Daily Archives: March 31, 2024

The Side Effects Of Religion, Recovery, Wellness, Exercise (3-31-24)

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Everything comes with side effects04:30 Does Mindfulness Meditation Work for ADHD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJBwdpSPmU23:00 The Emergence Of Conspirituality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15432224:00 Guardian: The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic25:00 Getting Too Good at the Wrong Thing, … Continue reading →

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The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

Harvard International Relations professor Stephen Walt writes in Foreign Policy Mar. 21, 2024: Biden’s critics assume that the United States has enormous leverage over this situation and that a firm word from the president—combined with threats to curtail or halt … Continue reading →

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The Emergence Of Conspirituality

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

Here’s an important paper from 2011 by Charlotte Ward & Prof. David Voas in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, 26:1, 103-121: The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its … Continue reading →

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