-P