#new age

[icedsodapop]

I've been listening to a bunch of tiktoks and videos about this new age spirituality tiktok influencer and I don't know about yall but my impressions on new age spirituality beliefs is that it's basically Christianity but hide it under a hodgepodge mismash of appropriated cultures that were originated by BIPOC.

Like, after a while, a lot of new age spirituality stuff sounds like a paraphrased version of angels and the prosperity gospel. It's so insidious and annoying, like these influencers are basically a warped version of televengelists.

#new age spirituality #new age #cultural appropriation #christianity

[vapormaeve]

Fluid (1996) - PlayStation

#fluid #PlayStation #90s #1990s #vaporwave #low poly #lo-fi #aesthetic #new age #dolphin #paradise #dreamz #vaporwave aesthetic #ps1 #naturewave #watercore #cleancore #glow #liminal #liminalcore

[creature-wizard]

Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

#starseed #starseeds #atlantis #ascension #5d #ancient aliens #ancient astronauts #ancient astronaut hypothesis #aliens #spiritualism #mysticism #dna activation #witchblr #new age #conspirituality #conspiracism

[phonographica]

Robert Slap & Steve Powell – Drive (1990)

#album art #music #robert slap #steve powell #1990s #synth #electronic #new age #synthwave #drive #cityscape #neo noir

[a-path-by-the-moon]

#blessing #relax #all is well #quotes #spiritual #inspiration #soul #life #inspirational #spirituality #universe #love #spirit #spiritual awakening #spiritual awareness #spiritual community #spiritual development #spiritual healing #spiritual journey #spiritualgrowth #spiritualguidance #spiritual disciplines #new age #mindfulness #consciousness #motivational #positive quotes #positive #positivemindset #positivity

[hearth-and-veil]

The victim-blamey direction new age spirituality has taken is a narcissist's wet dream. It's also bullshit.

NO: you are not disabled because you need to learn a karmic lesson.

NO: you did not choose to be born into an abusive family before incarnating.

NO: your trauma bonds are not soul bonds.

NO: you did not enter a "soul contract" with your abuser.

NO: you do not deserve to live in poverty because of a "past life."

NO: you do not go into "karmic debt" for standing up for yourself.

NO: the people pushing these narratives are not more spiritual than you; they don't "vibrate" at a "higher frequency" than you.

NO: your "past life" is not justification for people treating you like shit and hurting you in this one.

There is a reason people are pushing this narrative. There is a reason they so badly want you to believe the bad shit happening to you is something you chose and you deserve. It is text book victim blaming. If they can get you to blame yourself, for something you had absolutely no way to control, then they can get you to knuckle under and accept anything they do to you.

Don't knuckle under. Don't let people treat you like shit and say you asked for it before you were born. Don't let people convince you that things like poverty, mental illness, physical disability, and abuse are something you earned and that they won't stop until you learned your lesson, so just surrender.

"You can't control it, so just surrender," is the most pathetic bullshit I have ever heard.

#witchblr #witchcraft #witch #magic #witchy #witches of tumblr #spirituality #new age #karmic lesson #soul bond #soul contract

[wizardsaur]

Hey kids,

Let's talk about "woo-woo" people red flags, shall we?

If you've been in the occult, mystical, witchcraft game for long enough, you've probably seen your fair share of weirdos.

You know.

The ones who think the antisemitic conspiracies are real. The essential oils can cure cancer types. The guy who seems cool at first then seems convinced that the hand of God is in the Sahara desert.

There's more to being grounded in this community than avoided the racist norsepagans.

You are intelligent. You are wise. You have a world of resources and knowledge at your fingertips. And yet!

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO CULTS

It never starts out feeling crazy. It never feels crazy in the moment. Believing aliens built massive structures to channel energy around the world DOESN'T SEEM WEIRD. And it sure doesn't change when the entire group's thoughts collectively devolve into situations like Heaven's Gate.

No one who cut their hair and had their last meal at Marie Calendar's thought they were wrong.

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO CULTISH THOUGHT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO MISINFORMATION.

Be so careful peeps. It's human nature to want to belong, to want to learn more. Speaking as a 3 time cult joined, it is so fucking easy to lose yourself in online forums, threads, group chats...

