Tuesday 29 November 2011

Pseudoscience and Other New Age Myths


With the year 2012 just around the corner, I only dread to imagine the great volley of bullshit about to descend on us from the "vortex" of the so-called Indigo/Starseed newage movement. Heaven forbid all those ascended narcissists of the Pleiadean masterrace. Man, what sort of megalomania inspires the need to be some god-sent messenger of inhospitable stellar objects? Don't even talk to me about cosmic consciousness if you can't get your science or history right. All this goobledegook about chakra stimulation of the hypothalamus to "switch on" redundant DNA codes is a load of cryptic nonsense that does no justice to the scientific terms it abuses. Those glands not only regulate our involuntary functions, but affect the balance of our emotional and sexual behaviour. In essence, messing with it can induce a whole variety of bizarre psychosomatic disorders. Just the same, transcendental meditation, like mind altering drugs, should carry a warning about prolonged use. No surprise end of time cults have such a tendency to nihilism. No, it's not "negativity" or "bad karma" that accounts for the ills of this world, but the grand expectation that others should have to burden the brunt so "we can be saved". It's just another cop-out from taking any real personal responsibility.

Friday 11 November 2011