.@HayleyPhelan’s disturbing story of yet another psychopath guru is the latest entry in the conspirituality girl-boss fraud files.
I hope it helps a generation of white middle-class women enchanted by wellness & pyramid cults like Shambala, Bikram, Kundalini, & NXIVM to exit, regroup, & get real educations.
When this group because “disillusioned” with traditional religion, they evidently became re-illusioned — almost immediately.
“Reillusioned” might be a religious category in itself.
With that surprising phrase — “Our differences are precious and our similarities infinite” — @DrBiden smuggles a promising new political hypothesis into stock holiday wishes.
Dammit, this is interesting. Where I was sure “education” in Va campaign was only code for racist panic it really seems these women were chiefly concerned abt “learning loss”—among kids in special ed, notably—a legit concern McAuliffe shd’ve picked up on. cnn.com/videos/politic…
I have no doubt the CRT panic worked on single-issue segregation voters, but when Obama said discussion of education was JUST phony culture war, he missed a chance to at least recognize the enormous exertion of women who homeschooled in the pandemic.
It’s notable that these centrists are basically balking at the entrepreneurism required of them & their children for the last 20 months, and demanding better social services — public schools, tutoring, etc. Biden should be able to address these anxieties w BBB, New Deal thinking.
The thriving, rambunctious lithosphere means that even humans will survive in our component parts: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon. Whatever happens to the biosphere, our afterlife will be in the elements.
Heaven turns out to be down there, in the crust and mantle, rocks and lava and sloshing iron.