#new age bullshit

[crazycatsiren]

Spiritual eugenicist dingbats be like "medications and therapy are all bad for you, so you must do shadow work instead", and bruh, who's going to tell them a psychologist came up with the whole concept of shadow work as a form of psychotherapy.

[creature-wizard]

There has been a great spiritual awakening globally. This is a hard earn Truth about spiritual war which must to come. It's important my fellow you hold unto what serve you best and remember to talk to your dead one's who have travel to the great beyond. Talking to them is not a Sin oh you christian. Truth about this is, the dead can't lie rather the give true answers to whatever questions asked and also help in providing solutions if properly conjure. This is Pure POWER and WISDOM.

My dead grandma says you're full of shit.

[grey-sorcery]

@dolphins-and-deer sent this to me. 😂😂

Hard facts.

[icarus-suraki]

Pinterest, how did my algorithm bring me this?

[eldritch-queern-magicat]

Honestly? The only thing that made me the ‘bad alter’ is that I wasn't willing to forgive the assholes who hurt us. Nanny tried to tame me when I would appear later, but she couldn't. It is true that I often triggered Galaco, because I was angry that he wanted only to forget. And then there was Ash, or as he became known recently, Sammy. But I knew him as Ash, and he definitely wasn't having my revenge shit.

I'm not totally familiar with the events in Ohio yet. My cage got rattled a few times, but never enough that I even could know what was happening. Mom's death made a crack, big enough that I could find my way out.

Ash, according to Lilu, fully split Jared off because he got similar to me in Ohio. He was just not aggressive enough to get himself sealed. I think I might have become a cautionary tale in terms of my behavior. I wasn't good at behaving myself.

And yet, Lilu has been extremely considerate given our internal history. I guess it's the growth he's been through. He is Ash, fused with Galaco, and others. Apparently Death Note really was instrumental in how they ended up developing in high school. I guess picking up Light made Ash realize this was going to keep happening whether he liked it or not.

And yeah, I really did make a mess out of things when I showed back up. I did utilize our less than stellar discernment skills to get back some control. I reignited our previous beliefs about the spiritual war supposedly going on because we had no other frame of reference for how real everything felt. When I escaped, everything in our mind was segmented. We were divided up by where we came from and the barriers were horrifyingly strong. It actually felt like trying to travel to another universe. I missed the chaos of us just being together. The chaos was the best part.

I'm definitely still angry. We all agree it's my right. But now we're thirty years old and trying to pull our shit together. Not really much sense in fighting, and Lilu was adamant from the start the other day that he just wants to fix things. Which I get, actually. It's just a waste of energy, which we could use to do so much else.

-Pandemonum 🪁😺

[gargoyle-chronicles]

EPIPHANY IV

Epiphanies, existential and perverse. There is the road less traveled And there is the road without sin.

There is the road paved, and the abbey of the aberrated. Somewhere at the crux of the malum and narcissus— Somewhere in the past I grew grossly misled.

Madness and genius, love and possession, Passion and betrayal, beauty and sin. The eye of the beholder in a world where all is held the same. Gaze to the Abyss, watch as it reels back, Dumbstruck by the husks that grew.

Stare into the eyes of the child of Midas and the Gorgon. We are fascists of self-righteous greed. Our intentions aren’t pure when the poison of the bud licks the seed.

Epiphanies, existential and perverse. Raising daisies in my chest and hemlock in my head. Misery and Wisdom were supposed to go hand and hand, But Wisdom deserved better, so Acedia caresses me.

Stopped at the dead of night at the intersection. The street signs are scarred and etched out, But here is the malum and here is the narcissus, So I suppose they’re all the same.

[emperornorton47]

[lmsr-lilitu-sephiroth]

I'm going to share something of a personal update related to a previous post I made about my mental health and spiritual/religious practices. Fair warning, it is a bit long, and maybe scattered. It's kind of a lot.

The honest truth is that I'm even questioning many of my personal interactions with deities, as I have introjects of some (and yeah, it's probably as awkward as you can imagine, if not more so). I know I was on a lot of bullshit in the past, before I really understood that I'm a dissociative system. It really all feels like I'm trying to put a puzzle together, but I don't even know what it's supposed to look like.