#witchcraft #witch #magick #magic #witchy #pagan #baby witch #spell #witchblr #paganism #cult survivor #cw cults #tw cult #cults #qanonisacult #new age #pipeline

[alchemyofmaya]

#spirituality #ascension #enlightenment #the divine cosmic play of consciousness #christ consciousness #new earth #age of aquarius #new age #spiritual #awakening #awareness #game of chess

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Celtic New Age #New Age #Christmas Music #Ambient Pop #Film Soundtrack #1980s #1990s #Ireland #poll #Spotify

[lauren-adassovsky]

#5 frames #animation loop #angels #new age #animated gif

[postpunkindustrial]

#lady cybele #halloween #occult #new age #spoken word

[triangular-eye]

tarot observations

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- the fool/the magician: you are fully prepared for the journey you are stepping into.

- crossed swords imagery indicates a decisive decision needing to take place.

- knight of cups especially after a page, indicates somebody coming through that might start lovebombing you and telling you what you want to hear, anxious attachment, unstable concept of emotions.

- the devil may indicate somebody coming through with a sex or a stimulant addiction (caffeine, nicotine, hard stimulants), it may also indicate somebody you suspect has psychopathic tendencies.

- 5 of cups when asking “who?” may point to somebody you feel has abandoned you, or someone that ghosted you which you feel tense about.

- drawing the 7 of swords for “who?” indicates a very stubborn person, someone that would rather lie/extensively add on to the truth rather than own up to fucking up. someone that might make you nauseous with their energy.

- 9 of wands shows a person protecting everything they’ve gathered, ready to debate if they can manage to take on more (->10 of wands).

- aces/knights of swords/wands might indicate someone coming though to apologise to you

- the queen of cups for guidance teaches self love and accessing your intuition though your emotions

- ace of cups reversed indicates an emotional rejection occurring, forced self-love, the needing to pour your emotions inwards.

- 7 of wands may indicate walking on eggshells around the subject.

- pulling the magician about another person indicates this person moulds their personality to whoever they’re around.

#divination #tarotblr #tarot reading #tarot cards #tarot #tarot interpretation #astrology #spirituality #new age #tumblr milestone #art #the magicians #witches #witchcraft #witchblr #witchcore #ace of cups #ace of swords #ace of wands #new year #twin flame

[retroscifiart]

Joseph Parker ‘The Path’ (1973)

#Joseph Parker #visionary art #new age

[creature-wizard]

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

Since I'm seeing more starseed content being posted, I'm gonna make another post on why the whole starseed thing and the surrounding New Age belief system are... not good.

So for those who don't know, New Age mythology is essentially a hodgepodge of cherrypicked and distorted myths from various cultures, racist pseudohistory, and far right conspiracy theories. To put it very briefly, starseeds are supposedly here to help Earth resist the reptilians, a race of politics-manipulating, war-starting, media-controlling blood-drinking aliens. For those who don't recognize the tropes here, these are basically all antisemitic canards. The reptilian alien myth as most know it today comes from David Icke, who ultimately cribbed a bunch of his material from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Jews. He was also influenced by the work of people like Fritz Springmeier, a hateful crank who based much of his work on other hateful cranks.

(David Icke, by the way, also claims that transgender is an evil reptilian conspiracy. You'll never find just one form of bigotry with these people.)

There are supposedly numerous alien races out there, and one of the most prominent among them are the Pleiadians, AKA Nordics. While modern depictions of the Pleiadians give them more variety in skintone, there's no denying that older Pleiadian mythology basically pictured them as Aryans In Space, even associating them with the swastika.

You see what's going on here? "Good" swastika-loving Aryan aliens versus "evil" Jewish aliens? Sound familiar?

Racism isn't just a tangential part of the starseed myth, either. It lies at its very core. It's inextricably tied in with the ancient astronaut hypothesis, which has a history of racist motivation behind it. The TL;DR is that a bunch of white people couldn't believe that non-white people had built a bunch of things they couldn't figure out how to build themselves (EG, the Great Pyramids), so they proposed that the real builders were anyone from Atlanteans to aliens. (Atlantis, by the way, never existed; it was a literary device created by Plato.)

One supposed purpose of starseeds is to help the world "wake up to the truth," which basically just means "convert people to New Age spirituality." New Age believes that world peace is contingent on a majority of the world being converted to New Age belief, and that resistance against their belief system is ultimately the work of the aforementioned reptilian aliens.

