New Age spirituality has become a cesspool of garbage

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Instead of worrying about deities and rules I think I'll just focus on the art of witchcraft itself and go by my own rules. I may even take a look at how to use the bible in spellwork like they do in hoodoo and Appalachian folk magic with the Book of Psalms.

My specialty and favorite thing to do is read tarot cards and regular playing cards. I feel like I have a natural talent for it.

New Age "Spirituality" has always been a bogus concept, with practitioners fooling each other as to how much "spirituality" they claim to have.

Personally, I found it useful for providing personal income from gullible clients, every one of whom was a "Seeker".

And, as P.T. Barnum once said, "There is a seeker born every minute" . . . or something like that.

Yes, gullible people being defrauded of their life's savings always ticked me off, too.  But when someone sat down at my table for a 30-dollar reading, and my interpretation of what the cards or the horoscope said was exactly what they wanted to hear, they would often leave at least a 10-dollar tip.  And when a month's worth of tips helped offset my child-support payments, it was impossible for me to feel sorry for some gullible BMW-driving daddy's girl dropping a few Hamiltons in my jar on her way out the door.

"For Entertainment Purposes Only", read the sign above my chair.  I provided entertainment, and they kept Child Support Collections off my back.  A fair deal, no matter how you look at it.

That's why my general rule is don't trust psychics who charge for readings.

The worst are the astrologers and tarot card readers on YouTube who build a literal cult-like following of commentors who shower them with money and gifts and verbally attack anybody who criticizes their predictions.

And any time these fake psychics express a Donald Trump bias praising the bastard while ignoring everything he has done I just want to reach through my screen and smack em.

I trust 'psychics' to try to get their hands on my money, whether they post fee schedules or not.

Even the ones who threw cards for free at parties eventually offered more detailed readings for a price.  They would get the seekers hooked on the basics, and then start charging for the extras.  Eventually, the 'psychic' would have regular clients dropping a hundred dollars a week just to be told what they wanted to hear.

If 'psychics' are so powerful, then why do they have to ask for your name?

The problem with blanket ignoring anything labelled "new age" is that there are legitimate investigations unfairly and unscientifically labelled as "pseudoscience" or "new age" by the media and relevant scientific organisations.

One simple example is the propensity of archaeological science to selectively accept some bodies of evidence that fit (often dubiously) into specific theories that are the current paradigm and then demand new research show unrealistically high levels of evidence before they will be considered (and even then they ignore the new evidence until one their colleagues publishes the previously ignored information themselves and then it becomes a "discovery"

Back in the 1960s explorer Thor Heyerdahl wrote about oral traditions in the Indian ocean and pacific islands about bearded men who indigenous people state bought civilisation to their islands following a great cataclysm in his books about his "Kon Tiki" explorations where he also put forward the idea that ancient people had the capacity for sea voyages. His ideas were labelled as strange and new age and and he was labelled a crackpot.

In the 1980s another writer named Graeme Hancock independently came up with his own investigation into an ancient civilisation that existed prior to the ice age and that advanced civilisations existed long ago but were destroyed in a great flood. He too was labelled as a new age crackpot.

Then in the 1990s a German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt found evidence of a 12,000 year old advanced stone temple complex in Turkey that was not supposed to exist. Then new discoveries kept coming. A complex civilisation in Gudung Padang in Indonesia was found to be 20,000 years old. Underwater cities with evidence of ships and harbours of the coast of India in Dwarka were also found to be 12,000 years old.

Suddenly anything is possible, what was new age becomes fact overnight.