Weird, I actually bought a Gaiam branded yoga ball that came with a DVD to throw in a little yoga before I get into my real workout, weights. Maybe the company was trying to expand to the non-crazy market, but apart from stereotypical "new age" music, the DVD was a pretty ordinary workout video. There wasn't any philosophy or spiritualism.
dutch translation: Grab your elbows, place your arms on the backrest, let your forehead rest on your arms, your back has to be parallel with the ground..
I just woke up...suddenwise, was thinking of the term "fan-fiction". Doris Ione Smith comes thru again! When she comes thru...you better listen....i better listen too!
Jesus fucking christ...gaia.... Metaphysics fan-fiction and Biblical fan-fiction. I cant tell the difference sometimes. hey NordicWolf7. If someone dosent know the true story, lets just make up a fake story to fill in the gaps. Doris calls it the "Hollywood Syndrome". Fukin A....you crossed the eithers dude. This must have been and important question for U?
As a 12 year old I had a TEACHER in my school tell me that with the power of positive thinking I could cure my Cystic Fibrosis. For those that don't know, CF is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation of (most commonly) the F501 Delta gene. This mutation is present in every single cell of my body (I'm simplifying like crazy rn). This woman, an authority figure, told a CHILD that they could cure their fatal disease... by *wishing it away*. To say my mom was angry is an understatement, but obviously 30 something years later, I still remember the damage this did to me. COULD it work? Should I try it? Could it save my life? HOW could it work?! The closest I've gotten from a medical professional saying "positive thinking would help" was the clinic therapist mentioning that by centering myself, doing hobbies I enjoy, and cultivating a safe and positive environment, I was avoiding depressive episodes which helped in maintaining my medication and healthcare routines necessary to LIVE. If the placebo effect helps you, that's wonderful, but to push to *actually medically ill patients* that they do not need or can will away medical help.... it's at best disgusting, and at worst dangerously negligent.
While I don’t think that positive thinking can cure any illness I do think it can a person *feel* better but they should still go to the doctor to check you up. Remember, feeling good doesn’t prove that you aren’t sick Many many people have parasites and they feel fine. Stay safe.
I think your teacher told you the wrong thing for sure. I wonder if she really believed that you or anyone else could simply wish or pray away a genetic disease/defect? I wonder how you are doing and I sure hope your CF symptoms are not getting the best of you! Godspeed ❤
The most unbelievable thing about this Gaia thing is that they have messed up the basics of Yoga, i.e it comes from India and has its origins in Hinduism instead of Buddhism, a difference of almost a millennia.
Just as a correction because this is a common incorrect myth that is spread, but yoga predates Hinduism. In fact, yoga predates all religions and did not come from any of them. For some reason the followers of Hinduism love to lie about this fact, probably because Hinduism was a religion started around the culture of yoga. To make it clear I have no problem with Hinduism or anyone who believes it, however yoga is not a religion and never has been and it is extremely harmful for people to claim that it is.
@@Jesse-ge4lv "Religion" is a western term, and if I recall correctly the Hindu term for Hinduism translates to Eternal Tradition, and since Yoga is a tradition that Hindu people practiced, it is a part of Hinduism.
@@dakrontu yeah god, there are so many math/science historical figures that were so on the ball but just had no way of moving much past theory and hand calculations. And yet they're still legends. When I grow up I wanna be like them lol
Based on their new age, dualistic or idealistic beliefs: skeptical people are caught in a behavioral pattern of neglect & harm towards themselves. Cribbing off of Buddhism and related belief systems like the thieves they are, they position themselves as honorable and trustworthy guides when they actually perpetuate the suffering and attachment they claim to fight against.
I know we're just joking here... but there won't be one, because they wouldn't have anything to say (or at least anything of substance). The usual response of grifters and pseudo-gurus is to just pretend the critics don't exist, and hope their followers don't notice it either.
@@realleon2328 I love cooking shows. As someone with (some mental illness that makes it impossible to focus) they really hold my attention and aren't too stressful or complicated
Fucking hell, that must have been rough. Im psychotic too and I know this would fuck me over badly if I’m the wrong spot, hope you’re still doing good 11 months on.
"Reality is weird enough on its own you don't need to start writing fan fiction about it" That might be the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life thank you
Oh wow, I love that. My personal outlook is that a lot of spirituality is the art and culture of humans in practice, not a science. It's the idea that they decided to take observations and tell stories of expression and creativity about them. And it's all well and good until its taught as fact without proof and used to harm people.
The best book I’ve ever read on chemotherapy is called The Great Secret, and it tells the story of how a horrible but classified disaster in Italy in WWII involving chemical weapons gave rise to the discovery that leukemia *could* actually be treated. It does a really good job of conveying the sort of heady wonder and joy in the medical field as chemotherapy actually began to make significant inroads in giving extra years to, and eventually curing, people who would have died very quickly.
Yeah, chemotherapy is a brutal treatment that works because cancer cells are far more aggressive about growth than all but a few healthy cells. What a lot of people don't realize is that killing cancer cells is easy, the challenge is doing it in a way that doesn't kill healthy cells too.
A few extra years sometimes ain’t worth the pain though. I’ve seen a lot of people go thru it. Only a few were “cured” and it was never for longer than 5 years.
@@Rabavilas Well that's the problem innit? It doesn't sound stupid, it is stupid, and it isn't in a game, it's a real thing, that real people buy into. Which is kinda what Stellvia was saying.
"...starting with our chairman and founder, who was a math prodigy at a very young age. So he was thinking in algorithms long before that was even a word." I'm done.
The term "algorithm" was first used in its current sense in 1817 (or earlier), I found a Monthly Review from 1817 that uses the term. If you include older meanings of the term it goes back even further!
@@bane2201 I can't decide whether they're implying that their leader is hundreds of years old, or they hope the viewer is ignorant enough to believe that this term only came to be a few decades ago.
About 20 years ago I was into esoterics and new age... I liked the various teas, esoteric music, I liked the Eastern philosopies, I was somewhat practicing zen and meditations... I got a bunch of scented sticks ... but if somebody wanted to pull me into a cult they would have to face my other side: my curiosity and fact checking. When I smell rat I go deeper until I figure out. And that is pretty much how I left this delusion about spirituality, cosmos and stuff. Learning about drugs, psychology, physical limits and how things actually work in the real world... I soon figured out what was what. But that zen still stuck with me. Be present in a moment and appreciate what you have. Life has no purpose, it has a meaning you give to it. Letting go is probably the hardest thing to do when we want to cling to things. And when you finish eating, clean the bowl.
Sounds like you arrived at a feeling of psuedo intelligence because you got tricked by some videos before. There are aspects to ancient wisom that go way deeper than your dish metaphor. Your just an arrogant kid tbh
@@jean-francoisaubryno you can't have any habitual habits.😂 Not even eating or breathing if you want to reach the rainbow body. 😂 So no washing that dish.
that guy was definitely the worst of everything he showed. I found a lot of it interesting though. I think 'Ordinary' guy is pretty closed minded and cynical. I think he could have done with learning yoga earlier in his development. His posture is atrocious, the scenes showing him trying to do yoga were nauseating for me. Poor guy
Mate, I've been following you for some time now and I gotta say, you've made some of the best, most consistent content I've seen on the Internet. Please keep going
@@OrdinaryThings Today is Mainstream science much more Dangerous then Gaia! And how much reliable where the Clima Prediction in the past? And Mainstream science is often Influenced by politics and Billionares!
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Found the ret4rd who really thinks NASA sht is legit. I am not subscribed to either Nasa nor Gaia while for some reason you think one of the two is more credible while they probably are both scamming you
I feel embarrassed to admit it, but I was subscribed to Gaia a little while ago and canceled my subscription after watching a video like this one. I'm not prepared to explain why their content appealed to me, just that I was at a very vulnerable time in my life and was feeling susceptible to all kinds of strange and alternative ideas (QAnon, New World Order bs, and the like). I just want to say I really appreciate an expose like this that brings the content a much-needed dosage of reality. Videos like these save people. Thank you
Cults, stuff like Gaia, MLMs, hardcore propaganda, etc. all are tailored to the vulnerable because they’re more easily manipulated. Unfortunately, there’s a huge number of vulnerable people in society ready to latch onto the first answer they see that even somewhat resonates with their own projections
Don’t be embarrassed, It is a lot more impressive to pull yourself away from those beliefs Gaia and most religious, cultish and spiritual content are designed to target people in a vulnerable state. Just think about religious people you know, most I know either grew up believing or had troubles and found god
I like how they leave out the fact that the point of placebo controlled trials is to make sure anything that becomes a pharmaceutical product is significantly more effective than a placebo.
Also they exclude recoveries due to other factors. Some conditions go into remission based on time (either due to the normal healing process or conditions that emerge and subside over time) or environmental changes (I.E. "I moved to somewhere with different humidity and my skin cleared up). This means that the "power of placebo" is smaller than it looks as both groups have random recoveries that have nothing to do with the trial. Source: BA in Psychology, so I learned a decent amount about clinical trials and some bleed over medical knowledge when things like psychiatric drugs came up.
Reminds me of the best advice I ever received from my grandmother. She always told me, "lil one. No matter what happens to you in this world, you'll be ok, aslong as you don't ever go into a giant ass maze built by a sketchy cult. There are literally many fables, myths, stories and legends that all confirm it. Don't go into a fuckin maze created by a bunch of crazy people who worship some wierd stuff" I always thought that was weirdly specific advice. But it's been surprisingly useful.
