 There's a video out there called the dark side of new age gurus and I think the channel was like James Janney or something like that and This video is completely wrong in many in many different respects, but I'm gonna just go through them kind of one by one and Debunk the video. I guess you could say now if you haven't seen the video Obviously, this won't make much sense to you. So if you if you haven't seen the video go and check it out I'll try and remember to put a link in the description here But the chances are you have seen it because this is a pretty big channel and you know, it's it was I think it was published in March of 2021 and He goes on to talk about various new age gurus and specifically the idea of new thought which I Assume he means is like new age. Now before I start this video. This is not intended to you know offend Or you know, annoy this this particular guy. I'm sure he's a lovely guy. Nothing against the guy It's just the things mentioned in the video. I'd like to offer my perspective Because I think there's a dangerous kind of precedent that is being set by some youtubers against the Ideas and concepts are starting to come to light now Specifically the idea that we create our own reality and that our thoughts our conscious thoughts and attention Have an impact on physical tangible reality. This is not science fiction anymore This isn't like this and I really want to make this clear before we begin This has been proven many times and the whole notion of like quantum mechanics And many other different respects have have proven this and demonstrated it time and time again This is not some kind of fairy tale make belief in order to sell some kind of dream or product Yes, people use it for that and I'll get into that in a second, but that doesn't mean the concept isn't real and This is very important because a lot of these debunking videos They kind of Suggest that that idea is not true and that you can't affect your reality with your thoughts Which is just fundamentally wrong in many ways you can and do affect your reality with your thoughts and in fact you've been doing it your whole life it's kind of It's a bit, you know mind-blowing to imagine otherwise so the video starts by talking about how The new age gurus I guess make money from selling you the idea that your thoughts create things your thoughts conscious attention can manifest and into things and either attract things you want or Give you less of what you don't want and he suggests in this video that that's a ridiculous idea That's not the case. I mean you and you can demonstrate this yourself if you just go 30 days and Intend to only think positive thoughts only focus on what you want and not think about what you don't want Just your subjective reality will confirm that that is that is the case that that happens for you and This is such an easy thing to demonstrate anyone can do this and It's very hard to you know To argue against that the law of attraction and manifestation You can call it what you like with a fundamental concept that you can create and You know draw certain experiences and things to you through your conscious thoughts is completely undisputed How else do you and does anything happen? You know if you let's say at a fundamental basic level, right? Let's say You decide to go to the gym Okay, so how so obviously you could say well I walked to the gym So my walking made it happen. No because before you just before you walked to the gym You must have had the thought I'm going to go to the gym then from the thought comes the intention I intend to go now From the intention comes the action the walking and then from the walking comes the result you arriving at the gym This is like such a fundamental concept To suggest that this isn't the case is just absolutely hilarious to me because We all experience this every day of our lives now where it gets a bit more debatable is How much of an impact your thoughts have on stuff outside of your control because you might say well, you know Obviously we can decide to walk to the gym, but we can't Use our thoughts to then manifest money coming towards us or you know our perfect partner or dream job or whatever it is and Yes, you're right. That's where things get a bit more debatable because the things the the chain of events The chain of events that happen takes a bit longer not a lot longer, but it takes time, you know, obviously so So we first go back to the basics, which is that our thoughts carry electromagnetic energy. This has been demonstrated many times It's been studied scanned analyzed You know, we even use this in most modern medicine medicine today where we scan people's brainwaves And you can see an electromagnetic analysis of the brainwaves when you think certain thoughts a certain electrical circuit gets activated in the brain So that's you know, that's that's the consensus at the moment at least The next step of that is where you mix into things like quantum entanglement And specifically quantum mechanics when you think about something Particles that seem to be separate are not separate at all. In fact, there is no separation The idea that anything is separate from anything else is a complete fiction. It doesn't exist It can't be proved. It's never been proved and If you zoom in far enough at the quantum level part all particles are connected. There is no separation between anything, right? So taking that one step further It seems pretty believable pretty likely that your thoughts we know they were electro magnetic Netic energy with they have a measurable electron electromagnetic effect And we know that other you know particles are kind of Connected in many ways quantum entanglement shows us that two particles can be connected Regardless of distance and if you do something to one particle it affects the other particle and vice versa This happens regardless of how far away they are using that as like the basis the foundation It seems pretty likely and obvious that your thoughts your intention can affect other things particles people experiences reality But this is not just some kind of science fiction idea, you know, this has been known for thousands of years and This is another point I want to get on to about the video the dark the dark world of new age gurus now at a certain point in the video he talks about Specific people or characters one of them being Napoleon Hill, but that's not