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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They are still “religions”. They are ditching Judeo-Christian teachings for paganism, Satanism, alien SF tales, Afro-SF, and more.
Astrology is for idiots.
For Astrology to work all the stars would have to be equidistance from the Earth and the constellations could never change. Neither of those things is true.
Witchcraft doesn’t care how immoral you are.
It’s a perfunctory article. I see little talk about the parents of this crop of youth.
What is the Zeitgeist of this era? Find that and you’ll find the answer.
BS.It has no meaning unless it’s given meaning. Fortunately, most people don’t give it any meaning and if they do, they’re touched in the head, aka nuts.
I watched some of the movies and was horrified by the blatant dark magick in the them.
I pitied the parents whose kids *had* to be part of this evil, lest they be “uncool”.
Rowling has mach to answer for.
Tell that to my friend whose mother was into it. The OUIJA board would call her out as she hid in a closet.
Friends in college conjured up a demon when they were playing it in their dorm room. When a person contacts a demonic force for fun is not child's play. Perhaps that why you are PRO-OCCULT.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
CHAPTER ONE
THE BOY WHO LIVED
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
This is nothing new. The 60’s generation was doing the exact same thing. What do they have in common? Marijuana.
Some time ago, my grandson was watching a spoof of Harry Potter on his all encompassing Ipad, which I happened to be privileged to witness by chance, on this particular occasion, and it had HP and his pals raiding the bedroom of Snape. They found his diary, which they noted "was just lying there in a locked box under his bed" ... and proceeded reading it, the text of which I don't recall, as provocative as it might have been, and then they made a new entry, which I don't recall at all, but it was juvenile in nature.
So there sits my grandson, age 6, taking it all in. He absorbs all this like a sponge. Recently I had occasion to ask him about it, and HE had to remind ME that it was HP doing the snooping, which I didn't exactly recall.
O Brave New World!
They are also the first generation to have every lie ever told at its fingertips.
And they also have every bit of disinformation conceivable ready to indoctrinate them in to every form of extremism conceivable. From Islam to Communism.
Leave your kid alone with a computer that has access to the internet for 20 minutes and when you come back your kid may be ready to go jihad on you’re a$$.
People who don’t stand for something will fall for anything. With no morals, no moral absolutes, no traditions, no heritage, no history (thanks to the miseducation they’ve been steeped in by liberal fools) - the spiritually starving millennials are primed for turning to the occult.
You’re right it runs much deeper than that.
The real problem is that many (maybe most) of the kids reading those books have no religious training what so ever.
So, these kids end up being introduced to spiritualism, witchcraft and other pagan religious thought through those books.
The possibility of a positive outcome from this scenario is less than ideal.
Only been to WDW (7 times now from 1981). It’s a fun place.
I have no desire to go to any other Disney Park but would love to visit other places in Europe and Asia. I probably never will but wish I could.
My husband and I went to WDW this past May and it was so much fun, just the two of us. Stayed at the Contemporary and enjoyed the hotel and flower and garden festival in EPCOT with the food and drink kiosks. And MK. We were there for a wedding in July 2016 as a family and had a blast.
I’d go back :)
Ah yes, the iPhag smartphone generation. Who need experience, just look it up........
LMAO! Yes, yes I am, lol. RME.
Maybe the mother was nuts? Insane, bipolar or whatever the newest trend in mental illness is. A game board called her out as she hid in a closet? Yeah, there’s something wrong with her. It’s just a game board that means nothing to anyone not mentally ill.Yet she hid in a closet to what? Protect herself from a game board?
Friends in college? College students are this stupid to believe they can call “demons?” And we wonder why so many of our population are nuts.
Yeah, perhaps that’s why I’m normal.
As all the posters sit while posting on their computers or ipads or smartphones posting on an internet forum clutching their pearls. The irony.
[LMAO! Yes, yes I am, lol. RME. Yeah, perhaps that’s why I’m normal.]
You won’t be laughing when you stand before the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
True story
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Meditation isn’t exactly “the occult”.
Not defending her -- but it does no good for us to lie about the matter, either.
I think not.
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