I agree strongly with Mack/Misophist. As Carl Sagan commented, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof'. So much New Age stuff is simply anecdotal - 'I know someone who had 28 cancer patients recover after they were sprinkled with water from a holy Celtic well' - that kind of thing, which one always seems to encounter at parties. If one gives a snort of disbelief then immediately one is labelled as narrow-minded, arrogant or even racist (if the anecdote involved the alleged remarkable powers of some non-white group). I am sick and tired of it, and find the scepticism I am reading here a breath of fresh air.