the only one He focuses in on specific people within the personal development world within the new age movement and Looks into their past and he's basically dug up some things on specific people that make them look not so good They can't it casts them in a bad light. Okay, you know a couple of players have been like scammers a couple of them have used New age concepts to just earn money purely earn money And a few of them have actually been involved in so yeah like scams and various other things like that Okay, now you've got to remember the new age and personal growth is an enormous enormous topic There are millions of books Probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of authors. Okay, there are it affect the the reach of this Community and topic. Okay. It's absolutely enormous. It's if not the biggest niche. It's certainly one of the top three and Within that, you know, like any other topic any niche any community or you know group of ideas you are going to have specific characters that Aren't so good that scam people that teach the wrong things or that use the topic for their own Dark agendas or purposes, right? It happens all the time Does that mean that the concept in that in that topic are false? Absolutely not and I'll give you a very simple example of that. Let's say if you have a Thousand fitness instructors and they're all teaching people how to deadlift. Okay, deadlift is an exercise You lift the bar off the ground. Keep your back straight. Whatever. Right. They these thousand fitness instructors They all teach people how to deadlift If one of those fitness instructors turns out to be a scammer Does that mean that the idea of a deadlift is suddenly false and dangerous? Absolutely not, you know, the what one specific person or even a few people within a market do Doesn't disprove the whole market. It doesn't mean that suddenly deadlifting is nonsense But that is exactly what this video is is suggesting It's suggesting that because there are a few people within the new age movement who have been found out to be scammers That suddenly means the concepts. They're teaching are Disproven which is just absolutely not the case and to think that is such a flawed line of thinking You know, it's just laughable Especially when you use the deadlifting example I just gave you what you really have to consider is not the people teaching this stuff because that's completely irrelevant Their background their personality, you know, they're Their history and their Intentions are completely irrelevant if what they're teaching is true and useful The concepts they're actually talking about the idea that thoughts create things the idea that through positive intention and mindset You can change your life The personality of these people is irrelevant. What they're teaching is, you know, the only important thing now Of course, it's nicer when they're not scammers. It's nicer when they're, you know, likable But that doesn't mean what they're teaching is wrong and I just want to make that very clear another interesting thing that comes up in this video is He's he's trying to and I see why you've done this I was James. I see why he's done this James because you wanted to make an interesting video your Channel essentially is about Exposed documentaries where you kind of reveal a hidden side to things that people might not know about so I understand completely Why you've done this but just for those of you who have watched this video and who actually are starting to believe what you're saying You're I need to make a few things very clear the first one New age although it's called new age and new thought is not new at all the idea that and I'm going to kind of summarize here Right, but the idea that our thoughts conscious attention and Beliefs affect our physical body and our physical reality. That is not a new idea That's been around for more than 5,000 years and this has been documented It's so extensively throughout history that to suggest that it's new is Is ridiculous? quite frankly this has been known throughout history and if you look at even a small handful of ancient civilizations, you know of seers wise men sages Really any sufficiently advanced civilization or even you know tribes shamans and tribal communities they all knew This concept was true the idea that our thoughts and intention At the very least right at the very least affects our reality and At the very most indeed it can change almost everything about your reality however The society we're in and the programming where I can talk for hours about this, but I won't okay the society we're in heavily focuses on Trying to convince you that your thoughts don't create your reality and actually you're a victim of something you're oh, it's the government's fault It's society or the economy, you know, it's your Background is your education They're always trying to say it's something else Something else is the reason why you're in the current situation that you're in it's not your fault. It's something out there and This is an incredibly dangerous thought a very dangerous idea because the truth is that every one of us is in Charge Responsible for king or queen over their individual reality It's all you it always has been so the idea that it's something else out there Someone someone else's fault right the economy. It's the education you have that's not true and If you believe that then of course the world must seem absolutely chaotic it must seem like You have no control over anything things are just going wrong the world's crumbling down you you know you're struggling because Something in the economy isn't quite right, but the truth is in any situation and I'll use the economy as an example in any situation You will have people who have the victim mindset They think something's happening to them and they're just like the unlucky recipients of this You know unfortunate situation and then you have the people who understand the truth Which is that they actually create their own reality? Everything they're experiencing they've attracted everything. They're feeling they've caused With a few exceptions now these these are two very different perspectives on reality One of them makes you feel helpless and sad and depressed and fearful The other one makes you feel empowered confident happy and grateful So to suggest that You know, we should only do the first one right the one where