Important Dates In The NewAge Movement
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities
1975
John Barbagelata (March 29, 1919 – March 19, 1994) maintained that the Peoples Temple far-left religious cult, led by Jim Jones, committed election fraud in the 1975 election
1977
Helen Reddy releases “I Am Woman” which she said had supernatural and divine origins.
1978
The New York Times confirmed John Barbagelata’s theory, admitting Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds in 1975. Bogus and divisive Hate Crime laws, based on more deceit from the Democrat Party, followed.
1986
The Oprah Winfrey Show starts hosting charlatans and cult leaders, like Shirley MacLaine, on U.S. daytime television.
1987
The Harmonic Convergence is the world's first synchronized global peace meditation, supposedly coinciding with an exceptional alignment of Solar System planets - and announcing a new glorious era in the life of mankind - but was really just this elaborate scam ‘spiritual’ people decided to believe and maintain. At all costs.
1993
The New York Times revealed Hillary spouting the same “theory of everything” jabberwocky as Bill Clinton’s cult leader, Ken Wilber, in the article Saint Hillary. She and Terrence Howard should get along swimmingly.
1996
The New York Times informed us the White House Plays Down a New Age Visitor: "No one had preached this [NewAge] message more effectively, or profitably, than [Marianne] Williamson, who took the initiative to suggest that Hillary consider getting together with her and Jean Houston,…Jean Houston became a close advisor of Hillary’s, and on numerous occasions she stayed at the White House for days at a time. Part of the therapy, often called “channeling,” included guiding Hillary in conversations with the dead—Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi to be precise,…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."
The New York Times - Recycling Is Garbage said rituals like “Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but it’s a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.” The kicker: “Americans have embraced recycling as a transcendental experience,…” as well as an easy way to judge and boss other people around.
1997
Friends broadcasts The One With The Cat where “Phoebe is upset that Ross will not respect her belief that [a cat] is her mother,…and Rachel suggests that to fix their friendship he apologize to Mrs. Buffay's spirit, which he does.” Because that’s totally what scientists do when faced with loved ones forcing nonsensical delusions on them.
1999
Politically Incorrect had Christopher Hitchens trying to prove Bill Clinton is a three-time rapist, but being shouted down, and pooh-poohed by the supposedly-outspoken host, Bill Maher, and his other guests from the Democrat Party.
2000
Skeptical Inquirer exposed NewAge cults in Medical schools after publishing Rogerian Nursing Theory: A Humbug in the Halls of Higher Learning by Jef Raskin, a writer, interface design consultant, and cognitive psychology researcher married to a Nurse. He also created and led the Macintosh project at Apple Computer Inc.
The White House announced when President Clinton Named Five Members to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy - and they were all NewAge quacks.
2001
Cabinet Magazine published Slavoj Žižek’s FROM WESTERN MARXISM TO WESTERN BUDDHISM, which states “New Age is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism.”
2002
Camille Paglia released Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s, and confirmed she, too, was once a member of the NewAge cult.
2004
Whole Foods’ “spiritual advisor” Marc Gafni is exposed as a sexual predator. He works with Bill Clinton’s cult leader, Ken Wilber. A very handsy crowd.
2005
Francis Wheen publishes How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions where he “brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way,” along with tales of the Clintons following cult leaders and Tony Blair and his wife bathing in papaya in New Mexico.
The Spectator announces we’re officially in The Age of Unreason.
PBS broadcasts Richard Dawkins’ The Enemies of Reason - Part 1: Slaves to Superstition
2006
Whole Foods’ “spiritual advisor” Marc Gafni is again exposed as an even bigger sexual predator.
2007
Newsweek asked Has Jim Carrey Flipped Out? after he “found spiritual enlightenment, and it's so awesomely awesome that he just has to tell you about it. For hours. Even if you didn't ask.” Carrey’s career, and personal character have never recovered from the change. And no one’s asked him about it, either.
Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of Barack Obama should not have helped him, since she was promoting The Secret at the same time. And - considering she was running that scam - he shouldn’t have wanted her endorsement. But both happened.
Tony Blair’s NewAge wife, Cherie, released her memoirs, which Max Hastings said described ‘a "me" person with bells on, obsessed with self-fulfilment, oblivious of the impact of her words and actions upon others."‘
2009
Science-Based Medicine labels Dr. Michael Dixon - King Charles’ future royal homeopath - A Pyromaniac In a Field of (Integrative) Straw Men
Slate Magazine cries Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?
Three people die following The Secret after seeing Oprah’s endorsement.