There are some things I'm actually really confident about, but that's not the focus of this post.

Admitting this mess isn't exactly easy for me. I had pretty rigid standards for myself and I fell short of them. I always fall back into expecting my best all the time, even after I've burnt out. And it extended into my spiritual life, where I had to believe I was right about stuff that was largely just in my own mind. I was terrified of what it would mean if I was wrong. I was trying to figure out who the fuck I'm supposed to be, and I was so horribly lost and confused.

The groundwork had actually already been laid, since foster care left me a million kinds of fucked up. I was looking for a way out of Christianity, and I did make it out, sort of. But along the way, I got sucked into the New Age spirituality. And even though I managed to avoid the far right pipeline, it was still way too close for comfort in retrospect. I still absorbed a lot of bullshit at that time.

It's really messy. I'm still working it out, and that's on top of everything else I'm still processing. I'm not really up for going into the specifics, but it's a bit of an extension of how I felt like an outsider and it wasn't in my supposed nature to be a good little Christian. Let's just say it turned into me needing to feel special, even if I was viewed as bad.

It didn't get far beyond emails with a specific person and some conversations with another person, but it terrifies me of what could have happened if I'd been more open about it. I had a night where a newer split looked at the many emails we sent back and forth. And his reaction, which was sheer disbelief at the absurdity, made me as a whole really wake up and start coming to terms with just how much bullshit I was really on.

And now I'm embarrassed. I feel wounded, and yet I only have myself to blame. I'm the person it started with.

To be totally honest, the main reason I'm even talking about this is because I can't stand keeping it bottled up. I talked to both people about it, and I think, at least somewhere deep down inside, we could all see that I was on a lot of bullshit in the past. And it's not as if I wasn't still going through some more, pretty serious shit at the time. There was a falling out with someone, and then dealing with legal matters regarding the abuse in high school.

This is also just me trying to be accountable. I can't say how much my delusions affected others, even if I never shared them with anyone else. But it definitely affected how I interacted with others and how I saw the world in general. I was still on a lot of bullshit when I made this account. Chances are fairly good that I've shown my ass at least once since then. I actually don't really remember it all that well. I just know that at some point, I was totally fine with being something of an edgelord.

I'm working on it. It's not easy. It's actually really, really hard. I'm so frustrated with myself, and even that's a bit of a problem. I'm still expecting too much out of myself. This isn't going to be resolved in even a matter of months. I'm two years into even knowing I have Dissociative Identity Disorder. It hasn't even been a single year since that part's reaction to those emails.

Honestly, the most likely reason for having introjects of deities is simply that They had traits and aspects that I wanted to emulate. Sometimes it also coincided with pop culture. It's an entire thing that I'm coming to terms with. But it did still contribute to personal delusions and some level of psychosis.

And as hard as it may be, I think it's important to talk about these things. Stuff like this seriously does happen to people. My story can't be entirely unique.

Religious fanaticism can and does create equally serious religious delusion. We need more awareness of this so we can help prevent it. I feel very lucky to be able to wiggle out of the delusions I've had for years. And I'm not wasting an opportunity to bring awareness to the issue, because it means so much to me.

More details about my multiple kinds of trauma and their various effects are scattered throughout my system side-blog. It's kind of a lot, probably to no one's surprise at this point. I've been through some serious shit. But it's there in case someone needs to know they're not completely alone. I know I'd have liked the same thing when I was much younger.

[esotericfaery]

[tottallyana]

since i dont work with them anymore, and can say it:

if you aren't a licensed professional and think you can share your teachings as a 'masterclass', i don't trust you.

no one should trust you.

you're just stealing people's money and time.

unless you are asked by masterclass company itself and are the writers of stranger things, you don't have a reputable talent or actual credentials.

you are delulu. get help.

[crazycatsiren]

"Failure is a choice" is just such a privileged way of looking at everything, like, where do I even start.

I hate the law of attraction/law of assumption people so much.

[creature-wizard]

For anybody who's missed it:

[clearspiritualityblog]

Is New Age Spirituality Holding You Back?

