Often true but not always or necessarily.

It therefore offers individual solutions to collective problems — often in commodified form — and leaves the very structures responsible for those problems unchallenged. As a crude example, someone who subscribes to this worldview might think that the best way of dealing with climate change is for everyone to do psychedelics and feel at one with nature, as opposed to say, joining the campaign for a Green New Deal or organising against fossil fuel companies.² While the former could instigate the latter, the New Age isn’t particularly interested in how its spiritual practices can have real, material effects in the world. Attend to the self, and the rest will magically fall into place.

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Jules Evans

Feb 7, 2021

Often true but not always or necessarily. so ..Some New Age thinkers offered collective solutions to problems - such as eugenics for example. If everyone took psychedelics, that would also be a collective solution. The New Age very much IS interested in how spiritual practices can have real material effects in the world - thats what the Law of Attraction is all about. You could say the New Age often relies on magical solutions which are not very effective in terms of dealing with complexity.