New Age Malarky: When Spirituality Becomes Another Cage

## New Age Malarky: When Spirituality Becomes Another Cage The New Age movement promised liberation. What it delivered, for many, was a prettier cage. Same bars. Better incense.

You traded one set of rules for another.

Instead of "thou shalt not," it's "you must raise your vibration." Instead of hell, it's "low frequency." Instead of sin, it's "shadow." The vocabulary changed. The control didn't.

### The Pretty Prison Crystal collections that cost more than therapy. Manifestation journals that are really just anxiety dressed in glitter.