New Age Victim Disease & The Break Down of Society
New Age VD has an insidious set of symptoms one can observe unraveling the fabric of society. If you are not a victim yourself you may have also observed some of the mechanics I am about to describe or experienced them for yourself. The people doing this will not see this for themselves. People just can’t see their own baggage. For those who can see it we really need to look at the detrimental effect VD is having on us collectively. It’s no longer isolated to the stereotypical communes or to flower children, its showing up everywhere.
A lot of us on a spiritual or truth seeking journey have wandered into the New Age Dichotomy, we just as quickly wandered back out again realizing it’s not a spiritual or empowering practice. No matter how ever much they hate the word, it is a religion inhabited by people who are adept at emotional manipulation. Not in a clever, methodical, premeditated, cunning way like your typical oily con man, but in a reactive, childish, emotionally arrested way you have probably witnessed in very young children. They are quite unaware of what they are doing or as another spiritual truth seeker put it, “Please forgive them, they know not what they do.”
This really isn’t about forgiving them or turning the other cheek. We’re long past that. Looking the other way has entrenched us even further in this malign decline of our essential humanity. This about when and how and where to set boundaries with New Age Beliefs because it is gaining more ground everyday in our communities, government, institutions of learning, our freedom to intellectually and responsibly express ourselves, and even the way we socialize with each other.
New Agers would like you to confuse their New Age Beliefs with Metaphysics. I want to clarify they are not the same thing. If there is anything slightly metaphysical about New Age Beliefs, they’ve corrupted and resized metaphysics to suit their emotional temperament. In actuality ,if the typical New Age Believer had any sort of comprehensive metaphysical education they wouldn’t be so quick to adopt a central, shared mindset which ‘sounds’ empowering but is really just Victim Mentality.
Victim Disease.
VD is a psychological social disease. We see it and hear it but we don’t know what it is. Not be confused with an actual victim of misfortune, accident, or disease. Those people want to get better, feel better. Victim Disease people want to hold on to their disease and wring as much energy and attention as they can from it.
Metaphysics is a means of observing the natural world. It’s based on energetic interactions, numbers, geometrics, and psychological archetypes. While spirituality plays a catalytic role in metaphysics it concerns itself only with unveiling portions of the inner and outer world which previously remained hidden. Anti-occult, no longer hidden. A means of observing, it’s not a belief system, it’s a tool for managing one’s affairs.
New Age Belief Systems are just that. Beliefs are not based on observation or evidence. They are based on emotional temperatures. Unlike metaphysics, which is observable, it’s an occult system. It’s primary motivations must be hidden in order to operate. That is why it so insidious.
New Agers will even try very hard to convince you New Age Beliefs are the crossroads where science and spirituality meet. They need the validation of science because the belief doesn’t hold much water. Science doesn’t have much use for New Age Belief though. Because New Agers have not studied metaphysics in a comprehensive way they don’t know science and spirituality address two different paradigms.
Like Science, Metaphysics is based on observation and testing. But authentic metaphysics has no emotional investment in being accepted by science. It was the first science, it was the first chemistry–alchemy– and most modern sciences evolved from it. While science explains the natural world, metaphysics helps us to observe our place and impact in that world.
New Age uses these fundamental practices to distort world view—not to clarify or enlighten—but for their own personal self-gratification. In doing so, they destroy any usefulness metaphysics may have for others. Science is fine as long as science is serving their agenda. Science often does not so New Age Believers are just as inclined to attack it as elitist—science is filled with all sorts of intelligent people not thinking with their emotions.
Even plain old philosophical people are attacked in the same manner.
Science hasn’t succumbed entirely to this form of emotional manipulation but New Age Believers have destroyed many useful metaphysical and self-development practices. These have to be destroyed; science, and metaphysics and spiritual philosophies are capable of observing Victim Mentality. As far as VD is concerned anything healthier has to go. So the disease eats from the inside out.