Have you noticed that many spiritual teachings encourage you to keep your vibration high, and become passive on the physical level? What if this is holding you back from true spiritual growth, and actually improving your life?

The linked TikTok presents this argument. Check out that, plus my other content, for how alternative spiritual techniques can get you to where you REALLY want to go!

[grey-sorcery]

I just came across your witchcraft blacklist and had a genuine question. Why avoid theosophy? I know next to nothing about it, but was curious why that was part of the blacklist. Also, New Age. I thought witchcraft classified as New Age? Or perhaps I'm mistaken?

The Theosophy Society is rooted in appropriation and imperialism. They had headquarters all over the globe, especially in India. The organization is mostly responsible for the spreading and consolidation of western occultism (hermetic alchemy and ceremonial magic) by taking many eastern practices out of their cultural context and combining them with western thought. A lot of their influence is still heavily prevalent today. They are also tied almost directly with New Thought, which is ableist, racist, and extremely classist. A lot of the well known Theosophical occult authors wrote under an array of pseudonyms, many of which were of ethnicities that said authors were not. The subject takes a lot to research, but I highly recommend it.

Witchcraft (and other mystical practices) predate the New Age movement by a substantial degree. As time ebbs forwards the line between them grows thinner. New Age thought and New Thought are simple and easy to entice. They both rely on flowery and aesthetic vernacular like good vibration, higher resonances, etc. New Age relies entirely off of visualization and the law of attraction, which are not only ableist and classist, but aren’t even magical practices. Because of this, it was very simple and almost natural for it to influence mystical practice. These practices are also fascist-pipelines and inevitably lead to antisemitism and historical erasure/white washing. The influence started through crystal workings and discussions of psychic abilities. Both of which can definitely be a part of witchcraft practices; however, not to the extent in which they are framed in such new age practices.

I’ve made a post about this subject specifically.

[icarus-suraki]

Sometimes, usually when something reminds me of it, I remember when I almost fell into the New Age rabbit hole. 

This isn’t a defense but hopefully can be an explanation: I was a teenager and I was getting bullied and laughed at by classmates and feeling absolutely awful (because untreated depression and anxiety will do that to you). And then a friend who was also bullied and laughed at sent me this chainletter email with a 100 question “quiz” to find out if you were a “Starseed.” So I took it and I got a high score on it and felt special and read all the junk at the bottom of the email about what it meant about you and your future and your “purpose” on earth and whatever and I kind of believed it.

Frankly, it just made dealing with being laughed at and called a loser easier. Like, yes, you might be laughing at me now, but just wait! You have no idea about Who I Really Am! It made me feel Special and Important.

In subsequent years, I’ve learned a lot more about that rabbit hole, like the rampant anti-Semitism inherent in it, the appropriation of Hindu traditions and culture, the fringe medical beliefs that have cost people their lives, the general pseudoscience... So I’m embarrassed about having (almost) fallen into that.

It’s just sometimes hard to reconcile what I know now with how much the surface-level ideas helped me then. 

I’m glad I never got deeper than surface level. This was the late 90s, so the internet wasn’t what it is today, so I could only get information out of a handful of library books that I read in secret. I think that saved me from more and worse. 

I’m just thinking about that “very strange time in my life” today, just because of a social media post somewhere, nothing more. But there’s my story.

[eldritch-queern-magicat]

I used to believe in twin flames, because I was desperate to feel complete. Because I didn't realize that the feeling of incompleteness came from my own dissociative barriers in my own mind.

When I first snapped out of it, it was hard to process, and I certainly wasn't ready to talk about it. What doesn't help is that I didn't fall down the rabbit hole alone. We were both drowning souls, clinging to whatever gave us comfort. We bonded over fandoms, and let our imaginations carry us away to the most ridiculous things. The spiritual things that happened just fueled the fire into an inferno.

We talked it out, and settled things just fine. The drowning souls bit was paraphrased from her. I just have a really hard time not feeling horrified at what could have happened. The possibilities scare me.

Edit: In case this wasn't plainly obvious, I do hate the concept of twin flames. It is completely toxic.

-Sammy 🧄😺