Years ago I used to watch the Gaia series Cosmic Disclosure back in the day because I found it entertaining. Then came back last year to rewatch the series and they swapped out the host for someone else and changed the lore. I was so blown because the originals were 10/10 hype. It's a conspiracy man, they should cosmically disclose that OG content!
You should watch the deposition of Corey Goode (one of the main cosmic disclosure guys) he had to admit flat out that he made everything up and never went to the moon (one of the big claims was he worked at a secret base on the moon for years) the crazy part is after the deposition leaked he just pretended it never happened and continued the grift.
@@nigelnix1 notice how it's always famous people - or, at the very least, people in touch with the famous people and who've led fascinating lives? No-one's "like, "yeah, I was a peasant... then another peasant... then a more successful peasant which means I sold other people my home-brew... oh, look! A peasant again..." :-D
I think it would need to go even further back because in ancient Egypt they still had rituals, and rituals are "scripted" (they follow a pattern/algorith) so technically they already had a way to convey the idea of an algorithm. lol
Im from India and the "samadhi" they're talking about actually means "tomb" or "grave" in south indian language called Tamil. It does have some significance as it is a word still in use today
Small anecdote I remember going to pick up some food in a place i was not to familiar with, while i was waiting for the food outside, i started to read products from a clearly snake oil store next to the food place,i saw some silly ones like sexual enhancers with very explicit wording that gave me a good chuckle. That is until i saw that they also were selling, and i quote:”tumor remover”. Absolutely vile people.
Did you research it before condemning it. There is a natural cure for tumors called Blushwood Berry. Go ahead and be closed minded, maybe chemo will work for you. It rarely does, but it's very dramatic and traumatic. All the world is a stage.
Love this guy. He's so cynical yet not in the "wow everything sucks we're on a floating rock people bad" kinda way. His videos are campy and fun while also being real
I am also annoyed by the anti-human schtick. Also, annoyed none of the perpetrators have made any effort to remove themselves from being part of the problem.
Places like Gaia are hell holes. People go there with a belief and enter an echo chamber. Constantly being told they’re right until they don’t believe in anything that is factually correct.
like 90% of “new age spirituality” is just watered down hinduism/buddhism lol. like there’s nothing wrong with questioning the fundamentals of your reality and looking inwards to escape suffering but don’t get ur info from a cult lol, read the vedas or something.
All religions work like cults. The problem, as you said, isn't in questioning the fundamentals of your reality. The problem is imposing an answer on other people without evidence.
@@ekki1993 religions that are prone to being cults are mostly Protestant Christianity, those who claim they’re Jesus or claim theyre the direct descendant of Jesus so you must give him your money for a jet lol
@@mjolninja9358 Sure Judeo-Christian ones are similar to the stereotypical cult, but any religion is, by design, cult-like in their problematic aspects. They tell you an answer to a question that can't be proven either way and impose their worldview on what's good and what's bad. I'm not saying that's inherently bad, but treating "cults" as a separate phenomenon when they are in fact just small religions is a completely unproductive way to understand their issues.
@@ThatGuy-kz3fx Never compared both religions. Just namedropped Judeo-Christianity to make it clear I wasn't talking only from knowing about that. You do however seem to like to compare your preferred religious framework and imply that it's better than Christianity and that atheists need it to not be miserable. Again, back to the cult behaviour, trying to sell your personal response of the big problems of life to everyone else.
You forgot Cosmic Disclosure with David Wilcock. The episodes with Corey Goode talking about the Secret Space Program and Blue Avian aliens are so outlandish that it’s actually quite entertaining.
Ya that struck a cord for me, a good finger on the pulse nail on the head unpacking... I was always looking for that short to the point conclusion trying to argue common sense to new age, satanist, nihilist ect bs saying freewill doesn't exist, a tree falling doesn't make a sound. calling it for what it is, @utism, just gets replies removed...
I knew a women, called Mona, that believed in that shit and then died of breast cancer. Some esotherics like Gaia got her money and were happy. Evil little bastards! I really wish they would all die.
I sincerely believe that the worst thing about Gaia is that it turns a lot of genuinely profound questions and insights into a clown show, so that even if some of it was worth considering most people will be driven hard in the other direction. Towards pure scientific materialism. Which sucks because I really believe we are spiritual being having a human experience. Love your content and love taking the piss out of myself too, so take everything with a pinch of salt. Love and light as the cliche goes x
That's a good assessment of Gaia. I get the feeling if Gaia was non-profit with the sole purpose of helping people, the teachings would be a lot more pure instead of endless watered down content for $$$.
Exactly there's nothing objective or scientific about it, and takes away people actually thinking for themselves and considering spirituality that can be consistent with scientific progress
I feel exactly the same way. I think the mind over matter, placebo effect and the theory of civilisations older than Sumeria are fascinating topics that the mainstream does not take seriously enough but the Gaia programs are just a piss take which reinforce the mainstream dismissal
It makes you wanna take a double take on your fellow yogi friend, and try to knock them back to their senses before they start saying the election was stolen.
They do that for anything that appears to discuss climate change and/or climate change denial, even if it denies or mocks the denial. Even if it's entirely factual and scientific and still doesn't fit the popular narrative (let's face it, especially so).
You should be aware that that occurrence has nothing to do with how dangerous Gaia is or is not. Those cards appear on any video that directly references certain topics such as climate change or vaccines
Thank you for exposing this. I mean, I saw the red flags from the trailers, obviously, but it's always nice when someone willing to invest in uncovering does a debunk. What's really sad is what it has done to Eastern traditions. All this rubbish about energy waves and, well, you know. the galaxy brain garbage--it undermines the centuries-old wisdom of Eastern traditions. For those about to leap on me 'What wisdom...?' I'm not talking cancer denying, medicine-denying dangerous stuff, I'm talking about really helpful ways of dealing with mental health, of finding community. People/things like Gaia take our past, our history, and our traditions and scrape it through the dirt. They should be ashamed of themselves.
So, one of my favourite Gaia contributors (both ironically and unironically) is Reuben Langdon. Reuben is most well known as voicing and performing as Dante from the Devil May Cry series, beginning his career in entertainment as a stunt man for Japan's original Power Rangers/Super Sentai, before getting into mocap and voice acting. Eventually he worked on James Cameron's Avatar, which was a long "shoot" with lots of downtime that he spent on early UA-cam, looking at conspiracy and UFO videos. He and part of the rest of the crew sighted a fleet of UFOs flying over the studio and thereafter he took the red pill. Following that he started engaging with the theory that UFOs are a psychic phenomenon that you can summon, got into the Wim Hoff yogic breathing method, and did a UA-cam series called "Interviews With E.T" were he interview channelled aliens (which is legitimately fascinating on an anthropological level). Gaia bought that series (more recently renamed "Interviews With E.D") and he now seems to do some sort of partial exclusive series of it with them. He's BIG into UFOs and aliens with a spiritual, vibrational angle, talking about raising global consciousness and all that new agey tilted stuff. But in the last 2 years he's also gotten into Q Anon, believe in the scamdemic, and god knows what else since I last checked in on him. Thankfully he's a legitimately lovely person, though I can't help but worry that will change with who he rubs shoulders with these days.
Crystals, in general, are pretty cool. I'm a particular fan of iron with a cubic crystal structure. No need to make up silly 'healing' aspects to crystals, they're neat enough on their own.
PHOSPHORS. Phosphors are the coolest effing property crystals can ever have, they store energy and then slowly release it over time as light, anyone who says glow-in-the-dark stuff isn't awesome has no inner child left in their cold withered heart.
crystals are just a representation of the different minerals the earth holds and how these minerals can benefit us. white women and astrologists turned it into some woowoo magic man shit. just like chakras are the main vertebrae’s in your spine. your spine has neurons that communicate to different parts of your brain. its not magic just science and biology
Samadhi ain't an "ancient Sanskrit word without modern meaning". I'm a Sri Lankan Buddhist and we learn it as just higher consciousness or concentration. And it ain't Sanskrit. The original meaning of "Samadhi" in Buddhism comes from Pali. Later it was translated to Sanskrit by the Mahayana sect. The pronunciation is the same but it is widely believed that the translation caused a loss of meaning. The point is at least these people could have got their info right and said Pali. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love language, and have an interest in Sanskrit, so it's always nice when I find one of the few people who still know it. I've always seen people use the word as some sort of vague buzzword that doesn't mean anything, and so I'm not really surprised that a litany of translations has eroded the original meaning.
7:57 - As someone who has written way too many papers on Plato in college, that scene made me laugh because I feel it was half a sentence... I feel the second part of the sentence was supposed to say something such as, "The only way out of the cave... is with a subscription to Gaia starting at..." in a soothing voice. I truly think something like that was in the original script.
Almost every ad I get on YT is Gaia, those guys REALLY want me on board. My favourite is the one where guy says: "the fetus, it is not human" with a heavy euro accent.
Effing well done! I am a lifestyle medicine educator (ex nurse) and i went down the path of alternative medicine for awhile until i started to feel ‘icky’ about some of the things they were teaching. I looked around me and saw either snake oil salesmen/women or vulnerable, naive and desperate people. I was fortunate to find my way to LM and have never been happier. I am still in the process of educating myself and am currently doing my graduate diploma in LM with hopes to do my PhD. Unless people face reality, any solution will not be effective. I love this video and applaud your research and message to help people see the truth. I nearly joined Gaia because it was targeting me but held off. Now I know what it is about I have zero interest in it. Thanks!
