Sometimes I forget that some of my upbringing was not normal. While reading this article about the recent sweat lodge deaths in Sedona, I was reminded: Oh yeah, I was forced to go into a sweat lodge as a part of high school curriculum. “Forced” is too strong, as I’m sure I could have gotten [...]

Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds has the whole story about the UFO cult Unarius. This recent documentary is pretty immense:

On the Daily Grail recently, someone linked to the Luminosity blog, which seems to have it out for the New Age as being a kind of spiritual fascism. If we’re all equal consciousness, then individuality doesn’t matter.  If that’s the case, then killing one member of the hive won’t matter because the hive will exist [...]

On a lighter note, I just received this as a submission at Self-Publishing Review.  Not spam:
Greetings!
I’m an advocate of your immediate progression in life. Do receive the utensils of life which are my words of wisdom. Not sent to diminish your accolades of self grown life experiences, but to assist in nurturing [...]