There used to be an energetic practice called Reiki. It was based on a Buddhist philosophy of ‘clearing the dust from your soul’—cleaning out our emotional baggage. Once Reiki was westernized and seized upon by the New Age, it lost of most of its efficacy because self-examination and taking responsibility for one’s self is not in the New Age Agenda. So those scary principles of self-empowerment had to be written out. You will have to look hard to find any remnant of the practice of setting down your baggage in modern Reiki. Indeed, the current version tends to add more baggage. One of the central tenants of the traditional form of Reiki was never approach anyone to heal if you had excessive amounts of baggage. All New Agers do.
Unfortunately, a lot of New Age VD carriers insist they are healers even though they remain metaphysically (and scientifically) emotionally unqualified to do so. One’s own belief has destroyed or distorted even metaphysical healing principles so how efficient can they be? They are actually very destructive to themselves and are busily spreading the disease into the greater population. Why? Because it feels ‘nice.’
So while Metaphysics is a means of observing the world, New Age Belief is a belief. It’s really just re-upholstered Christianity revolving around Biblical concepts like ascension. New Age Belief is filled with contradictions, using confused but comforting slogans like ‘The spirit cannot be mastered,’ but then proclaiming themselves as ‘Spiritual Masters.’ How is that possible if spirit cannot be mastered?
It’s a puzzle all right but never ask them for clarification or the Inner Old Testament God in them will rise up. How dare you question my non-sense?
New Age has tried to re-adapt Buddhism to suit its tastes but with less success . Buddhism is a philosophy that has tough stuff in it—self-reflection, owning your emotional baggage, self-governance. It too had to be glossed over to take all that laborious self-development work out so the typical New Ager could be perfect just the way they are. Special.
Eating other religions and philosophies and even sciences to suit their emotional tastes. The disease grows larger, and even more destructive. These are tenants that compose our society and culture.
Even those who claim they are not New Agers end up with its VD. Social diseases know no boundaries.
You can observe the VD behaviors in a base that claims to abhor it. The Christian community. It’s now present in Conservative Politics, even though most of the New Age claims itself as Liberal.
But … New Age Belief is really just a fluffy adaptation of Christianity. This may explain why it’s leaking into the bilge areas of our US government boats which proclaims itself representative of a Christian nation.
The New Age wants to be perceived as special. If you view them as plain old, ordinary people it’s a major offense. In reality, it’s the rare person who walks a comprehensive journey of inner self development. New Agers want veneration for something they never did in the first place and that is what is taught in US schools now. This sort of insidious programming leaks into our schools where all children get a gold star and trophies regardless if they did nothing at all. Robbed of the ability to challenge themselves, rise above it all, and accomplish something meaningful. Because a less motivated child might feel bad for not being motivated.
Early childhood development means the school must turn your child into an emotional therapist, always making others feel safe. If your Child is not Jung, adept at navigating the psyche of others before their own is fully developed, it’s possible they are a bully risk now. That is a horrible imposition to place on child. But it makes adults feel good.
How many teachers have we heard of who have claimed their emotional and sexual comfort from their pupil? Too many?
Because the US is primarily a Christian nation, that may be why New Age VD, which was adapted from its principles, is so insidiously and subtly , and invisibly insinuating itself into the fabric of society making us all a nation of Victims, ready to be conquered by a Victor at any moment. Who is going to win the Victim or the Victor? Victims never win, that’s why they are called Victims.
The US gov has been showing a lot of Victim Disease lately. Our government, in all its dubious wisdom, has decided in its childish way if you are not with its agenda you are a bully– a domestic terrorist. Dredging up the old New Age juvenile philosophy of “If you aren’t with me, you are against me.”
So instead of focusing on hard cold numbers, statistics, and intellectual matters like economy, employment, finance—our Government is now only concerned about emotion—terrorism. Apparently there’s no room for both anymore.
All that logistical stuff is driven by ‘feelings’ now.
The New Age Believer is all about being outraged over ‘the controllers’ and the New World Order Agenda. Yet, that’s how control is achieved, failure to manage one’s self. Get an entire nation adopting New Age behaviors; society breaks down. If you can’t manage your emotions, if you insist others should manage them for you, they will.
They will control you.
Spirituality is all about balancing emotion and logic so they two work with each other instead of against each other. More evidence New Age is not about spirituality. It’s a personally and socially corrosive and destructive meme.