I honestly think this is the best video on youtube. It brings comedy and awareness together beautifully. I'll watch every Ordinary Things video, but for some reason I always come back to this one. Maybe it's that english snark of yours.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Goblin brain gets what goblin brain wants. And if I'm out on the beach looking for pretty rocks and old fossils, I'm not there to assign spiritual meaning to them, I just think they look cool and it's wild to think some of them could potentially be 10s of millions of years old. Rocks are cool enough without woo woo science added on.
god, hearing joe say "we're not doomed by our genes" just reminds me of the stuff my grandma tries to push onto me. I was born with mitochondrial disease, I have a genetic disorder with no cure, but my grandma pushes this stuff on me saying "if you think positive things it could heal your DNA". Or telling me if I eat different foods it'll somehow fix my DNA in ways that leading medical research hasn't come anywhere close to. It is true to some degree that your mental health ties into your physical health, when my mental health is doing worse than usual it does make my symptoms flare up more than normal. But what I tend to notice with the kind of things my grandma pushes is taking something that can be helpful, and then thinking that to an extreme will do way more than it ever could realistically achieve.
If it makes you feel better science is actually trying to do the things the woo-woo stuff is pushing, and they're investigating how cuttlefish can innately edit their own RNA to in turn tweak their genes. So maybe in a decade or two you'll get some reprogrammed cuttlefish RNA providing genetic therapy for your disorder. But it's definitely not going to be "think you don't have it and eat this and you'll be cured" BS.
Unless you come from a family from truly thriving people then it's not that surprising that you would have these issues. Living poorly has consequences. Not saying that's how it is, but in theory.
@souliisoul a mitochondrial gene mutation has nothing to do with how you or your family "are living". Considering it starts before you're practically living at all. Either his mother had it as well, or it was a random mutation while he was developing. And while there are certainly things you can do to decrease those risks, there's absolutely nothing you can do to reduce them past a certain background level.
There is nothing that could make me believe that the Universe gives a shit about me anymore or make me think that my life or anyone’s life is so incredibly important or have some divine purpose is so completely absurd and ridiculous to me on every conceivable level imaginable!
I’m not subscribed, but I am subscribing now. I’ve been getting into “that” community for some time now, about 6 months, this was just what I needed to help me out of it. Thank you
Yoga just teaches you to have a good diet, excercise regularly, read and learn regularly and meditate (contemplate deeply) on what you have learnt. Plain and simple. Good way to live a life.
22:37 what you said at the end is just great. I think people that watch GAIA don't want to think out the box, and put in some work to learn different aspects of anything. They would rather let their inner fantasies be hijacked by griffters.
You were slightly talking about cancer towards the end of your video and I guess UA-cam thought you were a spokesmen for it.. I have never seen so many cancer/cancer help ads in a UA-cam video before.. I hope everyone is okay
I watched Gaia for alternative medicine advice during a stay at a psyche unit. It worked perfectly! My mind was opened so wide that my lobotomy was canceled!
Did they told you that the lootomy was canceled after you woke up from the procedure too? I dont know how to make this sentece in a way to suggest it happened to me also
5:39 watch this again, but now you know that Gaia is the third most populous town in Portugal. a.k.a. New Gaia (Vila nova de Gaia). Gaia is a city in Portugal. the Southern side of Porto. it actually named the country Gaia was called Calle, and today's Porto was the "port of Calle" the city was growing and ended up naming the county of "Portucalle" in the 12th century, evolving to Portugal. Calle probably came from the Celtic word for "vilage" or for the name of the people that lived there. It also ended up naming Galicia, since portugal was just Southern Galicia. Gaia named both Portugal and Galicia. almost the entire atlantic coast of Iberia.
Hey! Plenty of us who have bongs in our laps are completely normal, salt-of-the-earth people. I laugh at pseudoscience just like you do... except for the lizard person/hollow earth stuff, that is real af bro.
Great report, subbed. There has been research that suggests that _even if a patient knows_ placebos can help. I'm not justifying these charlatans... It's thought that it boils down to the "good bedside manners" of a doctor helping a patient feel better. That calm you get from the village shaman's sense of confidence. 😁👍
I hate when people use the word energy signals because LITERALLY EVERYTHING in the universe is energy scientifically speaking. So if you're not being specific about what you mean by energy [chemical, physical, electromagnetic...] it means nothing
I 'thought' some very serious stomach issues away. Maybe not the best first course of action but if medical intervention isnt working you can impress your body into a state of health with continuous reinforcement
Person: has cancer Hospital: use chemo-therapy Person: Dies precisely from the chemo Hospital: Oh it didn't work you're also dead. I do think Gaia is a scam. However, I would blame capitalism for the repression of natural cures and other modalities of treatment
@@theredgoblin562 Because psychedelics definitely aren't hazardous in any way, shape, or form, they don't often affect a wide variety of people in an even wider variety of ways, can't permanently alter brain chemistry, aren't abused by a shitload of people who just want to trip balls, and there's definitely not a metric ton of pseudo-spiritual horseshit already attached to the psychedelic movement that's just ripe and waiting to be manipulated by the right grifter. _Totally._ Look, bro, I like tripping balls on shrooms as much as the next guy, LSD too, but pretending that a powerful brain trip is the same as receiving legitimate medical care isn't just _personally stupid,_ it's hazardous info to spread to all the other gullible people out there. Yes, there is a decent amount of data to support the idea that psychedelics _might_ prove beneficial in the treatment of _certain_ mental illnesses, but: (1) *Definitely* not all mental illnesses. (2) Those studies still need to be researched further, preferably by more than one institution/group, that way a group with an agenda (either for _or_ against) doesn't just coincidentally reach a result that they clearly wanted to from the start. (3) Drug culture _pretending_ that psychedelics are a magical cure-all is a downright dangerous lie to spread. (4) Even if they do prove to be beneficial, it would be when prescribed _alongside_ proper psyche therapy and professional medical supervision.
The placebo effect fan have a massive impact on certain areas of medicine. Especially with pain management, obviously cancer isn't one of those areas. There's a podcast called hidden brain (not pseudo science) that talks about the placebo effect that was really fascinating
Placebo effect really hinders creation of new medicine for Big Pharma - when the new drugs are wokring on the same level as placebo but with side effects
@@devilhunterred but only if u truly believe it'd help, any shred of doubt makes it less effective you gotta be completely delusionsal for it to truly work
@God no it doesn't require you to be delusional for placebo effect to work, it requires you to be deceived. If a doctor gives you a sugar pill and tells you it's Advil, placebo effect strongly suggests the sugar pill will still have actual benefits to your body.
I honestly think one of the main selling points to this type of spiritual woowoo is escapism. I once knew a girl whom I tried to help and give advice to on her life issues and I knew she was into this kind of stuff. Talking about astrology, energy crystals, tarrot cards and what not. It later became apparent to me that she had a habit of running away from her responsibilities and problems and I think she used these things as an escape. After all, knowing there's "something more" to the world let's your current real life issues seem a little less significant. She also used it as a way to have a feeling of control over her life where she otherwise didn't. She practically based her life off of her astrology horoscopes and she believed every person's characteristics were determined by their star sign. I guess another selling point would be a sense of meaning. Finding a legitimate reason to work and to continue to live in the modern world while being completely atheistic or taking everything at face value might become rather depressing for some people, and that's why so many people flock to religion and spirituality to gain a sense of meaning.
Very well said. I've noticed that people who claim to be "witches" are usually compensating for a lack of control over their circumstances and choices, while people who succeed in their social environment (i.e. the popular regular folks) don't seem to have much use for witchcraft...
Lazy cowards, albeit harsh, is basically what they are. For example, meaning is subjective and ascribed. I find that understanding the nature of things to be far more fulfilling than seeking self-delusionment
The demons that housed themselves as a guise of her personality got to her and made her believe in this garbage. Only way truly to help her to guide her to Christ and scrub every surface deeply... nothing that "religion" could ever do.
As someone who grew up with a "psychic mother" and my parents actually had the nerve to teach that garbage to thier children. You hit the nail on the head. Edit: she was a Wiccan witch too btw.
I agree with everything you said. Recently my fiancee has been getting into this, talking about "the matrix", the "reptilians", channeling aliens, etc. All the conspiracy theories that Gaia has to offer. It's causing issues in our relationship because she says I'm not "open minded". I'm open minded, but I believe in spiritualism, science, and things that are grounded. The things she talks about are absolutely insane. I don't know what to do.
I installed Gaia on both my phones, and now my mind is so enlightened that its left my body and I've suffered 5 seizures in the past hour.
The seizures are actually not seizures and you have thrown the curtain aside and seen the light. They are your healing faeries.
Weird, I actually bought a Gaiam branded yoga ball that came with a DVD to throw in a little yoga before I get into my real workout, weights. Maybe the company was trying to expand to the non-crazy market, but apart from stereotypical "new age" music, the DVD was a pretty ordinary workout video. There wasn't any philosophy or spiritualism.
BM is a 12 year old man, PRESENTING TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, unconscious. This is what happened to his brain.
@@profightcompilations4764 ur my favorite
I think it’s from having two phones not Gaia
dutch translation: Grab your elbows, place your arms on the backrest, let your forehead rest on your arms, your back has to be parallel with the ground..
no matter how much i try i cannot visualize this
I can't tell my arse from my elbow.
