Put This With Andrew Klavan Saying Conservatism Is Spiritual And You've Got One Hopeless U.S. Endeavor

I've said this survey should be done by doctors when people ask for alternative medicines:

"When someone tells you about UFOs, don’t ask them about UFOs. Instead, ask them about how they feel about psychics. Ask them what their opinion is on ghosts. Ask them if they believe in Bigfoot. You’ll find a pattern.”

A pattern? That's putting lightly. I say you'll find they're nuts, shop at Whole Foods, and they vote:

"Penn and Teller tried to disprove,...yoga. And they tried to make it out as being nothing more than stretching — and that’s ridiculous. As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who’s been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it’s stretching is if you haven’t done it, or that you haven’t done it rigorously for a long period of time. You can achieve a state of calmness and of euphoria when you do yoga — and it’s not unlike a drug. I mean, it’s not like taking an incredibly potent psychedelic. But unquestioningly — without a doubt — yoga can do that to you. And this is based on my personal experience and the personal experience of many people who have done it.”

Good thing no yogi's told the American school system or anybody else, huh? Even though it's "the personal experience of many people who have done it”? They could've mentioned it once or twice in all this time, right? I can hear it now:

"No, Your Honor, yoga is not a religion but 'an incredibly potent psychedelic' we are administering to children in their formative years under the guise of exercise." 

And what kind of "pattern" do we see amongst them? Let's check the homeopathy aisle:

"It is like living in a different culture.  Have you read some of these historical crime novels where they try to get you into how people thought then?...Completely different assumptions and completely different ‘knowledge’.   Homeopaths live in the same space as you but are in a different world, and they ‘know’.  To come out of that world is a complete revision of assumptions, thought systems and thinking style.  It is very hard to do.  I think I’ve been trying to say that for a long time.  The larger the numbers have grown the easier it is for people to live in that world with others like them.”

And what are "others like them” dumping on the rest of us?

"I wrote that I think that by month 3 or 4 I was buying into stuff I would not ordinarily buy into.  I never bought into soul or vital force but I’d lost any ability to challenge it within 6 months.  I did challenge homeopathic prophylaxis once, and did not get a satisfactory answer.  In homeopathy it would be ‘judgemental’ to say anyone is doing it wrong or say an idea is useless, which is why anyone can do what they like.  It would be judgemental to, for instance, campaign that prophylaxis has no backing in Hahnemann, or that the petrochemical miasm is just a figment of someone’s imagination.  Remember [tutor] pointed it out – you can not criticise or challenge how people operate or what they do.  If they say it works for them – anything goes.  So you have this bunch of people, all working differently, solely around whatever ideas they get in their head.  

As we say – ‘whatever works for you’.  

And no one ever discusses their results.  If they say it works, who are you to question. If they say it works for them – anything goes. My critical abilities were silenced within the first year – not by others – but because it would be considered judgemental in that society.”

Now, isn't it wonderful how NewAgers will rail about "Big Pharma's" failures when "no one ever discusses their results" in the NewAge? And, if you think about it, how many groups are pumping this "don't judge" bullshit on us? I just got a dose of it, online, last night. I hear the perp is very happy with herself and that result. But there's no cults, no cultish thinking, and no cult behavior anywhere, that any thinking person can see - except for when blacks are making fools of themselves, of course. Then we get piercing observations that, unfortunately, applies to all NewAgers defending their nonsense after an unexpected tragedy:

"Let’s take a terrible event and make it a festival for all our ideological and racial ax-grinding and a showcase for our inability or unwillingness to reason clearly. Let’s do it in perpetually high dudgeon while simultaneously patting ourselves on the back about our fearlessness and honesty.”

Like I said, regardless of color, they're all nuts - and they vote:

   

The bright spot is they're getting to 'em while they're young,...