Bullying and emotional terrorism is big with New Age Beliefs and the Victim Disease they carry. The Victim needs a bully or an Abuser to help them fulfill their role. If one isn’t nearby they will create one on the spot from the first person who makes the great moral transgression of not agreeing with their inner world view.
Although this has turned into a subtle plague, New Age Believers have very defined and predictable patterns which are easy to spot. All are socially disruptive and exhausting so it’s hard to overlook them.
Visit any public forum, online or off. Any reasonable, rational discussion risks triggering an outburst from someone with VD. It makes for a hostile environment for intelligent expression they perceive is greater than their own. Because they try to think with their emotions they don’t reason things out very well. They even hear things that aren’t said—cognitive dissonance. Because they often find themselves in the presence of people who don’t think with their emotions, they end up feeling stupid. They become angry because they can’t understand the topic.
That’s your fault. Stop thinking with your mental processes and think with your heart–your emotions.
Do you see how this isolates people, inhibits them? It doesn’t bring people together, it drives them apart. They can’t open their mouth without a Victim taking offense. You can’t do anything without damaging them so you are criminal for remaining rational, and responsive and non-reactive. They seek your attention and when you don’t give it to them them in a way that gratifies them…you’re a psychological criminal.
The New Ager is really prone to throwing itself on anything it perceives as a sword. This could be a conversation about cancer, when a Victim comes hurtling from the stage-left darkness to condemn you as cruel. You’ve just reminded the Victim her mother-aunt-dog-goldfish-died of cancer recently…or 40 years ago.
See, she somehow forgot a central fact in her life and you cruelly reminded her by bringing up the latest research in cancer treatments.
You are an abuser.
A bully created right on the spot.
Can we see a correlation between this and the ‘alleged’ rise in bully behaviors? Are they really bully behaviors or is it New Age Victim reaction? Bullies created instantly as the emotionally unsafe New Ager winds their way through the world waving their magic bully wand.
Feelings and emotions are often irrational, thus when you attempt to think with them you come off as irrational. Thinking doesn’t require emotion although out-of- control emotions will make us think irrationally. How emotionally hepped do you need to be add 35+ 5?
Still, we all think with our emotions sometimes (I think I’ll have another carton of ice cream!) Most of us don’t make a habit of it. It’s engrained behavior with New Agers and others with VD. This is referred to as the dumbing down of a population, programmed to think and react with emotions instead of using mental process and response (response being the root of responsibility). Because they are constantly reassured life is really just all about their feelings, there’s no motivation to halt this destructive psychological chain of constant emotional and chemical reaction.
How did the finance companies get people who logically couldn’t afford a 400k house to burden themselves with a mortgage beyond their means? Not with a reality cheque. All emotions, no logic, no numbers.
But New Age Believers aren’t responsible, you are. It doesn’t matter if you the greatest mind in the world, a literary genius, a rocket scientist, contributing great intellectual and scientific knowledge to the world. To them you are nothing but a potential baby sitter.
Primary mission here is to kill all signs of intelligent life so they don’t feel stupid for thinking with their emotions.
Everything is about their feelings, so there is no curiosity about new or different ideas unless those ideas serve them by propping up their leaking beliefs. That kills progression, there’s no advancement, no solutions. For such self-professed, open-minded free thinkers, a new or different idea will either ‘hurt their feelings’ or send them into a state of emotional arrest expected of a three year old. The usual VD reaction, emotional sensitivities, emotional allergies to anything that doesn’t comfort or conform to them.
Who adopts a belief system that makes them so weak?
The weak.
Why is our nation so weak right now?
Because of adopting VD as part of our social mechanics.
Compare the state of the Union now, when it should be stronger, to 300 years ago when Farmers landed on these shores, plowed out a nation, and whipped George III”s red coated taxes. Now We the People can’t manage our own civil servants who are running through the White House spooked into violent reaction because they think they see a burka lurking in the Rose Garden.
Why is there so much fear porn and propaganda. Who is issuing it? Victims.
Who’s reacting to it? Victims.