You can understand why I don't do yoga
Dankt he, kut!
Ik ga het zeggen
GEKOLONISEERD
It was such sensual Dutch as well
"Reality is weird enough, you don't need to write fanfiction about it."
Absolutely brilliant.
Which reality are you referring too?
If earth was hollow then where would the underground dinosaurs live?
agreed
I just woke up...suddenwise, was thinking of the term "fan-fiction". Doris Ione Smith comes thru again! When she comes thru...you better listen....i better listen too!
Jesus fucking christ...gaia.... Metaphysics fan-fiction and Biblical fan-fiction. I cant tell the difference sometimes. hey NordicWolf7. If someone dosent know the true story, lets just make up a fake story to fill in the gaps. Doris calls it the "Hollywood Syndrome". Fukin A....you crossed the eithers dude. This must have been and important question for U?
As a 12 year old I had a TEACHER in my school tell me that with the power of positive thinking I could cure my Cystic Fibrosis. For those that don't know, CF is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation of (most commonly) the F501 Delta gene. This mutation is present in every single cell of my body (I'm simplifying like crazy rn). This woman, an authority figure, told a CHILD that they could cure their fatal disease... by *wishing it away*. To say my mom was angry is an understatement, but obviously 30 something years later, I still remember the damage this did to me. COULD it work? Should I try it? Could it save my life? HOW could it work?! The closest I've gotten from a medical professional saying "positive thinking would help" was the clinic therapist mentioning that by centering myself, doing hobbies I enjoy, and cultivating a safe and positive environment, I was avoiding depressive episodes which helped in maintaining my medication and healthcare routines necessary to LIVE. If the placebo effect helps you, that's wonderful, but to push to *actually medically ill patients* that they do not need or can will away medical help.... it's at best disgusting, and at worst dangerously negligent.
While I don’t think that positive thinking can cure any illness I do think it can a person *feel* better but they should still go to the doctor to check you up.
Remember, feeling good doesn’t prove that you aren’t sick
Many many people have parasites and they feel fine.
Stay safe.
I think your teacher told you the wrong thing for sure. I wonder if she really believed that you or anyone else could simply wish or pray away a genetic disease/defect? I wonder how you are doing and I sure hope your CF symptoms are not getting the best of you! Godspeed ❤
Thinking actually affect matter even tho in a small degree. You should stop being ignorant.
@@cyberreality7774 source?
@@cyberreality7774 that's a nice argument Cyber, mind backing it up with a source?
The problem with having an open mind is people will insist on trying to put things in it. -Terry Pratchett
No, that’s your mouth.
@@delmarchipperson2049 No, that's your mother
@@bobisnotaperson Well it sure ain't my life! Still empty...
"don't be so open minded your brains fall out" - Carness Vaughn
Pssst,its free real estate
“Reality is weird on its own, you don’t need to start writing fan fiction about it” 🤣
" For when, you know, you just get sick of putting your fingers in your ears and going EEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH!"
@Sebastian Hahn I don't know, isn't a model train technically still a train?
the second i saw the comment he said it lol
true that
@@9WEAVER9 not specific enough, some yes and some no
"You are the prison"
We are made of cells he got a point
2 drums and a symbol fall off a cliff
Too bad there's also cells outside of us too, meaning the world becomes once more a prison
It's prisons all the way down man, and then you start hitting the turtles
Cells within cells within cells.
@@spacebassist It's all prisons.
The most unbelievable thing about this Gaia thing is that they have messed up the basics of Yoga, i.e it comes from India and has its origins in Hinduism instead of Buddhism, a difference of almost a millennia.
Exactly!
Well, Buddhism came from the hindu religion . Just wanting to run away from the cast system present in Hinduism
Just as a correction because this is a common incorrect myth that is spread, but yoga predates Hinduism. In fact, yoga predates all religions and did not come from any of them. For some reason the followers of Hinduism love to lie about this fact, probably because Hinduism was a religion started around the culture of yoga. To make it clear I have no problem with Hinduism or anyone who believes it, however yoga is not a religion and never has been and it is extremely harmful for people to claim that it is.
@@Jesse-ge4lvwhat is yoga in that case?
@@Jesse-ge4lv "Religion" is a western term, and if I recall correctly the Hindu term for Hinduism translates to Eternal Tradition, and since Yoga is a tradition that Hindu people practiced, it is a part of Hinduism.
About to go change my job title on LinkedIn to 'Ambassador of Member Growth'
That's what she said...
@@lrrr9734 Literally
lmaoo
Do it
yes
6:29 "He was thinking in algorithms long before that was even a word"
*Al Khwarizmi has entered the chat in 800 AD*
He's 65 Million Years old, his Mom is the planet and his father is an Old Great One. Didn't you read his book while smoking crack?
I had to facepalm so hard it almost knocked me out
Dumbasss.. He said Aljjwhorerrhythms
Sad to invent algorithms almost 1,200 years before there is a profession that uses them. And I thought Ada Lovelace had a sad time.
@@dakrontu yeah god, there are so many math/science historical figures that were so on the ball but just had no way of moving much past theory and hand calculations. And yet they're still legends. When I grow up I wanna be like them lol
Gaia's response video: "The Everyday Truth of Ordinary Things"
pleaseeeeee
Based on their new age, dualistic or idealistic beliefs: skeptical people are caught in a behavioral pattern of neglect & harm towards themselves. Cribbing off of Buddhism and related belief systems like the thieves they are, they position themselves as honorable and trustworthy guides when they actually perpetuate the suffering and attachment they claim to fight against.
@@supercellodude yes.
I know we're just joking here... but there won't be one, because they wouldn't have anything to say (or at least anything of substance). The usual response of grifters and pseudo-gurus is to just pretend the critics don't exist, and hope their followers don't notice it either.
We need thermonuclear protection for our eyes
The way this platform messed with me during episodes of psychosis….. thank you for clearing things up
Hope you’re still doing okay. ❤❤
Ough yeah, whenever I'm in psychosis or having those kinds of thought patterns I force myself to watch only cooking shows
@@realleon2328 I love cooking shows. As someone with (some mental illness that makes it impossible to focus) they really hold my attention and aren't too stressful or complicated
Fucking hell, that must have been rough. Im psychotic too and I know this would fuck me over badly if I’m the wrong spot, hope you’re still doing good 11 months on.
@@realleon2328why does every mfer in this thread claiming psychosis have a trippy profile picture. Sounds like you chose the identity
The real question is how many out of context lines and bits we can take from this new video
please be kind
Ordinary Things YTPs when?
Yes
@@OrdinaryThings about 677 and 3 quarters
@@OrdinaryThings did you get offended or is this irony?
Gaia is the real life "history channel at 3am" meme
Gaia is if the History Channel was *always* crazy rather than it being a gradual process. From Hitler to aliens to Ghost Harassers.
Thats a good one haha
Gaia: but what if hitlers ghost was actually an alien?
I like the GaiaBrand™ UA-cam-channel- -airiated couch chips; but Munchos™ are a vat easier to open👁️🗨️
So true 🤣🤣
"Reality is weird enough on its own you don't need to start writing fan fiction about it"
That might be the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life thank you
Oh wow, I love that. My personal outlook is that a lot of spirituality is the art and culture of humans in practice, not a science. It's the idea that they decided to take observations and tell stories of expression and creativity about them. And it's all well and good until its taught as fact without proof and used to harm people.
Nah, reality is boring as fuck
@@eneco3965 do acid
@@eneco3965 Do you want to escape reality and live in a fantasy world?
@@adeleinetheartist8267 Who says we're not doing that already?
The best book I’ve ever read on chemotherapy is called The Great Secret, and it tells the story of how a horrible but classified disaster in Italy in WWII involving chemical weapons gave rise to the discovery that leukemia *could* actually be treated. It does a really good job of conveying the sort of heady wonder and joy in the medical field as chemotherapy actually began to make significant inroads in giving extra years to, and eventually curing, people who would have died very quickly.
Yeah, chemotherapy is a brutal treatment that works because cancer cells are far more aggressive about growth than all but a few healthy cells. What a lot of people don't realize is that killing cancer cells is easy, the challenge is doing it in a way that doesn't kill healthy cells too.
THC supposedly helps for many cancer types.
A few extra years sometimes ain’t worth the pain though. I’ve seen a lot of people go thru it. Only a few were “cured” and it was never for longer than 5 years.
The cut/burn/poison approach is from the Rockefeller system.
@@jeltoninc.8542 What I understand most "survivors " aren't so much as cured but in remission...
Gaia's whole deal seems like one of those cults you come across from gta v
@Magnum Dong yeah! That's what I thought this reminded me of. The guys in gta v in light blue robes who say kifflom.
you mean scientology which sadly is real as well?
@Stellvia Hoenheim gaia's marketing sounds so stupid it could only come out of a gta game
Movementarians - the Leader is the Beans (or something)
@@Rabavilas Well that's the problem innit? It doesn't sound stupid, it is stupid, and it isn't in a game, it's a real thing, that real people buy into. Which is kinda what Stellvia was saying.
"...starting with our chairman and founder, who was a math prodigy at a very young age. So he was thinking in algorithms long before that was even a word."
I'm done.
The term "algorithm" was first used in its current sense in 1817 (or earlier), I found a Monthly Review from 1817 that uses the term. If you include older meanings of the term it goes back even further!
