New Age Spirituality Quotes

“They don't want to sell you pills. They want to sell you a key to enlightenment they don't actually possess”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“Spirituality is supposed to be an act of self awareness – an act of self-discovery - instead it has become a domain of new-age superstitions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“To bow like sheep or bend like goat, is sign of neither sanctity nor awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Remove guilt from mass, and control from yoga, and both can be equally therapeutic, but to bow like sheep or bend like goat, is sign of neither sanctity nor awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“The world is swarming with spiritual tourists, who confuse breathing exercises to be the breath of life, and bedtime stories to be divine awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Superstition in Our Marrow (Sonnet 2428)

Earth is a planet of apes,
ivory tower apes diss faith out of reason,
pulpit apes diss reason out of faith -

then there are the newage apes,
chasing goat yoga, chakra penetration,
fortune cards, and aura farming,
who diss both conventional religion
and science, for they've found a more
self-absorbed method of hallucination.

Superstition runs through the marrow
of the human race, with each new generation
it merely changes costume.
Religion is superstition,
intellect is superstition,
newage spirituality is superstition -

from the sharpest of reason to the blindest of faith,
eventually all end up in superstition,
because in pursuit of a meaning higher than life,
we get disconnected from simple miracles of nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm done trying to please everybody,
the academic robot,
the religious fanatic,
the newage crackpot -
I'm done tiptoeing on eggshells.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Beginner's Guide to The East
(Naskaristana 2758-2760)

Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice -

for once in your life grow the brain and backbone to look at life as a living being, not as shape shifting vegetable, trading one gullibility for another, one fanaticism for another, one dogma for another -

there's no point in denouncing domestic dogma, if you end up importing your prejudices and blind faith from elsewhere.

Problem is, the race of apes have a stronger affinity to superstition than common sense, no matter the country or culture - westerners are drawn to eastern superstitions, just like easterners are drawn to western superstitions like ultraindividualism.

However, there is one little caveat here, while western ultraindividualism is rather straightforward and easy to detect, superstitions of the east, or in fact, any of the civilizations of global south, are often too complex for western comprehension -

so be very careful while calling out superstitions of the global south, in fact, put your caucasian cleverness aside, and take your cues from actual native thinkers, otherwise chances are, you'd be continuing your filthy ancestral habits of calling the natives savages, brainwashed by your subconscious colonial mindset, while believing yourself to be the voice of reason, not unlike how many of the brilliant militant atheists behave.

Remember one thing, the entire colonial terrorist lot not only believed that God was on their side, they also thought they were the voice of reason - so no matter how sure you are about your sense of truth, dehumanization always comes bearing the badge of religion, and waving the flag of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My spirituality has to do with equality, ethics and accountability, not aura, incense and vibration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace