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When Positive Thinking is Used to Shame Illness

BY KAI ELLIOT If you would’ve told me, ten years ago, that I would have my own website and I’d be writing about Illness Positivity(tm) for the spiritual field – I would have thought you were nuts! When I took my first yoga class, eighteen years ago, I would’ve told you you were nuts –…

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In Defense of the “Woo-Peddlers”

By Mitch Horowitz   Why is the term “self-help” so often used in a derogatory manner in mainstream media? Writing in the opinion journal Aeon, journalist and social critic Elizabeth Svoboda recently sized up today’s self-help field and concluded that some cognitively based self-help books are effective – and well worth defending – whereas New…

Is New Thought Turning Gray?

By Mitch Horowitz Science of Mind magazine columnist and ministerial student Masando Hiraoka recently lamented on this blog the paucity of “Millennials” within Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL) churches and communities. The fact is, many metaphysical congregations and organizations on the alternative spiritual scene are experiencing an aging membership base. I recently delivered the keynote address…