Seeking Truth? Here: Have A Little Bit Of Mine

My, my, my.

One of the reasons I love following NewAge is to study betrayal. Like the Mafia, once you're involved in NewAge, it's really hard to get out. And one way or another, sooner or later, you know somebody's going to get whacked.

"The psychic business is built on lies. There is no supernatural power. You can't see the future. We're in the golden age of the con. There are people coming out of the woodwork that would love to separate you from your money,...that's the bottom line.

First you've got the belief system, which is a fraud, and thus a betrayal of followers. It is they who must go around, sounding like idiots, because somebody flattered them with some metaphysical jargon that sounded right but, upon any close inspection, is really just vague nonsense that could apply to anyone or, pretty much, any situation.

"They like to imagine I'm in some far off convent but really I'm ironing at home."

Then you've got the evangelicals. But not evangelicals in the Christian sense - where they (for the most part) actually "believe" what they're spreading - but the uniformly cynical, calculating, corrupt, cold, and capricious leaders of the NewAge Movement. They don't "believe" in NewAge - they're con men - to them, the world is here for the fleecing, and, if you're dumb enough to let it happen, then you only have yourself to blame. Again: you betrayed yourself.

But they betrayed you, too.

The difference is they know it.

"I'd try to be compassionate and sound as new age as you can."

Next come the followers. The believers. The saps.

They take the bogus belief system the evangelicals give them and then proceed to wreck havoc with it. Think John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. There they are, talking about "truth" and "compassion", while literally destroying whatever meaning those words hold, just as they were destroying whatever reputations they had previously. Even Rielle's NewAge girlfriend, Pigeon O'Brian, said she didn't think the integrity-ladened woman she knew would betray another woman, with cancer, over a man. Well, think again, Pigeon. Using NewAge, Reille Hunter will betray anyone, and everything she ever said she was about.

What am I saying? She already has!

"Common sense is the same as intuition. In our society we've lost touch with that."

Which brings me to the final victims in this cha-cha-chain of fools: those who find themselves merely in the personal vicinity of a NewAger. Oh, they're going to be betrayed, there's no doubt about it - it's impossible not to happen - the only questions are When? Where? and How?

Think of the baby in the Thomas Sam murder case. He was too young to understand, or hold, a belief system. He wasn't a believer. He died because his parents were saps, who believed in various quack evangelicals, and the homeopathic nonsense they were peddling, nothing more. Another example is the husband who took his wife to hear a friend of Oprah, only to end up divorced. And, of course, those folks who attended the sweat lodge of another of Oprah's friends, James Arthur Ray, only to find themselves dead - and their families crushed.

Gee, thanks, Oprah. You're the moral leader of the nation.

But it doesn't stop there: we can't finish without mentioning the flip-side of the equation - the followers who attempt to get out, and what happens to them.

First, there's probably going to be years of psychological therapy needed to wipe the chuckle-headed ideas from their brain, which is a betrayal of the belief system that told them they were special (or possessed magic powers) all those years.

Then the evangelicals speak ill of them, claiming they're "Suppressive Personalities" or liars or whatever. Now the former believer must fight to re-establish their integrity after possibly decades of saying the opposite was true of what they're claiming now.

Then the other followers come after them. They are abandoned, spoken ill of, attacked as crazy and, in many cases, their lives sabotaged by those same "loving" and "compassionate" people they couldn't live without previously.

And then, once again, there are the poor friends and families that must deal with all the believer has been/is still putting them through. They were totally ill-equipped to deal with the commotion of the believer's supposed revelation, the destruction the belief system wrecked on them (interpersonal and otherwise) or the fall-out once the follower starts to come to their senses.

It's just too big.

Now, multiply all this by the number of believers out there (Millions? Billions?) and then you can start to appreciate the scope of the problem.

How is anything supposed to go anywhere, but down, when we've got this type of mayhem now built into Western culture?

I mean, these people and groups are now part of every aspect of our lives - entertainment, politics, medicine, and science - every one of them working to undermine what we know, with what they want us to believe, and daring us to do something about it.

If you think about it seriously, and use it as context, I think it explains almost everything that's been currently happening in our lives.

And that's the truth.