Fake Spirituality Examples Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

10 minutes ago, RendHeaven said:

come on bro I was trying to gas you up for NOT having sex with your students

but now you're like "actually, having sex with your students is situationally optimal! lets be objective!" 

classic leo 

Obviously it's a very thorny issue that I do not take casually. But there are certain realities to how socialization works.

Edited July 20 by Leo Gura

[RendHeaven]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

But there are certain realities.

I appreciate you for always pointing these out

[Leo Gura]

In practice you will find that many spiritual teachers end up dating people who found them through their work rather than picking up a random girl at a cafe or bar.

[Carl-Richard]

Most "New Age BS" haven't been categorically proven to be untrue. You just assume based on some preconceived (and often not well thought through) notion that it's highly unlikely. But if anything, thinking you can turn yourself into an alien live on camera (and your followers being like "oh really? Tell me more!") 😜🤫 

Edited July 20 by Carl-Richard

[TimStr]

Oh boy, this is going to be a hell of a thread!! 

There is just so much fakeness and bullshitting that happens, when westerners get into spirituality without being serious. I've collected lots of examples over the last year:

Commercial spiritual transformation festivals:

Trustafarians and voluntourism:

 

Edited July 20 by TimStr

[TimStr]

Probably the fakest "spiritual" person on the internet: Shanin Blake

 

[TimStr]

[TimStr]

I am genuinely happy that we are talking about this topic!

I see, that this kind of fakeness is doing serious harm! 

Not only posing a trap for ones personal spiritual developement but also hurting the image of spirituality at large, turning spirituality into a weird kind of hippy cosplay!

Performative authenticity. 

Letting those words sink in makes it clear, that there are some deeper epistemic issues at work here. Poststructuralist philosopher Jean Baudrillard called this the transition from the real to the hyperreal.
 

 

[Soullee]

What about light language ?

 

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

thinking you can turn yourself into an alien live on camera

Hey, it takes time. Be patient.

[Aaron p]

6 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

 

Skip to exactly 19:14 LOL

Edited July 20 by Aaron p

[Aaron p]

This thread is ingenious and gold

[Husseinisdoingfine]

One of the most funny things Vaush has produced.

 

[RendHeaven]

12 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

One of the most funny things Vaush has produced.

 

not the extra credits guy 😭😭

also THOTH!?

[TimStr]

This is probably one of the most sinister people on earth:

João Teixeira de Faria, also called "John of God", claims to be a spiritual medium and psychic surgeon.

He promises to heal peoples psychological or physiological illnesses by "operating" on their body despite having no medical training. Common procedures include inflicting cuts, inserting hemostats into peoples noses or scraping their eyes with blunt knives usually done without any kind of anesthesia or sanitation. He targets people with terminal illness and exploits their hopelessness.

Edit: Trigger warning, some of those videos contain imagery of those operations that are quite shocking to watch.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 20 by TimStr
Trigger warning

[UnbornTao]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Hey, it takes time. Be patient.

I don't think it does.

[Carl-Richard]

Let's not forget that "fake spirituality" in this case does not equal to "untrue factual claims". That's an easy but mistaken implication here. I challenge anyone to actually disprove the factual claims of "New Age BS". And if not disprove, explain exactly why they're unlikely hypotheses.

[Wilhelm44]

So everything that seems too woo is fake ? Thats also a bias to look out for. Sure there's a lot of flaky stuff. But there actually are people with healing abilities etc. And how can there not be aliens etc.

 

 

 

[r0ckyreed]

Would David Lion or Bashar be considered fake spirituality? 

[Ash55]

Russell brand Comes to my mind


This girl lol

 

Edited July 20 by Ash55