Love, Light, and Lies: Getting in Touch with Your Anti-American Spirituality

by Charles Winecoff

Here’s a creepy thought: Dennis Kucinich and I have something in common.  We’ve both seen a UFO.  I saw mine in New York City in 1989, hovering over a crowded avenue on a warm spring night, as big, bright and still as the full moon.  I wasn’t drunk, and I wasn’t alone (there were hundreds of other gawkers).  After giving us all a good look, the object glided across town, towards the East River, and disappeared behind some skyscrapers.  I’ll never forget it.  The end.

The point: I’m a believer.  Psychics are in my family too.  But that doesn’t prevent me from having a built in bullshit detector – one that’s been working overtime.

Sometime last fall, I began hearing fickle ex-Hillary supporters wax ecstatic about the “paradigm shift” we were all going to experience if Barack Obama came down from heaven and moved into the White House.  I wasn’t exactly sure what a “paradigm shift” was (clearly I was supposed to know).  But this strange talk reminded me of Michael Tolkin’s apocalyptic movie, “The Rapture” (1991), in which ordinary office drones whisper at the water cooler about “the pearl” (their code word for the second coming).

I later ran across a YouTube clip of Hollywood’s favorite New Age nut, Shirley MacLaine, telling Larry King that we were all suffering from “paradigm blindness.”  Assuming she didn’t mean the talent agency, King asked her what “paradigm” was.  “Paradigm meaning a whole shift in consciousness,” MacLaine explained.  Sort of. (more…)

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Posted May 27th 2009 at 5:02 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 68 Comments