To put it another way, New Agers think they understand other cultures' spiritual traditions better than the actual members of said cultures, and think that anyone who disagrees with them is being manipulated by the conspiracy, or is an agent of the conspiracy. This includes Indigenous cultures which are already endangered from white Christian colonialism.

Essentially, endangered cultures cannot speak up for themselves and resist New Agers' efforts at cultural assimilation without being labeled a problem and an enemy. It's basically white Christian colonialism repackaged as "spiritual, not religious."

Again - if you heard from these people that some ancient text or myth describes extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet for one reason or another, you heard misinformation. They twist and misrepresent literally every myth and text they get their hands on. For example, you may have heard that the vimanas from Hindu traditions were actually alien spacecraft. They were no such thing. Or maybe you heard that the Book of Enoch describes aliens performing genetic experimentation on humans. It literally does not. At best, all of the stories they cite just kind of sound like aliens if you ignore most of their content and pay no attention to their cultural contexts.

The starseed movement preys on alienated people, especially autistic people and people with ADHD. You can look up nearly any list of signs that you're supposedly a starseed, and many of them will align perfectly with characteristics associated with autism and/or ADHD, or that people with these conditions commonly report. Some people within the movement even go so far as to claim that ADHD and autism don't even exist, but were actually made up by the conspiracy as a cover to suppress and control starseeds, which is some yikes-as-hell ableism.

So basically, people are being told that if they have these certain characteristics or symptoms, that means it's their job to spread New Age spirituality to defeat the conspiracy and help others ascend to the fifth density.

And what's the fifth density, you might ask? It's supposedly humanity's next evolutionary level, because New Age is also based on biological misconceptions. Supposedly once everyone's DNA "upgrades," they'll essentially morph into an aetheric form. Supposedly, this is preceded by a number of "ascension symptoms," including depression, headache, gastrointestinal issues, and any number of other symptoms that could indicate almost anything, including stress.

What many of these people don't realize is, this prediction has already failed. Back in the 2000s and 2010s, experiencing "ascension symptoms" was supposed to precede ascension to 5D beginning December 21, 2012. One lady, Denise Le Fay, was convinced that the hair loss she was experiencing in 2008 was an ascension symptom. As we can see by looking her up, she's very much still with us on the 3D plane these days, repeating the same tired old scripts New Agers recycle endlessly.

By the way, everything you near New Agers saying today about old systems being dismantled, dark forces being arrested or kicked off the planet, and new economic systems on the horizon? They've been recycling these scripts for years now. Take a look at this page written back in 2012. You got stuff about the complete dismantling of an enormous network of sinister forces," "the arrest and removal of a world-wide cabal," and a "new economic system."

("Cabal," by the way, is a dogwhistle term for "Jews.")

Furthermore, people in this movement are often encouraged to try and access past life memories through dreams or hypnosis, which makes the whole thing feel even more real to them. But the thing is, you can have incredibly vivid experiences about literally anything you put your mind to - the people in the reality shifting having vivid experiences of living another life in the Harry Potter universe are a great example of this. Just because you have vivid experiences, doesn't mean they have any bearing on anything happening in this reality.

So yeah, the starseed movement and the larger New Age movement are both extremely harmful. They promote racist pseudohistory, medically-irresponsible pseudoscience, conspiracy theories that target numerous marginalized groups, and functionally target aliened people with ADHD and autism to convince them that spreading its beliefs is their job.

#starseed #starseeds #new age #new age beliefs #ascension #5d #fifth density #spirituality #racism #antisemitism #ableism #transphobia #ascension symptoms #conspirituality #conspiracy theories #conspiracism #ancient aliens #ancient astronauts #ancient astronaut hypothesis #aliens #extraterrestrials #pseudoarchaeology #archaeology #pleiadians #pleiadian #dna upgrade #autism #adhd #colonialism

[phonographica]

Arden Wilken - Deep Touch (1987)

#album art #music #1980s #arden wilken #ambient #new age #electronic #relaxation #meditation #dreamcore

[a-path-by-the-moon]

#spiritual awakening #change #find yourself #spiritual awareness #spiritualgrowth #spirituality #spiritual #spiritual community #spiritual development #spiritual healing #spiritual journey #spiritualguidance #quotes #inspiration #soul #life #inspirational #universe #love #spirit #spiritual disciplines #new age #shamanism