The Dark Side of Spiritual Community | Dogma, Salesy Sleaze and Conspiracies

Apparently it's time for me to have a gigantic moan about stuff that slightly irks me, stuff that somewhat concerns me, and stuff that makes me wanna log off and go to bed for a year. I hope you don't take any difference of opinion too personally. I know rant videos can lead to a lot of defensiveness, but honestly these are just my crotchety opinions - no need to take them to heart.

My video about dangers of deity work and fearmongering:
   • Deity Work is Dangerous.. Should You ...  

My video about predators in the spiritual community:
   • Spiritual Predators | Sexual, Emotion...  

A few articles you might like to read:

I went off my meds to be more spiritual:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/bl...
The dark side of wellness:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...
Spirituality and vaccine scepticism:
https://theconversation.com/covid-has...
Granola and guns - the rise of conspirituality:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/gra...

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:53 Dogma and pressure in witchcraft
14:27 Power-tripping Tarot readers
23:26 Sleazy sales tactics
29:26 Conspirituality
33:56 Medication or meditation
44:08 Spiritual exceptionalism
50:27 Spiritual bypassing and insensitivity
1:01:24 Extreme vegans
1:08:37 Conclusion
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