Coincidentally, the New Age Believer pushing their pseudo-metaphysical agenda will break down too. Again, not cunning confidence men but emotionally arrested children in adult bodies (running our social affairs! ) One form of insanity they use to harm themselves and others is waving their belief system where you can’t ignore them. Like children they MUST be seen. But then grow offended if their belief, under close scrutiny, fails to hold water.
New Agers do not have the inability to separate themselves from an idea or belief. So if you criticize the idea, they perceive themselves as personally attacked.
More Victim / Abuser chain reaction. The Victim becomes the Abuser at light speed (pun intended). And it’s not just critique of their personal beliefs (which are no longer personal but becoming all too wide-spread) it’s also your ideas they can’t separate from because of this obsession with their own emotional safety.
More crazy making. Although obsessed with safety they will throw themselves on any sword you may currently have at hand. It may be a discussion about your ham sandwich (How DAAAARE you!! I’M a VEGAN!! ) Whatever is coming out of your mouth, no matter how innocuous, is a potentially a sharp object to damage them with. The blunter it is the more it cuts.
But YOU should always be aware of their sensitive trigger points because everyone is a mind reader (or should be). You should know they are standing in the dark, just off stage left or right of the conversation, ready to take anything you say personally, even though you don’t know them , and you previously had no idea they were there until they arrived flying the red cape of outrage. You SHOULD have known they were there, it’s all about them. And because you didn’t, you are just plain egotistical.
Ego is big touch stone with VD. Because New Age VD comes with its own baggage it also comes packed with a suitcase full of petri dishes to provide evidence of its presence.
When you perpetrate the unimaginable crime of not agreeing with their opinions those with New Age VD will accuse you of another equally horrible one:
“You HAVE an EGO!!”
You may admit to possessing this biological and psychological imperative that urges you to scramble out of the way if a bus is about to hit you. Sorry to inform you that is morally incorrect. It’s holier to sacrifice yourself to the bus gods.
Again New Age is really just postmodern Christianity. It venerates its own martyrdom so it makes perfect moral sense to sacrifice yourself to the bus gods. If that doesn’t work, throwing themselves under the bus, or laying in the street until the bus runs over them will work, too. They are not responsible for their injuries, YOU are. You are the insurance company which must pay when they hurt themselves. Psychologically speaking that is evidence of the damaged ego they claim they don’t have although all evidence suggests otherwise.
They ‘Know’ Everything.
Here’s a letter received I received from an outraged New Age Believe one recently. I had the temerity to criticize the ideas of her spiritual guru because they were irresponsible words. Not well thought out. Contradictory.
Notice how she knows all about me even as she admits she doesn’t. It starts.
I truly don’t get you..
( This is then followed by everything she gets about me)…
It seems you have a very cold heart and soul and need much more love and affection and possibly attention in your life so you can come from a place of love and not ego. And perhaps you would like to look up the meaning of the word Dogma and use it properly in your correspondence.
So here is a woman who self admittedly doesn’t get me (because I wasn’t thinking with my emotions!) yet proceeds to describe a great understanding of me. See how it’s all about emotions? Need! Love! Affection! It’s not about the idea I critiqued, its personal now, it’s all about me. She even states it ‘seems’ that way. Not that she has any evidence I’ve misplaced my soul…It just sorta seemed that way..sorta… enough to where she was moved to launch an emotionally driven diatribe against a total stranger. Doesn’t know me, never knew me. She sent me this message in such a manner so one cannot rebut it. Covertly, and privately. So no one gets to see what’s really lurking behind her love and light compassion mask.
Yet…here is an example of dogma, the dogma she claims I don’t understand. Prejudiced, rigid thinking with emotions, the emotional programming is running.
The New Age VD …it leaves its own evidence.
You are Angry! (or Cold)
There’s a moral transgression for you. Becoming angry seems to be a social crime these days, and confused with rage. Because New Age VD lacks emotional intelligence they can’t tell the difference between annoyance, anger, and rage. If you do not agree with them, you must be angry. If you do not get angry with them in return, you are cold. If you do get angry you’re a bully.