we're like the victim That's a very irresponsible thing for a big channel to suggest and for anyone watching you are in control of your reality you You do have that power And you know, like I said, it begins with your thoughts your intention everything begins with your thoughts Anyway, so then he starts talking about It's almost as if he's like tried to collect as much dirt on the put on the new age movement as possible And of course if you look hard enough, you will find it in any topic any area of life So he starts talking about like this specific. I've forgotten the name of it now the specific event. It was some kind of new age Like conference or something and there was like a like a steam sauna like a hot hot sauna And a couple of people died in the sauna, okay, which is obviously very tragic it happens a person, you know a there is a statistic somewhere For how many people every year die in saunas it happens is very unlucky But it happened at this this new age conference and he somehow suggests that because that that unfortunate event happened That it discredits the person organizing it The ideas they're teaching and the entire concept topic and market around What he's talking about? Because these two people died in a sauna accidentally The the connections and mental gymnastics that this guy is doing is is nothing short of astonishing Anyway, so I guess this kind of applies to not just to this guy's video, but to any any video really any YouTube YouTuber any, you know online Influencer who is kind of trying to debunk or discredit the new age movement you've got to understand It's not firstly. It's not a new movement and secondly You can't disprove it because it's a fundamental truth a fun a provable fundamental you know Basis of reality that we can all prove and experience ourselves Without the need for any scientific study without the need for any, you know Lab or meta-analysis or anything else you can prove it yourself, you know just start now 30 days Pick a goal focus on something really specific Only think positive thoughts if you find yourself thinking a negative thought revert back to the positive thought and You'll find that I mean I could go on okay the connection between our thoughts and our body is such a Fundamental strong connection that it's been widely documented an interesting book I would recommend you read is the holographic universe and in this book they talk about studies and and accounts and Times right times where people have used their mind To change their body physical healing And I'm not just talking about oh, I thought I would get better so I got better and you could say well You would have got better anyway. No, I'm talking about things like You had a doctor's give a diagnosis the doctor gives a diagnosis you're gonna die in two years the person decides No, I'm not gonna die in two years And of course thoughts become things the belief becomes a subconscious belief and then that affects your your body everything It's all connected and this is not just a couple of times This is like across the world throughout history if you you know if you think something and believe something It will become true for you. You'll make it true and This has been the case many times a good example is if yours if you're sick or ill You should never say I am sick You should always say I am healing or I am healthy because your thoughts and beliefs and what you say out loud Especially will become true if you say oh, I just can't seem to get rid of this illness Your body and mind and subconscious will all align to make what you just said true on the other hand If you say I'm healing You will heal. It's quite quite literally as simple as that anyway Yeah, I didn't intend for this to come off, you know as if I you know have something against this guy I absolutely don't don't have anything against him His videos are actually quite interesting. I've watched a couple more of them about other topics But just with a new age movement in particular and with I guess he's kind of he was kind of attacking spirituality And it was more about he was attacking a concept or an idea The idea that you create things with your thoughts is absolutely true if it wasn't true You would you would know it, you know, you would be able to prove that but here's the kicker right? Here's the really interesting part Like I said if you think something Strongly enough it will become a belief. It will become reality That same thing applies to if you don't think your thoughts create reality. I Hope you're with me on this So if you are watching this video and you and you strongly believe and you say to yourself no Steph That's nonsense. My thoughts don't create my reality What will happen for you not anyone else but for you specifically is you will experience that as true Which kind of proves it in the first place? Because like I said what you believe will become reality So if you if you tell yourself, oh my thoughts don't create reality That's all you'll experience if you tell yourself you let your thoughts do create reality then again, that's what you'll experience and You can test it out. So a good example if you're skeptical or if you don't believe this is to really Kind of trick yourself really just force yourself to believe it just for a short period of time just for a couple of weeks or so and You'll see what happens. You'll see the results. Anyway, I could go on for longer, but I think it's been Yeah, it's been about 20 minutes now That's my debunking and my thoughts on the dark world of New Age gurus by James Janney let me know what you think and Hopefully this has been useful in some way if you see videos like this in the future by the way Try and comment and just say hold on a minute, you know, that's not quite right You can't just discredit an entire idea because of one person who said it You know, you need to look at the actual concept and not the specifics of who said it because then it's just gossip It's just hearsay. There's no substance behind what you're saying, you know, and again, it's the same with me It doesn't matter How I look what the background of my video is Already anything even my anything that happened in my history or anything that will happen in my future What matters is the concepts that I'm talking about. Are they true or are they not true? That's all that matters and Yeah, so hopefully that's been helpful and I'll see you next time