The section before this was about the history of Yoga, and I feel the author just had a fucking seizure while watching Fox News, before continuing to write the book.
It's fairly common for people into chakras and crystals to also have a bunch of reactionary brain worms. My friends ex is a vegan whose really into yoga and organic food, also thinks the Holocaust was a hoax because she watched some YouTube videos on how there was exercise equipment at Auschwitz and most of the people died of cholera or something.
Every hippy crystal/astrology person in Tinder is a coin flip between fairly normal person who just happens to be into it and anti-vax, libertarian, white supremacist psycho.
Which is nuts to me, 10 - 20 years 95% of those people were very left wing, or at least primitivist. Basically you can track what happened to JP Spears and see that writ large across western culture.
Which is nuts to me, 10 - 20 years 95% of those people were very left wing
I'm not sure that's entirely true. There were reactionary spiritualists as far back as the 60s. I think that Yogi the Beatles were into became a sex pest AnCap.
I had people who sent me that guys videos all the time several years back and there was definitely a point where his views starting seeping into what was supposedly tongue in cheek stuff. Dude also gets fucking acupuncture for his dog.
Yeah she basically has "So open minded it could fall out" syndrome. When they were still together I told my friend he needed to consider putting a parental lock on Youtube because the conspiracy videos were absolutely melting her brain.