Posted on 10/20/2017 8:50:31 PM PDT by Simon Green
When Coco Layne, a Brooklyn-based producer, meets someone new these days, the first question that comes up in conversation isn’t “Where do you live?” or “What do you do?” but “What’s your sign?”
Interest in spirituality has been booming in recent years while interest in religion plummets, especially among millennials. The majority of Americans now believe it is not necessary to believe in God to have good morals, a study from Pew Research Center released Wednesday found. The percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 29 who “never doubt existence of God” fell from 81% in 2007 to 67% in 2012.
Meanwhile, more than half of young adults in the U.S. believe astrology is a science. compared to less than 8% of the Chinese public. The psychic services industry — which includes astrology, aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry, among other metaphysical services — grew 2% between 2011 and 2016. It is now worth $2 billion annually, according to industry analysis firm IBIS World.
Melissa Jayne, owner of Brooklyn-based “metaphysical boutique” Catland, said she has seen a major uptick in interest in the occult in the past five years, especially among New Yorkers in their 20s. The store offers workshops like “Witchcraft 101,” “Astrology 101,” and a “Spirit Seance.”
“Whether it be spell-casting, tarot, astrology, meditation and trance, or herbalism, these traditions offer tangible ways for people to enact change in their lives,” she said. “For a generation that grew up in a world of big industry, environmental destruction, large and oppressive governments, and toxic social structures, all of which seem too big to change, this can be incredibly attractive.”
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[The Harry Potter books are entertaining]
That’s what people say about OWEGI BOARDS too.
I wasn’t a fan of the books but two of my four kids were and I was forced to read them because of that. Harmless. Parents should ban Ellen and other talk shows and technology before they ban books, lol.
And this is why we are losing the culture war.
It’s not just millennials. I have an acquaintance in the 60’s who was constantly telling me she was sending archangel Rafael or some other archangel to me (for healing or for help). Really believed I guess that she could command archangels. Odd.
Goes back farther. Remember the book SUN SIGNS, sold about 50 years ago? There were books on casting spells, every newspaper had a horoscope column. ROSMARY’S BABY and THE EXORCIST were the movies to watch.
Back in 1974, Jean Dixon, in STAR tabloid, predicted NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN! the very day he resigned.
Ten years later, when her horoscope column was to appear in our local newspaper stated she HAD predicted the resignation.
Everyone that I know who got involved with horoscopes did not end well.
Love Disney World :) It’s the happiest place on earth.
OMG I just can’t with these posts. Witches hats. Gasp.
So little kids with witches hats on their heads would make little kids become, what exactly? Witches? They don’t control anything, have no power, right?
LMAO and this is why our side isn’t taken seriously at all.
She was s scientist. The science of the con.
A little further back yet is the Old Testament.
Hey! Here I am! Don't I have the world and its knowledge at my finger tips? Yes, I do!
And gosh darn it! Here we are!
Be patient with the download ... I remember it like it was yesterday.
Umm..no as tempting as it is I think our problems run a bit deeper than one popular book series.
And apparently a big problem with the other extreme that doesn’t realize that entertainment, books that are entertaining and inspire imagination, aren’t reality either.
http://uwm.edu/libraries/exhibits/burnedbooks/
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Dabbling in the occult opens the door for demonic activity.
THE OCCULT—What does the Bible say about it?
https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-occult.html
Wonderful.
“You believe in God? You do well...the devils believe also, and tremble.”
This is an inevitable consequence of separating faith and reason ... or promoting religions like Islam that worship a god with a will but no intellect.
[a generation that grew up in a world of big industry, environmental destruction, large and oppressive governments, and toxic social structures]
Nope, no agenda there.
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I was in France last month, and stayed for 3 nights at Disneyland Paris. Lots of fun!
I've now visited almost every Disney park (Disneyland, Disney World, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo). The only one I haven't been to is Shanghai.
Even for a dedicated Disneyphile, I don't think I'd recommend making an overseas trip strictly to visit a Disney Park, with one exception: Tokyo. It's different enough from the others to be worth it. Any of them are worth visiting if you happen to be in the vicinity, though.
Not I: never read the first word of Harry and never will!
Had so much fun as a kid playing with the ouija board. We had fun but knew it was fake. Who didn’t?
Superstitious bullshit that anyone with half a brain realized. But it was fun.Entertainment. It’s like the new thing, Karma, lol, which is also fake. Or the evil eye, malook (malocchio), I have a solid gold (is there anything else for Italians?) horn on a chain and still have it today. It protected me from those giving me the “evil eye” lol. It was a fad back in my day in South Philly. It’s like voodoo dolls, they don’t really work, lol. Or chanting a spell woo woo. I’m just surprised anyone worries about that stuff. Let me go put the evil eye on someone, RME.
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