@@bane2201 I can't decide whether they're implying that their leader is hundreds of years old, or they hope the viewer is ignorant enough to believe that this term only came to be a few decades ago.
@@bbelilovsky
Most of this new age BS is just a bunch of meaningless woo, they probably don't even know what algorithm means.
that's such a stupid thing to say😭😭 This guy is the Soulja boy of maths
@@bbelilovsky That, or he didn’t learn what it was until after he’s been doing it for so long.
"Lawnmower Man-esque CGI representations of what your mom thinks LSD is like"
Sublime.
Your mom did LSD.
About 20 years ago I was into esoterics and new age... I liked the various teas, esoteric music, I liked the Eastern philosopies, I was somewhat practicing zen and meditations... I got a bunch of scented sticks ... but if somebody wanted to pull me into a cult they would have to face my other side: my curiosity and fact checking. When I smell rat I go deeper until I figure out. And that is pretty much how I left this delusion about spirituality, cosmos and stuff. Learning about drugs, psychology, physical limits and how things actually work in the real world... I soon figured out what was what. But that zen still stuck with me. Be present in a moment and appreciate what you have. Life has no purpose, it has a meaning you give to it. Letting go is probably the hardest thing to do when we want to cling to things. And when you finish eating, clean the bowl.
Wash my dish once a day...its ok ?
Sounds like you arrived at a feeling of psuedo intelligence because you got tricked by some videos before. There are aspects to ancient wisom that go way deeper than your dish metaphor. Your just an arrogant kid tbh
@@jean-francoisaubryno you can't have any habitual habits.😂 Not even eating or breathing if you want to reach the rainbow body. 😂
So no washing that dish.
Yea, there's definitely a nugget of truth in all this spirituality stuff, but I hate all the pseudoscience
"we had to have thermonuclear protection for our eyes"
you also need that to watch this video
"But in zee end, ze thermonuclear goggles, zey did nasing!"
The interviewer forgot to ask where he bought his Oakley's.
that guy was definitely the worst of everything he showed. I found a lot of it interesting though.
I think 'Ordinary' guy is pretty closed minded and cynical. I think he could have done with learning yoga earlier in his development. His posture is atrocious, the scenes showing him trying to do yoga were nauseating for me. Poor guy
Sun does nuclear fusion in high temperature. Sunglasses are protection against the sun.
Mate, I've been following you for some time now and I gotta say, you've made some of the best, most consistent content I've seen on the Internet.
Please keep going
I appreciate that! thanks king 👑
Oh
@@OrdinaryThings Today is Mainstream science much more Dangerous then Gaia!
And how much reliable where the Clima Prediction in the past?
And Mainstream science is often Influenced by politics and Billionares!
Horseshit
You know what must be a fun job? Being the artist that makes all these trippy 3D graphics for Gaia.
No i would prefer making up cgi for Nasa. You scam way more people. Including those who laugh at people scammed by Gaia. So funny man.
@@cyberreality7774 found the gullible gaua subscriber
@@cyberreality7774 Cyber reality? More like delusional reality 🙏
@@anthonyschwartz1084 More like you cannot argue back so you name call
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Found the ret4rd who really thinks NASA sht is legit. I am not subscribed to either Nasa nor Gaia while for some reason you think one of the two is more credible while they probably are both scamming you
I feel embarrassed to admit it, but I was subscribed to Gaia a little while ago and canceled my subscription after watching a video like this one. I'm not prepared to explain why their content appealed to me, just that I was at a very vulnerable time in my life and was feeling susceptible to all kinds of strange and alternative ideas (QAnon, New World Order bs, and the like). I just want to say I really appreciate an expose like this that brings the content a much-needed dosage of reality. Videos like these save people. Thank you
Glad you're doing better now! x
Cults, stuff like Gaia, MLMs, hardcore propaganda, etc. all are tailored to the vulnerable because they’re more easily manipulated. Unfortunately, there’s a huge number of vulnerable people in society ready to latch onto the first answer they see that even somewhat resonates with their own projections
@@BigLeagueDrewt. whacko
Don’t be embarrassed,
It is a lot more impressive to pull yourself away from those beliefs
Gaia and most religious, cultish and spiritual content are designed to target people in a vulnerable state.
Just think about religious people you know, most I know either grew up believing or had troubles and found god
Yeahh when My aunt died and I was buried in grief I went head first into wacky conspiracy theories. Specifically 911 and mk ultra. ugh. Thanks grief
Finally a new upload
Bruh, Papa Flammy watches this too? Epic.
Flammable Maths, this is unexpected. It seems I can't even hide from my mathe abi on an american yt channel ...
// edit: BRITISH yt channel
Love your videos man!
I see your comments in literally every video I see
And newly, a fine upload.
I like how they leave out the fact that the point of placebo controlled trials is to make sure anything that becomes a pharmaceutical product is significantly more effective than a placebo.
Shhhhh
We’re selling ideas ova hea
19:00
@@IgoreandTorii Gaia: “oh you thought this was woo woo? silly un-enlightened beings these are actually *woo woo sounding modality* “
Also they exclude recoveries due to other factors. Some conditions go into remission based on time (either due to the normal healing process or conditions that emerge and subside over time) or environmental changes (I.E. "I moved to somewhere with different humidity and my skin cleared up). This means that the "power of placebo" is smaller than it looks as both groups have random recoveries that have nothing to do with the trial.
Source: BA in Psychology, so I learned a decent amount about clinical trials and some bleed over medical knowledge when things like psychiatric drugs came up.
Reminds me of the best advice I ever received from my grandmother.
She always told me,
"lil one. No matter what happens to you in this world, you'll be ok, aslong as you don't ever go into a giant ass maze built by a sketchy cult. There are literally many fables, myths, stories and legends that all confirm it. Don't go into a fuckin maze created by a bunch of crazy people who worship some wierd stuff"
I always thought that was weirdly specific advice. But it's been surprisingly useful.
True but it also sounds fun
@@eggheadusa well it was between that and
"always get the candy upfront before you get in the van"
Your already in the maze. You just haven't realized it. You create your reality around you.
Unfortunately, its a very boring advice.
You must take the journey. It’s what your soul wants and needs.
Years ago I used to watch the Gaia series Cosmic Disclosure back in the day because I found it entertaining. Then came back last year to rewatch the series and they swapped out the host for someone else and changed the lore. I was so blown because the originals were 10/10 hype. It's a conspiracy man, they should cosmically disclose that OG content!
You should watch the deposition of Corey Goode (one of the main cosmic disclosure guys) he had to admit flat out that he made everything up and never went to the moon (one of the big claims was he worked at a secret base on the moon for years) the crazy part is after the deposition leaked he just pretended it never happened and continued the grift.
"He was thinking in algorithms long before that thing was even a word." Sooooo.... in ancient Egypt?
😂😂
He's probably had a bunch of past lives as famous people. 😂
@@nigelnix1 notice how it's always famous people - or, at the very least, people in touch with the famous people and who've led fascinating lives? No-one's "like, "yeah, I was a peasant... then another peasant... then a more successful peasant which means I sold other people my home-brew... oh, look! A peasant again..."
:-D
I think it would need to go even further back because in ancient Egypt they still had rituals, and rituals are "scripted" (they follow a pattern/algorith) so technically they already had a way to convey the idea of an algorithm. lol
@Speed Junkie Exactly what the comment said, ancient egypt is before algorithm was a thing.
"open your third eye so wide your frontal lobe will fall out" actually a really clever line that perfectly describes gaia
Cool username
@@Prespanda You too mister President
@@luciuscorneliusscipio9023 me?
oh how's Africanus nowadays? :-)
@@Prespanda HEY! You weren't elected... I was >:V
Im from India and the "samadhi" they're talking about actually means "tomb" or "grave" in south indian language called Tamil. It does have some significance as it is a word still in use today
Sssh, they just want to appropriate your language for their own profit, not actually know what words really mean!
Yeah, I am tamil too, and samadhi does mean "a grave". But I don't know if it has a different meaning in sanskrit.
@Sean Francis Waters Lancaster yeah I know that, and your point being?
I think samadhi means last salutation or is conceived to mean this in the north
According to Google , it actually is a sanskrit word for "to collect" or "concentrate".
Small anecdote
I remember going to pick up some food in a place i was not to familiar with, while i was waiting for the food outside, i started to read products from a clearly snake oil store next to the food place,i saw some silly ones like sexual enhancers with very explicit wording that gave me a good chuckle.
That is until i saw that they also were selling, and i quote:”tumor remover”.
Absolutely vile people.
Did you research it before condemning it. There is a natural cure for tumors called Blushwood Berry. Go ahead and be closed minded, maybe chemo will work for you. It rarely does, but it's very dramatic and traumatic. All the world is a stage.
I set here and debunk him he is somehow a self proclaimed know it all. He's just a little fuckery himself 🎉
I don't like this little idiot he pisses me off 😤
He has convinced me. That I hate him 🎉
Asshole know it all. He doesn't know shit 🎉
Love this guy. He's so cynical yet not in the "wow everything sucks we're on a floating rock people bad" kinda way. His videos are campy and fun while also being real
He's fighting a constant battle with his cynical philosophies and his fun loving charismatic sense of expression.
Or maybe it's the perfect balance.
I am also annoyed by the anti-human schtick. Also, annoyed none of the perpetrators have made any effort to remove themselves from being part of the problem.
But we are on a floating rock and people are -bad- stupid
@@anameyoucantremember yeah obviously, why let it take away from your existence.
