The LQF Strikes Obama Again: The Chevy Cruze

Oprah brought us Obama. Oprah and Obama are NewAgers. Obama took over General Motors. The new Chevy falls apart - on the freeway.

It looks like the Law of Quantum Failure has certainly struck again.

Call TMR "Hogan's Raiders Of The Lost Heroes"

We swear - we're going to stop this at some point - but that "dead end" of a "New Age witch hunt" Ann Althouse's (second) husband, Meade, says we're on never seems to actually come to a cul-de-sak.

Like today, Ann and Meade's friend, Glenn Reynolds (above) has a long (for Instapundit) and fascinating discussion of the resemblances between Communists and Nazis. Reynolds ends his first section of the discussion with these words:

Communists are as bad as Nazis, and their defenders and apologists are as bad as Nazis’ defenders, but far more common. When you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest. They should not enjoy the consequences of their behavior.

Got that? Communists are as bad as Nazis. Nazis and their defenders are bad, and "when you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest."

Well, we couldn't agree more! That's why we find it weird that we're considered crazy for attacking NewAge when it was Glenn Reynolds' other friend, Jonah Goldberg (above) who wrote:

Many of the progressive and holistic ideas that lie at the heart of today’s lifestyle Left, the environmental Left, and the New Age movement share numerous unquestioned philosophical, emotional, and practical similarities with the intellectual and cultural currents that fed into and sustained Nazism.

Seems to us, this means we should all be treating NewAgers as Reynolds says and "when you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest", right?

Yet we can barely compel Reynolds or Althouse (or Meade) to take the subject seriously.

Another of Glenn Reynold's friends, Bill Whittle (above) did a talk that got this response from a commenter:

[Bill Whittle’s] attacking a whole group association think-set. I had been an uber New Agey leftist for many years and his caricatured characterization is right on. He could have also put in adjectival terms such as 'homeopathic', 'Buddhistic', 'yoga posturing', Indigenous peoples loving’, or 'meditating'. Any of those fits the group although none on their own would be considered insulting — except for perhaps, homeopathic — if you don’t like invisible, non-existent medicines. There is definitely a personality grouping of the New Agey hip, cool, enlightened, pacifistic Earth warrior. I think that ignoring the hard core paganistic tendencies of the New Agey left is to be in denial.

We hope Meade remembers this the next time Ann does a post about the gobs of money the two of them spend at Whole Foods, where they had to have passed the various sections devoted to Buddhist statues, homeopathic medicines, yoga mats, the sale of items by Indigenous peoples, fraudulent environmentalist items, and the like.

Moving along through Instapundit's Communist/Nazi conversation, in the next section Reynolds reminds us:

The [communists] “good intentions” argument has long been an excuse for mass murder.

"Good intentions" and "mass murder", you say?

Well, on that note, we'd like to point you to a post we did - about Geoff Gilpin (above) author of the book The Maharishi Effect - which we called "Good Intentions Can't Help The Occultists". Don't forget - according to Glenn Reynolds' own friends, Goldberg and Whittle - the NewAgers are Nazis and, according to Reynolds, "when you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest".

So who are the Nazis Gilpin's referring to? He calls them "the "left wing occult" which, by some remarkable coincidence, is exactly what we call them too! Small world, huh?

Communists, Nazis, The Left, and NewAge, all wrapped up together like that. Remarkable!

So what's our proof there's a connection between all these influences Reynolds has labeled "evil"? How about a New York Times Magazine interview with Louise Hay (above with Oprah Winfrey) - AKA "The Queen of New Age" - where she agrees that "with a situation like the Holocaust, the victims deserved what they got"?

Or how about that slip-up film director David Lynch (above) made in Germany?

Lynch ("whose new-age beliefs are sometimes as quirky as his movies") was trying to establish "a network of so-called 'invincible universities' to teach the philosophy of transcendental meditation", when his partner in the effort to build a school on "Devil's Mountain", Emanuel Schiffgens, took the podium and this happened:

"What do you mean by this concept of invincibility," asked an onlooker from the audience, made up mainly of film students with a smattering of meditation devotees. "An invincible Germany is a Germany that's invincible," replied a Delphic Schiffgens, who was dressed in a long white robe and gold crown. Adolf Hitler wanted that too!," shouted out one man. "Yes," countered Schiffgens. "But unfortunately he didn't succeed."

Nice, huh?

By the way, the connection between NewAge and Naziism has also been pointed out by Bronte Baxter of the Transcendental Meditation Free blog, and Chris Locke (author of the internet marketing bible "The Cluetrain Manifesto") has repeatedly been banging that drum (and hitting all the same major themes and players we do) to almost no recognition.

What's important for Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and Meade, to understand here is we are (all) trapped in a NewAge culture - it's the Baby Boomer's true legacy to America - and, being Baby Boomers themselves, we can see how easily it can be for them to ignore or dismiss it rather than fight:

They (all) grew up in it.

