The Strange Connection Between New-Age Spirituality and the Alt-Right Pipeline
Not all is as it seems on that higher plane.
My mother could be one of the cruelest and coldest people I knew. She lacked empathy for people and saw the world as being filled with lazy people who just were working hard enough to get to a better place in life. People always believe me when I tell this part of the story, but they’re always shocked when I reveal the next part…
My mother was a new-age spiritual guru.
That’s right. My mother, the narcissist, the woman whose cruel child abuse tactics I have spread all over the internet, was a pretty well-known spiritual medium and energy healer. At least, that’s what she told the people who paid to sit on the phone with her.
She would clear out their chakras. Talk to their spirit guides. Sometimes, she would even call up their dead pets and give them all kinds of super magical advice based on what the stars were doing.
When she hung up the phone, however, my mother changed.
The spiritual guru slipped away and in her place was the screaming, demeaning harpy sitting on piles of animal feces and trash. She would run people down, and criticize their looks, and the way they lived their lives. She loved making fun of…