@@zoopdterdoobdter5743 If anti-human hunans commit anti-human then they can’t anti more humans.
Places like Gaia are hell holes. People go there with a belief and enter an echo chamber. Constantly being told they’re right until they don’t believe in anything that is factually correct.
Just like facebook
Relax guys and gal, just don't go there 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ stop judging communities.🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@kayleighgarrett402 dang you beat me
@@assasin101011straight they probably watch Netflix and see no problem
@@assasin101011 sure...until they start tellin your friends to drink some kool aid with them
like 90% of “new age spirituality” is just watered down hinduism/buddhism lol. like there’s nothing wrong with questioning the fundamentals of your reality and looking inwards to escape suffering but don’t get ur info from a cult lol, read the vedas or something.
It's not religion that makes men, it's men that make religion.
All religions work like cults. The problem, as you said, isn't in questioning the fundamentals of your reality. The problem is imposing an answer on other people without evidence.
@@ekki1993 religions that are prone to being cults are mostly Protestant Christianity, those who claim they’re Jesus or claim theyre the direct descendant of Jesus so you must give him your money for a jet lol
@@mjolninja9358 Sure Judeo-Christian ones are similar to the stereotypical cult, but any religion is, by design, cult-like in their problematic aspects. They tell you an answer to a question that can't be proven either way and impose their worldview on what's good and what's bad.
I'm not saying that's inherently bad, but treating "cults" as a separate phenomenon when they are in fact just small religions is a completely unproductive way to understand their issues.
@@ThatGuy-kz3fx Never compared both religions. Just namedropped Judeo-Christianity to make it clear I wasn't talking only from knowing about that.
You do however seem to like to compare your preferred religious framework and imply that it's better than Christianity and that atheists need it to not be miserable.
Again, back to the cult behaviour, trying to sell your personal response of the big problems of life to everyone else.
You forgot Cosmic Disclosure with David Wilcock. The episodes with Corey Goode talking about the Secret Space Program and Blue Avian aliens are so outlandish that it’s actually quite entertaining.
@Insomniac at least you know better now
Devil May cry, David wilcock
Watch the Corey Goode deposition where he has to admit everything he said on that show was a lie. It’s wild.
"Esoteric stock-footage psycho-magik fuckery" is probably the most apt description of this genre I've ever heard. 10/10
Ya that struck a cord for me, a good finger on the pulse nail on the head unpacking...
I was always looking for that short to the point conclusion trying to argue common sense to
new age, satanist, nihilist ect bs saying freewill doesn't exist, a tree falling doesn't make a sound.
calling it for what it is, @utism, just gets replies removed...
Except "magick" actually is real and dean radin and Tressoldi have done severa studies on that. Amerifat materialists are pathetic lol
How about deboonking videos were dorks who have visbly bad genetics make fun of fringe ideas to feel smart☝️
You've inadvertently created the world's greatest 23-minute advertisement for Gaia.
best comment here hahaha
I knew a women, called Mona, that believed in that shit and then died of breast cancer. Some esotherics like Gaia got her money and were happy. Evil little bastards! I really wish they would all die.
@@brokkrep what does ur name say
@@evergreen6638 brokkolirepublic deutschland
@@evergreen6638 I think you can figure it out with knowledge of the English language
Commenting on that Internet Historian video was an excellent marketing move. I’ve just binged all your stuff. I’m loving your shit.
I sincerely believe that the worst thing about Gaia is that it turns a lot of genuinely profound questions and insights into a clown show, so that even if some of it was worth considering most people will be driven hard in the other direction. Towards pure scientific materialism.
Which sucks because I really believe we are spiritual being having a human experience.
Love your content and love taking the piss out of myself too, so take everything with a pinch of salt. Love and light as the cliche goes x
That's a good assessment of Gaia. I get the feeling if Gaia was non-profit with the sole purpose of helping people, the teachings would be a lot more pure instead of endless watered down content for $$$.
@@bjscorpio4041 yes! And I love how this video hinted at this
Exactly there's nothing objective or scientific about it, and takes away people actually thinking for themselves and considering spirituality that can be consistent with scientific progress
I feel exactly the same way. I think the mind over matter, placebo effect and the theory of civilisations older than Sumeria are fascinating topics that the mainstream does not take seriously enough but the Gaia programs are just a piss take which reinforce the mainstream dismissal
I gotta say, this is probably the best episode of Ordinary Things. I knew Gaia is nutts, but this major in investigative journalism.
thanks! this message made my day 💖
Hello
Goodbye
SHE TOOK THE FUCKING KIDS JERRY, I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE!
It makes you wanna take a double take on your fellow yogi friend, and try to knock them back to their senses before they start saying the election was stolen.
I like how Gaia is so dangerous that UA-cam had to step in and add the Climate Change Wikipedia page to the video
Looks like they fixed it, but it's been immortalized in the desc
@@TiddyTwyster still there for me
It's still there, hilarious
They do that for anything that appears to discuss climate change and/or climate change denial, even if it denies or mocks the denial. Even if it's entirely factual and scientific and still doesn't fit the popular narrative (let's face it, especially so).
You should be aware that that occurrence has nothing to do with how dangerous Gaia is or is not. Those cards appear on any video that directly references certain topics such as climate change or vaccines
As a Boulder County resident, I am 0% surprised Gaia started here lmfao
ua-cam.com/users/shortsBmc9NFfhx74?feature=share
Yep, of all places it should be there. It belongs there. Can't you keep it contained though?! XD
Thank you for exposing this. I mean, I saw the red flags from the trailers, obviously, but it's always nice when someone willing to invest in uncovering does a debunk. What's really sad is what it has done to Eastern traditions. All this rubbish about energy waves and, well, you know. the galaxy brain garbage--it undermines the centuries-old wisdom of Eastern traditions. For those about to leap on me 'What wisdom...?' I'm not talking cancer denying, medicine-denying dangerous stuff, I'm talking about really helpful ways of dealing with mental health, of finding community. People/things like Gaia take our past, our history, and our traditions and scrape it through the dirt. They should be ashamed of themselves.
The beautiful thing about plato's cave is, that you never know if you just wandered into another cave.
Plato? Or Play dough?
So, one of my favourite Gaia contributors (both ironically and unironically) is Reuben Langdon.
Reuben is most well known as voicing and performing as Dante from the Devil May Cry series, beginning his career in entertainment as a stunt man for Japan's original Power Rangers/Super Sentai, before getting into mocap and voice acting.
Eventually he worked on James Cameron's Avatar, which was a long "shoot" with lots of downtime that he spent on early UA-cam, looking at conspiracy and UFO videos. He and part of the rest of the crew sighted a fleet of UFOs flying over the studio and thereafter he took the red pill. Following that he started engaging with the theory that UFOs are a psychic phenomenon that you can summon, got into the Wim Hoff yogic breathing method, and did a UA-cam series called "Interviews With E.T" were he interview channelled aliens (which is legitimately fascinating on an anthropological level).
Gaia bought that series (more recently renamed "Interviews With E.D") and he now seems to do some sort of partial exclusive series of it with them.
He's BIG into UFOs and aliens with a spiritual, vibrational angle, talking about raising global consciousness and all that new agey tilted stuff. But in the last 2 years he's also gotten into Q Anon, believe in the scamdemic, and god knows what else since I last checked in on him. Thankfully he's a legitimately lovely person, though I can't help but worry that will change with who he rubs shoulders with these days.
New age, conspiracy theory Dante? lol
Sounds like your typical controlled opposition agent.
Foolishness dante ufo are not real
interviews with erectile disfunction lmao
That sure was a rabbit hole and a half.
Crystals, in general, are pretty cool. I'm a particular fan of iron with a cubic crystal structure. No need to make up silly 'healing' aspects to crystals, they're neat enough on their own.
PHOSPHORS. Phosphors are the coolest effing property crystals can ever have, they store energy and then slowly release it over time as light, anyone who says glow-in-the-dark stuff isn't awesome has no inner child left in their cold withered heart.
I thought this when the crystal fad took off a couple of years ago. Totally agree with ya
I fuckin love those shiny lil rocks I collect them to stare at them.
Pirite?
(I'm currently a newbie geology student ar university)
crystals are just a representation of the different minerals the earth holds and how these minerals can benefit us. white women and astrologists turned it into some woowoo magic man shit. just like chakras are the main vertebrae’s in your spine. your spine has neurons that communicate to different parts of your brain. its not magic just science and biology
As an environmental scientist his misunderstanding of the lag between CO2 increase and temperature increase sent me. Literally a Google search away.
“There’s more red flags in that video than Tiananmen Square.” Bruh I fucking died
Just like several hundred students!
@@stevenyoung9738 Lmaoooo
@aadhi gei *Absolutely nothing* happened in tiananmen square in 1989, i do not have a gun held to my head by a federal agent.
If my grandma would speak english, this would be her favorite app.
each time grandma speaks a sentence in english you let her have 30 minutes on the app
@@themantheman2768 yeah. I bet that would be a great motivation for her to learn english :D
My father has it, he doesn't speak english but watches it with subtitles... he doesn't like subtitles and has to put it in 0.75 velocity
@@gergelysimon255 think you mean _could_ speak English, not "would speak English".
@@Eidolon1andOnly who cares
Samadhi ain't an "ancient Sanskrit word without modern meaning". I'm a Sri Lankan Buddhist and we learn it as just higher consciousness or concentration.
