new age spiritualities

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San…

Pat Robertson, the notorious and influential television evangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, is not new to the yogaphobic maelstrom that has been brewing for as long as…

As Luke Coppen noted in a recent piece in The Spectator, Francis “has been spun as a left-liberal idol,” in the popular media. There is reason to believe, however, that conservatives are also…

I went to India searching for spiritual enlightenment. I found a neoliberal heaven that catered to my worst possible self. That’s almost true. I took my journalism class to India this past spring to…

Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it proved to be a textbook example of what I call the mystification, medicalization, mainstreaming, and…

Getting lost in the music and found in the sound.

Last week, media reported on a psychological study suggesting that white people are predisposed to ascribe superhuman and magical qualities to black people. Spike Lee famously described the trope of…

There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them…

This week a news item has been making the rounds concerning a video of New Age channeler JZ Knight making offensive remarks about Jews, Catholics, Mexicans, and gays. An article by Susy Buchanan of…

Last week, Raw Story featured an unusual summer travel spot— The Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Although skeptics have dismissed the museum as “full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls…