I have been involved in aspects of new age thought and general spirituality for quite some time. There is a very large aspect to it all that is cultish and pure kool-aid drinking for the useful idiot.
Many of these cult like aspects try to get a person to feel and commit to being apart of the whole or the group as if a commune. They try to use nature as a means to make everyone feel as if we are all apart of the whole and magically special to find ourselves.
Then they get them to get trance-like and to feel as if they are the ones to finally become one with nature again. They then start to fill the mush of their minds with poisonous thoughts. For some of these useful idiots you could probably get them to believe almost anything once you lead them to such a state.
Honestly it is a wonder that I never became a left-wing loon being that I have been involved with these types of things. Thank God for whatever commonsense it is that I have been blessed with.
Well......I was young and STUPID. Lesson learned. Stronger because of it, thank God! And able to recognize it when it comes knocking on the door..........especially for my kids.