The author is making reference to Lysenko(ism) as endorsed by Stalin.

This may have been bad science. However, I see no reason to think it has anything to do with New Age spirituality. It certainly can't be argued that Stalin was anti-technology or implemented "back to nature policies".

Sheldon Baker, Arizona City, U.S.A.

Most of the political figures in history that have adapted occultic philosophy have taken what was meant originally to be a universally positive philosophy for humanity and warped it for their own purposes.
Such as Hitler,with the swastika.He inverted it,so now it is evil.It has happened w/ JC 2.

RATI, Grants Pass,

oh blah..... I'm more than a bit sorry I even read this..... by the way, I'm only posting a comment to procrastinate instead of working on a paper.....

anne, Gettysburg,

This article is no whackier than some of these dingleberries who wish us to believe we were "seeded" onto this planet by little green men from Mars. Some of these responders who are reacting with anger remind me of these types. It is interesting how cheap life is to people like this.

Cecelia, Franklin, USa

I'm sorry I'm so late getting into the conversation... I was busy putting all my severed heads into my 100% natural cotton grocery bags that say "save the earth, kill more people."
What a load of back wash that article was.

Raven, Highlands Ranch, USA

This writer is in sad need of Introduction to Western Civilization, Psychology 101 and Remedial Logic.

Lynette, Richmond, usa

If you do a little more homework, you will have to note that the foundress of Planned Parenthood was a new-ager, and do not forget Madame Blavatsky whose advice was given to people like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many other pro-death people of that time that anyone who is not arian must die.

Pam, High Bridge, USA

You put together a list of mass murderers and then claim this has something to do with so called new age thought, which is an amazing jump of illogic.

What these mass murderers have in common besides being sociopathic is also being extreme egotists with delusions of grandeur.

Christopher Blackwell, Deming, NM, USA

I could subsitute names like teletubies and sesame street. Drop names like Howdy Doodie and the Lone Ranger and it would make as much sense as this article does.

Dennis, nazareth, USA

"If you believe in one quack idea, it's likely that you'll buy into others."

Like the incoherent nonsense in this diatribe...

Rose, Boston MA, USA

What was the basis for Mr. Toronyi-Lalic’s assertion that all New Age thought is the product of an unhinged mind? A smattering of comparisons to Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin. To quote my Grade 10 debate teacher “If you have to mention Hitler to make your point, you’ve already lost.”

Just pathetic.

Ruddeger Frutz, Toronto, Canada

The Inquisition, 100 years war, and the Crusades were all waged
by people who did not hold New Age beliefs. Christians do not have
a clean slate when it comes to mass murder. If anything, the Deists
and progressive Christians that founded the US gave the world a new
model of freedom.

Ann, Glenwood Springs,

Amen!!

Tim, Washington, D.C, USA

And the other side of the coin is the tendency of the green movement to attract wannabe dictators.

Jamie, Bolton, UK

Many psychologists believe that every human being holds a janus faced character ,and there lies a "Dr. Jackyl and Mr Hyde" in everyone's persona and trait. So what if Dr. karadzic leads a double life, as a medical healer and a Serbian leader, with genocidal history.Look beyond the sinner,with wisdom

sandy, New Delhi, India

The most dim-witted article I've read in a long time. It deserves no other comment.

sarah j, dartmouth, canada