From the book "I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional" by Wendy kaminer.

"New Age is aggressively anti-intellectual, proudly nonrational. It's not supposed to make sense.

"Think about what the fascination with addiction means to us as a culture. Think about the political implications of advising people to surrender their will and submit to a higher power."
Hannah Arendt: "The Mass Man organized by the Nazis and merged into the state was the man who would sacrifice everything - belief, honor, dignity to maintain his own security. Nothing proved easier to destroy than the privacy and private morality of people who thought of nothing but safeguarding their private lives."