What Geoff Gilpin called the Maharishi's "create your own reality" philosophy is the same one mentioned by "Brightsided" author Barbara Ehrenreich (above) as she's been explaining the reasons our economy crashed.

It's the same one that provided the fuel for the Bernie Madoff scandal. And it's the same one that caused my ex-wife, Karine Ann Brunck (a Boomer) to kill three people, for Penelope Dingle's husband to kill her, for Thomas Sam to kill his daughter, for Oprah Winfrey to help kill Kim Tinkham (as well as getting girls raped at her NewAge "school" in Africa) for Homeopath Frank Shallenberger to kill two people, and for NewAgers the world over to kill countless others - especially in Africa.

NewAge is Naziism, and this is Glenn Reynolds' "mass murder" - happening right under everyone's nose because they claim to have "good intentions" - and we think it's a shame so many truly smart people can find nothing better to do than attack the messenger for utilizing the only style available that's been proven to work.

Honestly, we're sorry - we don't necessarily mean to offend - but, as Glenn Reynolds himself also says:

Communists are as bad as Nazis, and their defenders and apologists are as bad as Nazis’ defenders, but far more common. When you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest. They should not enjoy the consequences of their behavior.

NewAge Quantum "Bleeping" Does It Again!

"The race for the Democratic nomination—"race" is hardly the right word, is it?—now feels like a quantum physics problem."

-- John Dickerson, throwing out the 'Q' word - as in LQF - for Slate.com

The Holistic World Of Hillary & Houston

"Clinton's problem may be that Obama embodies a female, while Clinton has become mired in emulating the male.”

-- Robin Abcarian, in an article on Jean Houston, in the Los Angeles Times

In other words: we may get our first female president no matter what happens! (I'd love to hear Obama's take on that shit,...)

Before Hillary Clinton gets kicked to the curb, let's pin down some of this NewAge advisor business. The Clinton's have many - including the cult leader, Ken "suck my dick" Wilber - but I'm going to focus on Houston. According to this article - and my own super-fast research on Google and Wikipedia:

-- Jean Houston is the founder and chief teacher of the so-called Mystery School.

No mystery there. All future presidents need that. It's a foreign policy requirement.

-- Jean Houston is a leader in the "Human Potential Movement" which "researchers in psychology, medicine, and science dismiss as being grounded in pseudoscience and psycho-babble, and whose efficacy can be explained entirely by placebo."

And leaping. Always a lot of leaping.

-- Jean Houston lives in a "double geodesic dome".

Because that house you live in is just so, you know, passe. All those square corners block the spiritual energy,...or something.

-- Jean Houston, as a child, spent time talking to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whose work is described by some as "pure mysticism".

And, as we all know, talking to French mystics is a damn good start for any American child. "It takes a village,..."

-- Jean Houston's forbears include the Confederates (and unrepentant slave owners) Sam Houston, and Robert E. Lee, while her father was a comedy writer.

I get the joke: The Clintons are closet racists. Both they, and Houston, want slaves. Houston lives in Ashland, Oregon, which is 90% white.

It's like when the great drunken Buddhist master, Chögyam "crazy wisdom" Trungpa (above) crashed his sports car into a joke shop before choosing his "dharma heir" who, knowingly, gave his followers AIDS.

"Cosmic" humor. Don't strain yourself.

-- Jean Houston lives in a "town of theater lovers and spiritual seekers."

Which sounds like a gay community ("47.5% are non-families"). Not only that but women outnumber the men, and Ashland's residents think the water is "curative". (Sadly, I couldn't find the homeopathy sales figures for Ashland.)

Also, older residents are leaving this spiritual paradise and - no surprise here - the schools are closing. Kids don't need an education in a town filled with "spiritual seekers", right?

-- Jean Houston is "a prolific author of books, her PBS Special 'A Passion for the Possible' has been widely viewed."

And, of course, this is more of that NewAge programming supported by the money of "the Queen of the NewAge" Louise Hay.

-- Jean Houston was perhaps formerly best known for her involvement with Margaret Mead, who "was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life," and was "usually wearing a distinctive cape and carrying a tall, forked walking stick."

Because a broom was too obvious.

-- Jean Houston, was "something of a secret emotional life raft" to Hillary Clinton.

Secret = Hidden = Occult = Jean Houston = Hillary Clinton. Who, during this campaign, tried to sell us on the idea she was a life-long Methodist. You bought that shit, didn't you?

-- Jean Houston thinks Hillary Clinton is a "priestess".

See last reference.

-- Jean Houston says she "was not Clinton's spiritualist," though she's "giving seminars on,...'spirituality'".

Circular thinking and/or lying. According to Wikipedia, Houston is "a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of spirituality and ritual processes."

