Do you guys actually believe this stuff?

[Parsons]

Now I understand. You have a problem with the people who have this experience ...

It's not that I have a problem with people choosing their own beliefs, that's why I chuckled when I saw Parsons post, it's that I have a problem with beliefs that are conducive to mental illness. Mental illness is not something that is just always inherent in the individual, I have seen many, many otherwise perfectly functional people adopt new age beliefs and become more and more dissociated and eventually get committed to wards. The argument that they were going to become dissociated anyways regardless of beliefs is naive.

I would strongly disagree with your last statement. People often get cart and horse confused. You seriously can't picture someone who is developing mental illness on their own being attracted to 'new age' beliefs? You are saying that believing new age beliefs causes mental illness? Lol...

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Reductio ad Hitlerum

Yes yes, I am aware that is unforgivably cliche.

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By the way, are you an ISTJ, INTJ, or ESTJ? I'm shooting in the dark a bit here but I'm guessing you are a professional in the field of psychology?