There's an interesting story about three Pagans claiming they had a ‘reasonable excuse’ to enter a restricted area at Stonehenge, based on their religious beliefs. The story is only interesting to me because one of them, a druid, said she needs access to the stones to “charge her crystals to work in healing”.
Of course, ‘Healing’ crystals are having a pandemic moment. But science says they’re just pretty stones". So, what's so "interesting"? The fact authorities say it's just "believing in the healing benefits of crystals" that can be harmful to your health - but they don't point out that "harm" is because new facts often don’t matter once a belief system has been established. And, once that happens, beliefs can, and will - literally - twist the person who holds them into someone who will wreck other's lives, forever.
Almost 20 years after my forced-divorce, no one's been able to offer an answer to that problem - as they all cry around me, today, telling me about the harms and dangers of misinformation in the NewAge.
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