-- Jean Houston "had helped,...Hillary Clinton in imaginary conversations with,...Eleanor Roosevelt."

Talking to the dead (occult) about "imaginary" things - like becoming president.

-- Jean Houston's "imaginary conversations" with Hillary Clinton "had been taped".

Just to clear things up: let's hear that tape!

--Jean Houston "can see how" Clinton would lie about Bosnia because Clinton's "been under sniper fire for 20 years".

And - since there's no "right" and "wrong" in occult thinking - lying isn't a problem to Jean Houston. As the piece on Louise Hay said, NewAgers have "an ambivalence about what most of us would call truth."

--Jean Houston was asked by the White House "to stop talking."

But Jean Houston, the good citizen, is still talking.

Jean Houston found "there was not much support" from Hillary Clinton after the media found out she was helping her.

No surprise there: according to the Law of Quantum Failure, Houston's therapy worked exactly as planned.

Oh, what a wonderful world,...

Yet Another Unintentionally Accurate NewAge Quote Of The Day: Jeff Dufore & Patrick Gavin

"A woman caught up in an illegal world of sex and money, and for whom the pressure ultimately became too much to bare."

-- Jeff Dufore & Patrick Gavin, reporting on how the Law of Quantum Failure struck down the "psychic" D.C. Madam, in the Washington Examiner

Wait, Wait - Let Me Answer That!

"How do they do it? How do the Democrats manage to squander repeatedly and with such ease the chance of a lifetime? What inverse alchemy have they created that turns the gold bullion of electoral opportunity into the base metal of political oblivion?"

-- Gerard Baker, calling forth the Law of Quantum Failure, for Pajamas Media.

The Clinton's, The NewAge Occult, And Law Of Quantum Failure: Success In Black And White

HERE'S THE LAW:

"The 'left wing occult' plays into the hands of the enemy.

We believe in openness and tolerance. As a group, we’re remarkably free of bigotry and the need to dominate others. Heck, we could make a big difference... or we could if it weren’t for the Law of Quantum Failure. Once the psychic powers and golden age fantasies come in, all the wisdom and good intentions in the world can’t help."

-- From Geoff Gilpin's (downloadable) Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Miracles, Quantum Failure. He's also the author of The Maharishi Effect.

HERE'S THE EVIDENCE:

" A new book has caused a stir with its detailed descriptions of White House visits to Hillary Rodham Clinton by a New Age psychologist,...Dr. Jean Houston (above). Two White House meetings with Dr. Houston are described in a new book about the 1996 Presidential campaign by Bob Woodward,...Newsweek magazine, which is also promoting the book, "The Choice" (Simon & Schuster), characterized the visits as seances,..."

-- Francis X. Clines, in the New York Times

"No one had preached this [NewAge] message more effectively, or profitably, than [Marianne] Williamson, who took the initiative to suggest that Hillary and Bill consider getting together with her and,...two lesser-known women on the seminar and lecture circuit whom she thought Hillary would take comfort in talking to in her current state: Mary Catherine Bateson and Jean Houston, who often worked in tandem…

Jean Houston, with her husband, Dr. Robert E. L. Masters (above) was co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research, in Pomona, New York, best known for research into psychedelic drugs, hypnosis, sexual behavior, and 'humanistic psychology.'"

-- From Carl Bernstein’s book, A Woman In Charge, pp 412-7

"Jean Houston became a close advisor of Hillary’s, and on numerous occasions she stayed at the Whine House for days at a time. She worked with Hillary through therapy sessions designed to help the First Lady reach her full human potential. Part of the therapy, often called “channeling,” included guiding Hillary in conversations with the dead—Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi to be precise.

Houston understood firsthand the value of this exercise. In a 1989 conference she told a crowd of 6,000 she had contacted the Hindu goddess Sarasvati while meditating on the Ganges River in India."

-- From Bay Buchanan’s book, Extreme Makeover, pg. 32

HERE'S ONE OF THE (PROJECTED) FANTASIES:

"President Clinton has an impeccable record on race, civil rights and issues that matter to the African-American community, the strongest of any president in our time.”

-- James E. Clyburn (above) the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives (and an undeclared superdelegate from South Carolina who is the Democratic whip in the House) who the New York Times calls "one of the country’s most influential African-American leaders".

AND HERE'S THE FACTUAL RESULT:

"As Clinton performed blackness, real black people got poorer. The poorest African-Americans experienced an absolute decline in income, and they also became poorer relative to the poorest whites. The richest African-Americans saw an increase in income, but even the highest-earning blacks still considerably lagged their white counterparts. Furthermore, the '90s witnessed the continued growth of the significant gap between black and white median wealth."

-- Melissa Harris-Lacewell (above) associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University.

See how well the Law Of Quantum Failure works? (Better than The Secret's Law Of Attraction,that's for sure. Unless, of course, if you're black,...no - wait,...)