Attempting to emotionally manipulate someone until they get what they want. A lot of people get guilt -tripped into giving the New Age Believer what they want. A lot of people don’t want to be perceived as a bully especially in a society which is now all too quick to assign people the label of bully.
You are Angry Face! That is the only way they see people, as some walking bag of emotion which could serve as a potential source of self-gratification. They don’t see people, just a balloon full of emotion they want to burst.
Yes, having mentally stimulating conversation, ideas, solutions, brainstorming, constantly interrupted with victim whine is annoying . It’s annoying when our kids do it, it’s annoying when adults do it.
“You think you are so morally superior.”
I see little value in having mediocre morals. If you are going to have morals why not have superior ones? If we are not thinking with our emotions this tends to clarify our morality so it might be a bit better than others.
You’re mean!
The magical 3 year-old playground incantation. Fine for those of the age of 5 and under; its disconcerting to see it coming out of the adult mouth. Emotionally arrested, the VD tends to revert back to the expression the very young use when they don’t get their way.
Mean actually means ungenerous. This is true; you haven’t given the psychic vampire a free lunch.
I FEEL, or BELIEVE is the preface for all rebuttals.
Neither feeling nor belief equate ‘knowing.’ Knowing tends to lend confidence and authority. Yet, if you are confidentially assured 2 and 2 equal 4 ,the belief or feeling of the VD overrides that central fact of our life.
” I can’t understand what you are talking about so you must be wrong.”
Self explanatory. Or rather they ‘know’ everything just couched in different terms. I often cannot understand calculus equations so that rather makes me least qualified to judge a mathematician as ‘wrong.’
We can see here how this creates anti-social behavior. Division of people. You can’t share ideas without being accused of being an elitist snob or some psychological terrorist. It’s exhausting. There’s no tolerance. You cease to care about people or their opinions because they aren’t opinions, they are emotional reactions. Every where you go in life you have to play therapist even if you are like your child who is ill-equipped to do so. When everything is based on feelings, emotions, and safety there can be no progression, no risk taking, no big thinking. We can’t logically address economics, or employment, or really problematic social issues and concerns that don’t depend solely on emotions. We can’t do the right thing or say the right thing because someone will be mortally offended.
Real Victims of accident, disease and misfortune, the people who really need help, get lost in the cracks because all the band width is taken up with VD. They suffer most from this.
Thought Police. This is how self policing societies happen.
We can’t make a measured thoughtful decision without offending someone. Everything we do risks emotional death to New Age VD carriers. It’s wrong to be angry, it’s wrong not to be angry, and you’re brutal if you remain rational.
They’re all love and light until triggered and then, casting aside all love and light, they attack. They don’t believe their own belief system yet you HAVE to, or risk persecution.
But there is actual (real) light at the end of the tunnel.
We are talking about emotionally- arrested people. Like our young children they lack emotional intelligence and sophistication. They can’t respond, only react. They want you to be responsible for their feelings.
So go ahead give them what they want. On your terms…if they want to be managed its up to you decide how. They gave you the power and you have what they lack, the ability to use it wisely.
Manage them the same way you manage your children who are not emotionally equipped to make reasonable decisions. It doesn’t matter how old the New Age Believer is. In spite of their tantrums and outrage, you remain reasonable, rational, stick to the topic, do not let them make it personal, set boundaries, don’t cave in.
Yes, the more rational and responsive you become, the angrier they get. That’s their problem, their emotions. You are now managing their emotions and that’s what they asked for.
The buck has to stop somewhere. Someone has to show them the consequences of their behavior and you don’t have to do anything but don’t back down. They are entitled to their emotions, but they are not entitled to slander you with them. You are just as entitled to rational measured response as they are to their out-of-control emotions. Make them be responsible for what they say, call it out. Don’t let this hide anymore. They don’t want to look at the dark because of their negativity is found there.
Don’t feed the vampires.
If you do they will try to turn you into one of them. They feed and feed until we are exhausted, and then we, in turn, have to look for some energetic source to prop up again–we turn into them without knowing it. If we don’t feed this disease, or allow it to spread beyond our boundaries, it will have no place to hide or grow and will eventually die off.