And it ain't Sanskrit. The original meaning of "Samadhi" in Buddhism comes from Pali. Later it was translated to Sanskrit by the Mahayana sect. The pronunciation is the same but it is widely believed that the translation caused a loss of meaning.
The point is at least these people could have got their info right and said Pali.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wait a minute, are you saying that the people who make these videos don't know what they're talking about?
@@AA-hg5fk Call me crazy but yeah :O
But dont you know that sanskrit is the oldest of all languages and the only way of conveying truth? :P
@@bluexephosfan970 And obviously the only liturgical language of the "Eastern World" as a whole.
I love language, and have an interest in Sanskrit, so it's always nice when I find one of the few people who still know it. I've always seen people use the word as some sort of vague buzzword that doesn't mean anything, and so I'm not really surprised that a litany of translations has eroded the original meaning.
7:57 - As someone who has written way too many papers on Plato in college, that scene made me laugh because I feel it was half a sentence... I feel the second part of the sentence was supposed to say something such as, "The only way out of the cave... is with a subscription to Gaia starting at..." in a soothing voice. I truly think something like that was in the original script.
Almost every ad I get on YT is Gaia, those guys REALLY want me on board. My favourite is the one where guy says: "the fetus, it is not human" with a heavy euro accent.
I mean considering YT ads are targeted, maybe re-evaluate what content you're interacting with?
@@jadesded gotten those Ads too... From watching people talk about history and evolution
@@luiscolin7775 That's the thing, I mostly watch scientific content with a hint of gameplays and "disturbing" content, must be that last one.
@@jellyfishi_ My friend...what?
@@davidlemos1136 schizo, probably
Nothing makes me happier than seeing an ordinary things video in my feed,
Thank you my good man, you’re a legend
My pleasure
"Why does the name Gaiam sound familiar?"
*looks over at the cheap yoga set I bought from Target*
"Oh....."
IT IS EVERYWHERE
Effing well done! I am a lifestyle medicine educator (ex nurse) and i went down the path of alternative medicine for awhile until i started to feel ‘icky’ about some of the things they were teaching. I looked around me and saw either snake oil salesmen/women or vulnerable, naive and desperate people. I was fortunate to find my way to LM and have never been happier.
I am still in the process of educating myself and am currently doing my graduate diploma in LM with hopes to do my PhD. Unless people face reality, any solution will not be effective. I love this video and applaud your research and message to help people see the truth. I nearly joined Gaia because it was targeting me but held off. Now I know what it is about I have zero interest in it.
Thanks!
What is LM and where can I learn about it?
“If you believe something hard enough, it’s gonna be a reality.”
40k Orks: WAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
I mean the red ones really DO go faster...
@@wolfgangervin2582 red is absolutely the fastest color
@@shakazulu301 But pink is the sneakiest, after all, have you ever seen a pink ork?
@@shakazulu301BUT DA GREEN WUNZ IZ DA BEST CAUSE DA ORKZ IZ DA BEST
The Laughing God approves.
Rule N°2 of this business:
Never go Full Gwyneth
Me: Wants to learn about yoga for anxiety
Gaia: Hey wanna learn about the fifth dimension?
Quantum Electrodynamics? Sounds good to me!
@Bakamalian the woo is stupid, but I just started yoga watching some lady on youtube, and its been really good for my half-decade sciatica.
Wasn't that a musical act?
Me: no but never gonna give never gonna let you down never say goodbye never tell a lie and hurt you
I honestly think this is the best video on youtube. It brings comedy and awareness together beautifully. I'll watch every Ordinary Things video, but for some reason I always come back to this one. Maybe it's that english snark of yours.
I clicked that notification faster than our Co2 emissions are rising
that's real fast. and strangely relevant to vid lol
@@OrdinaryThings i have watched all of your vids, i have gained access to my third eye and have powers beyond comprehension.
based
@@MILANESA344 i know
@@MILANESA344 on what?
Me: ugh, what a boring Sunday
*ordinary things drops video*
Yessssss
thanks for watching dude
@@OrdinaryThings are you and Ross going to drop another podcast soon?!
Imagine my disappointment when I realised this video isn't about the mid 2000's anime forum thing
That was culture at its finest, not galaxy brain garbage. You should have known better just by reading the title.
Same. Never get tired of deep diving that place
Bro same
Your videos are just so, so good my man! Thank you for the effort you put it.
I only have one energy center: The stomach. It can store several megajoules of energy.
Do you want another BLT, you tubby?
You transplanted your liver or something?
that's pretty good
The mitochondria is the manipura chakra of the cell
I'd call it an Energy Distribution Center, but ok.
Due to them you cant enjoy pretty crystals without being side eyed god
Just let me enjoy how pretty rose quartz is
Haha, right. Me carrying around quartz just like "ME LIKE SHINY ROCK". Leave me to my corvid tendencies, you fuckin' whack jobs.
@@Spamhard The goblin brain wants _rocks_ and if they are _shiny rocks_ even better.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Goblin brain gets what goblin brain wants.
And if I'm out on the beach looking for pretty rocks and old fossils, I'm not there to assign spiritual meaning to them, I just think they look cool and it's wild to think some of them could potentially be 10s of millions of years old. Rocks are cool enough without woo woo science added on.
@@Spamhard _Exactly_
THEY'RE MINERALS MARIE!!!
god, hearing joe say "we're not doomed by our genes" just reminds me of the stuff my grandma tries to push onto me. I was born with mitochondrial disease, I have a genetic disorder with no cure, but my grandma pushes this stuff on me saying "if you think positive things it could heal your DNA". Or telling me if I eat different foods it'll somehow fix my DNA in ways that leading medical research hasn't come anywhere close to.
It is true to some degree that your mental health ties into your physical health, when my mental health is doing worse than usual it does make my symptoms flare up more than normal. But what I tend to notice with the kind of things my grandma pushes is taking something that can be helpful, and then thinking that to an extreme will do way more than it ever could realistically achieve.
If it makes you feel better science is actually trying to do the things the woo-woo stuff is pushing, and they're investigating how cuttlefish can innately edit their own RNA to in turn tweak their genes. So maybe in a decade or two you'll get some reprogrammed cuttlefish RNA providing genetic therapy for your disorder.
But it's definitely not going to be "think you don't have it and eat this and you'll be cured" BS.
The age of gene-crafting super soldiers, huh, I mean removing genetic flaws like this is upon us.
Unless you come from a family from truly thriving people then it's not that surprising that you would have these issues. Living poorly has consequences. Not saying that's how it is, but in theory.
@souliisoul a mitochondrial gene mutation has nothing to do with how you or your family "are living". Considering it starts before you're practically living at all. Either his mother had it as well, or it was a random mutation while he was developing. And while there are certainly things you can do to decrease those risks, there's absolutely nothing you can do to reduce them past a certain background level.
@@chinobambino5252 Yep, I had it passed on to me from my mother that also had it.
There is nothing that could make me believe that the Universe gives a shit about me anymore or make me think that my life or anyone’s life is so incredibly important or have some divine purpose is so completely absurd and ridiculous to me on every conceivable level imaginable!
I’m not subscribed, but I am subscribing now. I’ve been getting into “that” community for some time now, about 6 months, this was just what I needed to help me out of it. Thank you
Welcome back dude. Glad to have ya back
Welcome back bro
Yeah they can easily getcha like that.
Back in the cagie wagie!
Ordinary Things’s hair gets more out of control each episdode
If you stare into the abyss long enough...
You think thats hair? Lol
episdode
I can't decide whether I love it or hate it.
He is the alien guy meme
Gaia is like some elaborate prank that the TOOL fanbase would come up with
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I'm going to sound like an idiot here - but what's the TOOL fanbase?
@@JackedThor-so not tools like to work with things, but the band TOOL. search them, kinda of a experimenntal rock or smt
@@gustavolemos5913 OH, ok. I've heard of them before - I know diddly about them though.
haha, yes, to test how gullible people are..... and then realizing the result is much more depressing than hilarious.
(TOOL fan here, by the way)
13:45 without question, the best original analogy ever conceived of, edited together, and presented on UA-cam. Nice 👍.
Yoga just teaches you to have a good diet, excercise regularly, read and learn regularly and meditate (contemplate deeply) on what you have learnt. Plain and simple. Good way to live a life.
@Andrei Hag Yog is not praying in the sense of Abrahamic religions.
Awful Pagan shit
@@Sexy_Goat Says the religion who couldn't keep a piece of their holy land.
@@tcroyce8128 it’s still praying
@@kentredwine9515 Yes, someone with no awareness of Yog will enlighten me about my own civilization. Classic saviour complex.
Meditated for 15 minutes with the mantra, "Don't let the bastards grind you down".
The Handmaid's Take is a good book
I do that as well but I bought a cinder block for punching to help with the concentration.
After watching 8 hours of Gaia my mind is so open that my brain is currently sitting in my lap after falling out of my skull. Send help.
22:37 what you said at the end is just great. I think people that watch GAIA don't want to think out the box, and put in some work to learn different aspects of anything. They would rather let their inner fantasies be hijacked by griffters.
its a weird thing to at once proclaim openness yet ferociously keep out legitimate science
You were slightly talking about cancer towards the end of your video and I guess UA-cam thought you were a spokesmen for it.. I have never seen so many cancer/cancer help ads in a UA-cam video before.. I hope everyone is okay
I got fancy potato chips.