2011
Bezinga tells us Steve Jobs died of a treatable cancer after opting for “alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements, and juices.” (It’s amazing how little Jobs is quoted on the subject of how he stupidly killed himself, considering how often he’s quoted as being a genius.)
The Daily Mail kept up with 'Slightly mad' Cherie: Mrs Blair wore a pendant to ward off evil spirits and cope with No 10, says Campbell
Reason Magazine on the man called The New Age Assassin
2012
The Daily Mail revealed the SS recommended yoga to death camp guards as a good way to de-stress
CNN told us Marianne Williamson promoted anti-vaxxer theories on her radio show
The San Jose Mercury News saw 21 people treated for burns after a firewalk at a Tony Robbins appearance
2014
The New York Times confirmed you’re being gaslighted - because there were WMD in Iraq - in a piece called The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
2015
Vox ignorantly said Mad Men's series finale was a beautiful, perfect ending to the show, after they watched Don Draper just-as-ignorantly, buy into the NewAge bullshit of 1987’s Harmonic Convergence.
2016
The Daily Mail reveals the Celebrity Anti-Vaccination Squad featuring future Trump uberhaters Robert De Niro, Jim Carrey, and Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Salon Magazine revealed How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy
Whole Foods’ “spiritual advisor” Marc Gafni is again exposed as an even bigger sexual predator. To this, cult leader Ken Wilber said “Marc has a lot of Shakti,” using a Sanskrit word for energy.
2017
The New York Post on How Team Hillary played the press for fools on Russia: “Within 24 hours of her concession speech,…her communications team [engineered] the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours,…they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
Wired reported on the cruel details, and excruciatingly ugly NewAge demise, of cancer researcher Elizabeth Targ, in A Prayer Before Dying
2018
Slate Magazine provides more evidence Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our American Fantasyland
2019
France24 told us, for the last 200 years, there’s been A 'grave error': France to phase out coverage for homeopathy
The Conversation reminded us MLK was just another preacher raping his flock with I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light
The Cut announced Ronan Farrow Says Bill Clinton Was ‘Credibly Accused’ of Rape long after Christopher Hitchens and MSNBC’s Lisa Myers already announced it.
Well+Good said Marianne Williamson needs to stop giving medical advice but why stop there?
2020
Politico reported The New Identity Politics of New York Mayor Eric Adams included “meditation routine begins with eight deep breaths, followed by four short breaths, followed by 10 breaths out of each nostril, alternating nostrils (20 nostril breaths total).” [This is also done by Hillary Clinton, and Comedian Ron White, though totally debunked as nonsense.] He learned that New York sits on a store of rare gems and stones, and believes that as a result, “there’s a special energy that comes from here.” On his right wrist he wears a pair of multi-colored energy stone bracelets. He has read several books by Joe Dispenza, a neuroscientist and faculty member at Honolulu’s Quantum University whose bestseller, Becoming Supernatural, teaches that we can transform our physical and emotional state through the teachings of quantum physics,…On stage with Adams on election night was another Quantum University faculty member, Bindu Babu, an integrative medicine practitioner and reiki instructor whom Adams appointed to his health transition team,…” [Reiki is a laughable scam - or would be if people didn’t take it seriously.]
2021
The Pew Research Center found Most Indians, including most Hindus, do not practice yoga
2023
Tikhistory makes clear NewAge was the Nazi’s religion, in The cult many are in but don’t realize
The Thing tells us Jim Carrey's Association To Scientology Is One That Had A Tragic Ending For His Ex-Girlfriend, like that’s a surprise.
The Telegraph says ‘So many yoga gurus try to have sex with female followers – I’m amazed women still fall for it’
Only Sky reports Duke University expands its reiki pseudoscience program [Again: Reiki is a laughable scam - or would be if people didn’t take it seriously.]
Edzard Ernst asked when Bill Clinton defender Suzanne Somers died – another victim of so-called alternative medicine?
2024
The New York Times reminds us we’re being jerked around with Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
Dr. Edzard Ernst reminded us that Bill Clinton’s NCCIH (formerly NCCAM, formerly OAM) has proven to be a monumental, unethical waste of money
GBH reminds us Marianne Williamson says she's a 'homeopathic remedy' in the 2024 presidential election
Matt Taibbi explained why Dems Are More Dangerous Than Republicans, and it mostly boiled down to a “cultish vibe” he’d finally picked-up on.
NPR enlightened us with Religious 'Nones' are now the largest single group in the U.S.