For many people, alternative therapies and wellness routines provide comfort and pleasure. For others, they can be a pathway to far-right conspiracies, says author and journalist James Ball
For many people, yoga can be beneficial for mind and body. Meditation can relieve stress. Crystal healing sessions seem to provide some intangible benefits. But for a small minority, wellness – and the gurus who practice it – have provided a gateway to a much darker way of seeing the world.
What begins with meditating in a room with your mates, can end in an unhealthy obsession with population control, fears of world government and other popular conspiracy theories.
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