Imagine if Gaia and goop started to work together gather
JonTron would have a field day
@@garystinten9339 lol
I'm surprised they aren't already.
Are they not?
Shhhh....don't give them any ideas
9:52 "when you went down to the centre earth, were you in shock" can you repeat that, cus I'm in shock
I actually had to repeat that bit a few times.
Nah, it's gonna be fine! (c)
ua-cam.com/video/TgQRKVaDa2U/v-deo.html
When he starts claiming theres sheets of ice down there I had an aneurysm
"we had to have thermonuclear protection for our.. you know.. Eyes* 09:52
This just about killed me :)
I watched Gaia for alternative medicine advice during a stay at a psyche unit. It worked perfectly! My mind was opened so wide that my lobotomy was canceled!
Did they told you that the lootomy was canceled after you woke up from the procedure too?
I dont know how to make this sentece in a way to suggest it happened to me also
As someone whose been in a Psyche Ward, how tf did you get internet access? /j
@Wolcik3000 Your sentence does a great job at conveying you have been lobotomied, lol.
Did they shove a crystal up your ass? That is known to cure all that ails you.
fire in the hole
“The brain responds better to energy signals rather than chemical signals.”
The stomach responds better to thought food than solid food.
I laught so hard when I heard that when you consider that brain signals and thoughs are only chemical signals that enable electricity to flow
Holographic meatloaf again? My favorite!
Go look up "Breatharianism" if you want to have a bad day
@@shadowssun1120 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
there's a thing called the placebo effect, then there's people that live in placebo world, it seems
I rewired my own brain, wasn't difficult at all. Getting the brain out was easy, the hard part was getting the brain out.
Wash and dry your mind prior to reinsertion
I've heard that somewhere before, but i can't think of what it was.
Do you mean "in"?
It's in Futurama, Prof. Farnsworth says it lol
hagaha
When I see Greg I'm reminded of River Tam's reaction in that scene when Shepherd Book pokes his head around the corner with his salad out.
Gaia has such good production value, that they seem much more suspicious and mysterious than the stuff they talk about.
The History Channel 👀
5:39 watch this again, but now you know that Gaia is the third most populous town in Portugal.
a.k.a. New Gaia (Vila nova de Gaia).
Gaia is a city in Portugal. the Southern side of Porto. it actually named the country
Gaia was called Calle, and today's Porto was the "port of Calle" the city was growing and ended up naming the county of "Portucalle" in the 12th century, evolving to Portugal.
Calle probably came from the Celtic word for "vilage" or for the name of the people that lived there. It also ended up naming Galicia, since portugal was just Southern Galicia.
Gaia named both Portugal and Galicia. almost the entire atlantic coast of Iberia.
There's a 99.999% chance of a bong being in your lap if you regularly watch Gaia
lmao bruh I'm smokin weed right now
@@TheGreatDrAsian same bro
Hey! Plenty of us who have bongs in our laps are completely normal, salt-of-the-earth people. I laugh at pseudoscience just like you do... except for the lizard person/hollow earth stuff, that is real af bro.
@@futurevegan8617 UAP's
@@TheGreatDrAsian joint tho right?
I enjoy your new age spiritual concepts of "reading a damn book" "unfucking yourself" and "not being a total goddamn idiot"
Define "unfucking yourself" if you please
@@everordonez9886 If you need it defined, you definitely need some unfucking ;)
☝️ if you do the 1st step you'll end up going through the second to the third no problem
@@A_Ducky Try our 3 step program, *_TODAY!_*
@@cidshroom
You added #4 - profit ??? in the meantime. Smooth move.
Great report, subbed.
There has been research that suggests that _even if a patient knows_ placebos can help. I'm not justifying these charlatans... It's thought that it boils down to the "good bedside manners" of a doctor helping a patient feel better. That calm you get from the village shaman's sense of confidence. 😁👍
Always listen to everyone, evaluate based on evidence and logic, and then sort correct from incorrect accordingly.
6:33 the dude implies here that the founder was born over 400 years ago so that's one point for the alien theory.
Yeah I was gonna say that was some bullshit
Damn, he’s an alien isn’t he.
The return of the KING! I love this channel!
I hate when people use the word energy signals because LITERALLY EVERYTHING in the universe is energy scientifically speaking. So if you're not being specific about what you mean by energy [chemical, physical, electromagnetic...] it means nothing
That hollow earth guy seemed like he was going to crack up any second during that interview.
The criteria you’ve laid out in this video for what classifies as a cult, seems to match behaviours of most Silicon Valley tech start up employees 😄
Person: Has cancer
Gaia: Think it away
Person: Dies
Gaia: Not my issue
Can't leave a bad review if you're dead
Gaia : now you are reincarnated in India.
Person : Fuck!
I 'thought' some very serious stomach issues away. Maybe not the best first course of action but if medical intervention isnt working you can impress your body into a state of health with continuous reinforcement
Person: has cancer
Hospital: use chemo-therapy
Person: Dies precisely from the chemo
Hospital: Oh it didn't work you're also dead.
I do think Gaia is a scam. However, I would blame capitalism for the repression of natural cures and other modalities of treatment
You're thinking of the Book "The Secret" lmao
remember, if there's an alternate medicine that works, it's called a medicine
What about psychedelics out right curing depression lmao. Stop being so arrogant
@@theredgoblin562yup lol
@@theredgoblin562
Ah, yes I'm sure that happened, you're just a big brained genius smarter than any other human being to walk to Earth.
@@theredgoblin562 Because psychedelics definitely aren't hazardous in any way, shape, or form, they don't often affect a wide variety of people in an even wider variety of ways, can't permanently alter brain chemistry, aren't abused by a shitload of people who just want to trip balls, and there's definitely not a metric ton of pseudo-spiritual horseshit already attached to the psychedelic movement that's just ripe and waiting to be manipulated by the right grifter. _Totally._
Look, bro, I like tripping balls on shrooms as much as the next guy, LSD too, but pretending that a powerful brain trip is the same as receiving legitimate medical care isn't just _personally stupid,_ it's hazardous info to spread to all the other gullible people out there. Yes, there is a decent amount of data to support the idea that psychedelics _might_ prove beneficial in the treatment of _certain_ mental illnesses, but: (1) *Definitely* not all mental illnesses. (2) Those studies still need to be researched further, preferably by more than one institution/group, that way a group with an agenda (either for _or_ against) doesn't just coincidentally reach a result that they clearly wanted to from the start. (3) Drug culture _pretending_ that psychedelics are a magical cure-all is a downright dangerous lie to spread. (4) Even if they do prove to be beneficial, it would be when prescribed _alongside_ proper psyche therapy and professional medical supervision.
The placebo effect fan have a massive impact on certain areas of medicine. Especially with pain management, obviously cancer isn't one of those areas. There's a podcast called hidden brain (not pseudo science) that talks about the placebo effect that was really fascinating
Placebo effect really hinders creation of new medicine for Big Pharma - when the new drugs are wokring on the same level as placebo but with side effects
Placebo effect absolutely does work, to a certain extent.
@@devilhunterred but only if u truly believe it'd help, any shred of doubt makes it less effective
you gotta be completely delusionsal for it to truly work
@God no it doesn't require you to be delusional for placebo effect to work, it requires you to be deceived. If a doctor gives you a sugar pill and tells you it's Advil, placebo effect strongly suggests the sugar pill will still have actual benefits to your body.
@@God-ch8lq I guess its not that delusional if it truly works?
I honestly think one of the main selling points to this type of spiritual woowoo is escapism. I once knew a girl whom I tried to help and give advice to on her life issues and I knew she was into this kind of stuff. Talking about astrology, energy crystals, tarrot cards and what not. It later became apparent to me that she had a habit of running away from her responsibilities and problems and I think she used these things as an escape. After all, knowing there's "something more" to the world let's your current real life issues seem a little less significant. She also used it as a way to have a feeling of control over her life where she otherwise didn't. She practically based her life off of her astrology horoscopes and she believed every person's characteristics were determined by their star sign. I guess another selling point would be a sense of meaning. Finding a legitimate reason to work and to continue to live in the modern world while being completely atheistic or taking everything at face value might become rather depressing for some people, and that's why so many people flock to religion and spirituality to gain a sense of meaning.
Very well said. I've noticed that people who claim to be "witches" are usually compensating for a lack of control over their circumstances and choices, while people who succeed in their social environment (i.e. the popular regular folks) don't seem to have much use for witchcraft...
Lazy cowards, albeit harsh, is basically what they are. For example, meaning is subjective and ascribed. I find that understanding the nature of things to be far more fulfilling than seeking self-delusionment
The demons that housed themselves as a guise of her personality got to her and made her believe in this garbage. Only way truly to help her to guide her to Christ and scrub every surface deeply... nothing that "religion" could ever do.
As someone who grew up with a "psychic mother" and my parents actually had the nerve to teach that garbage to thier children. You hit the nail on the head.
Edit: she was a Wiccan witch too btw.
I agree with everything you said. Recently my fiancee has been getting into this, talking about "the matrix", the "reptilians", channeling aliens, etc. All the conspiracy theories that Gaia has to offer. It's causing issues in our relationship because she says I'm not "open minded". I'm open minded, but I believe in spiritualism, science, and things that are grounded.
The things she talks about are absolutely insane. I don't know what to do.
“ bonus point for strange jewelry and weird facial hair” immediately got a kohl’s ad with the exact same guy.
i'm currently being bombarded with gaia ads in youtube 😅