What time is the world supposed to end?

It is 12/21/12 at long last, I just noticed, after paying some some attention to the real, albeit mini, apocalypse that is Draco the Blizzar...

"Corporate America has its own religions, and one of them is Myers-Briggs."

Yea, even as there are 12 signs of the zodiac in Astrology, there are 16 personality types in Myers-Briggs. Academics would contend that......

"Bishop Robert Morlino cracks down on Madison nuns for espousing 'New Ageism' and 'indifferentism.'"

Sisters Maureen McDonnell and Lynn Lisbeth — Sinsinawa Dominicans — are in trouble for their interfaith spirituality center Wisdom's Wel...

15,000 journalists cover 5,000 delegates in what Dana Milbank calls a "media lovefest."

Yikes. I’ve had my deltoids massaged in candlelight by a licensed therapist; had a foaming pore cleanser and mask applied to my face by an a...

The Tony Robbins fire-walkers who got burned must have slowed down and stopped.

Just keep moving and you won't get hurt. Don't blame Tony Robbins. Blame those losers who didn't do it right. Thousands particip...

"Tony Robbins event ends in disaster as 21 people are treated for burns after walking on 2,000-degree hot coals."

"Robbins was hosting a four-day gathering called 'Unleash the Power Within.'" Unleash the stupidity within. Witnesses say ...

"A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended..."

"... in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach." They believe that when apoca...

In a "personal development seminar," Chantal Lavigne "was accidentally 'cooked to death' during a class called 'Dying in Consciousness.'"

This happened in Canada last year: Participants were wrapped in mud and plastic, covered with blankets, and left immobilized for about nine ...

"Many people say I want to kill myself because I do this."

"People can say what they want. I do it because I want to be cured." Electric therapy, via lying on railroad tracks, in Indonesia,...

At the New Age Café...

... keep your grip on reality. (Photograph location: Charles City, Iowa.) ADDED: A reader emails: I have been following your blog for quite ...

Sweat lodge guru guilty of negligent homicide.

Not guilty of manslaughter. Prosecutors argued that the lodge, made of willow trees and branches and covered with tarpaulins and blankets, w...

New Age nail polish nonsense.

"SpaRitual Nail Lacquers fuse the disciplines of color therapy with numerology to deliver vibrant pigments, which have the power to nur...

"Hello, my name is Eric and I'm a recovering male."

I love the monologue "The Recovering Male" from Eric Bogosian's "Pounding Nails into the Floor with My Head." (Read...

Michelle Obama: "It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us"

Keeping the spirits clean? She's out doing politics. Fine. She drags in prayer. I don't like that, but I'm used to the politica...

"I wanted to express something in the outer world that I feel inside... We seem to have lost that understanding of the whole of nature and the universe as a living entity."

Prince Charles feels a sense of purpose. Is that really so terrible ?

Why believe in a religion? Why not believe in 2 or 3 or more?

And throw in astrology and ghosts while you're at it. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a report [that]... points out t...