by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | education, Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills, The Real New Age
Victim-blaming and shaming is rife in New Age circles. In this post, I will outline three of the most popular New Age mantras (robotically repeated statements) that do this to victims whilst simultaneously ignoring, or minimizing the actions of perpetrators....
by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy
Anything worthwhile is going to cost you something – usually more than one thing (e.g. money, time, energy, emotional turmoil, and so on). When delving deep into something painful, the pain itself is the heftiest price that needs to be paid. The price is commensurate...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Feb 20, 2020 | education, philosophy
Some people label me as too “preachy” when I firmly state my convictions. Others praise me by emphatically exclaiming, “Preach it!”, “Preach!”, or “Amen!” after I express myself in such a manner. Let’s take a closer look at the word “preachy”. Preachy...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 30, 2020 | philosophy, The Real New Age
There are many different types of moral relativism (all of them absurd). I will focus my discussion on one type in this post – moral subjectivism – because this is rampant both inside and outside of New Ageism: the belief that morality is determined by...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 30, 2020 | education, Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills, The Real New Age
Karma is the Eastern term for the spiritual law that may also be referred to as Cosmic Justice, God’s Justice, or Natural Law. True Law is inextricably linked to Morality and neither have anything to do with (hu)man-made laws, or ‘morals’ that change with the...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 13, 2020 | education, philosophy, The Real Bible, The Real New Age
Apocalypse (Αποκάλυψη): Greek for “Revelation”. Revelation (noun) (Merriam-Webster 1828) 1a: an act of revealing or communicating divine truth b: something that is revealed by God to humans 2a: an act of revealing to view or making known b: something that...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 13, 2020 | philosophy, The Real New Age
Many people have heard the term “Alpha Male” – it was originally used to describe the leading, or dominant role of a male social animal (e.g. gorillas). There are also Alpha Females in some of these groups. Sometimes there are both Male and Female...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 4, 2020 | education, philosophy
Recently, I happened to be channel surfing looking for something interesting to watch. I came across a segment from some show/movie where a man lamented about the issue he had with stealing, cheating etc., as this would get him into trouble. He resolved this problem...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Dec 3, 2019 | education, philosophy, The Real New Age
This blog post is not my first foray into expressing unpopular assertions about the ego (most of my assertions are unpopular but I will continue to express them, regardless). I have written an article that focuses on the need for it in the physical world (you may read...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Nov 13, 2019 | education, philosophy, self-help skills, The Real New Age
The ex-vegans who are now, and have been for some time, coming forward with their stories of sickness and close encounters with death, have inspired me to write this article. They are proof that veganism is not sustainable but they were duped into it, anyway. If not...
