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Supernatural Spa's

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CNN - Supernatural Spa's

I find it hard to comment. After reading the article it seems that in some cases they are just dispencing sound advise along with a bunch of "hippie-dippie-do stuff".
Martin advised the client to stop running from negativity and find a way to learn from bad things. She pointed to a card -- the Queen of Cups, thought to signify balance and harmony -- and suggested the client's home life could improve with work.
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Take away the tarrot card and this might makes sense. I suppose some people just like to have the "supnernatural" reforcement before taking good advise.

What frightens me is when these same people accept that same "supnernatural" reforcement to take bad advise...
 
At Juve the Spa in this north Atlanta suburb, patrons can get a metaphysical add-on to any spa service, such as a $100 tarot card reading or a $175 one-hour astrological consultation.

For $200 an hour, you can talk to an American Indian shaman at Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California.
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Heh. It's right there in the name. SHAM-an.

Look at those prices! They are so tempting me to cross over to the dark side. I mean if people are THAT freaking stupid to pay that much money...

Geez, hookers are cheaper, and they know what to say to make you feel better, and they go better with a backrub. Come on!
 
Whispering Waters Day Spa in San Antonio, Texas, offers $70 "Polarity Therapy" sessions, where patrons work with a healer to align life energies.
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Polarity therapy.

Polarity Therapy!

I'm going to lose it. I can't take it. I feel a need to start a business offering "Mantra Adjustments." $350. Tonally fine tune your mantra to maximize transcendental contact with the planetary meditation grid. Here, hold this rock (only $49.95, two for $125) and repeat after me,

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
 
It's unfortuanate, but it can be very difficult for a spa to compete, without offering various 'alternative' therapies, or adding some voodoo to their product descriptions. I can't think of any high-end spas in town that are woo-woo free, though I would definitely support them if there were any
 
Luke T. said:
Polarity therapy.

Polarity Therapy!

I'm going to lose it. I can't take it. I feel a need to start a business offering "Mantra Adjustments." $350. Tonally fine tune your mantra to maximize transcendental contact with the planetary meditation grid. Here, hold this rock (only $49.95, two for $125) and repeat after me,

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
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I'm sorry. You simply cannot adjust a mantra. Might I suggest you open a practice on adjusting and manipulating Chakras instead? ;)
 
For $200 an hour, you can talk to an American Indian shaman at Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California.
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Grrrrrrrrr........

OK, is it just me (if it is, please-oh-please tell me) but does anyone else get upset when they hear the "shaman" stuff?

Maybe it's just my experience and background, but 99.99999 times out of a hundred the "shaman" is some upper-middle class white guy or gal, most likely never been to a rez, or maybe visited once, who took a bunch of NA-sounding stuff, threw it together, and called it "shamanic."

I really hate the way the newage movement has totally co-opted NA beliefs and spirituality and turned it all into one big pot o' nonsense soup.

Lynn Andrews has sold more books than all NA authors combined.

(read more here, here, here, here, and here.)

(Yes, it's a huge peeve of mine.)

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On-topic, well, all I can ask is what do you expect? Most spa-goers are at least semi-woo. Basic economics of supply and demand...
 
Supernatural spa's what?

The article appears to be about supernatural spas.

Yes, I'm a punctuation nazi. These things do matter, dammit! I'll put up with it in a post, but not in a thread title.
 
Supernatural spa's what?
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horrific effect on the human spirit.

I started writing something like that and missed the edit. I have a blind spot for apostrophes. I know it’s incorrect and I humbly apologize.

Luke T., if you ever go to the dark side you might want to keep the hooker angle. “No officer, she’s not a prostitute. She was adjusting his polarity. Look, it put him right to sleep.”

So how much is the full release Mantra Adjustment?

Nex, I think you’re right. There are a lot of people willing to cash in on the guilt that many Americans feel about the way Natives were treated. For just $200 you can stop feeling bad about stealing their land. Never mind it’s probably going to an “upper-middle class white guy or gal”.

There was a South Park episode where Cheech and Chong voiced “shamans” selling Cherokee hair tampons and other nonsense. Poor little eight year old Stan gets punished for daring to ask what past mistreatment has to do with their knowledge of medicine. It was a great episode that I wish could be part of the JREF archive.
 
Ah, we have here the famous Caroli Health Club. There enough links in English to get an idea what happens in there. Name it; they offer it: Reiki, Reflexology, Rassoul, Aromatherapy, Ayuverda, Pressure Therapy, F****** therapy (well, not that actually - it would be the only useful thing).
 
Ohmer said:


There was a South Park episode where Cheech and Chong voiced “shamans” selling Cherokee hair tampons and other nonsense. Poor little eight year old Stan gets punished for daring to ask what past mistreatment has to do with their knowledge of medicine. It was a great episode that I wish could be part of the JREF archive.
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South Park is great for stuff like that. That episode was hilarious! I like that it was aimed at health food stores in general as well.
 
Ohmer said:
There was a South Park episode where Cheech and Chong voiced “shamans” selling Cherokee hair tampons and other nonsense. Poor little eight year old Stan gets punished for daring to ask what past mistreatment has to do with their knowledge of medicine. It was a great episode that I wish could be part of the JREF archive.
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*hee hee* I remember that episode. :D

I think a good portion of South Park should be part of the JREF archive-- they've done a bunch of good skeptical ones.
 
I was just at the spa yesterday for a facial, and it seemed to consist mainly of aromatherapy and essential oils. I don't think the girl really knew anything about skin, to tell the truth.

I think it would be fun to send a dermatologist in for one.
 
jmercer said:
I'm sorry. You simply cannot adjust a mantra. Might I suggest you open a practice on adjusting and manipulating Chakras instead? ;)
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No, no, no! If you chant your Mantra off-key, you will never align with the Planetary Meditation Grid properly, and run the risk of tuning in to the Transcontinental Negative Vibe Generator in Randi's basement by mistake and ending up with bad skin.
 
Pixel42 said:
Supernatural spa's what?

The article appears to be about supernatural spas.

Yes, I'm a punctuation nazi. These things do matter, dammit! I'll put up with it in a post, but not in a thread title.
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Actually, it's arguable whether it's wrong. According to my source, if a word which is foreign in origin ends in a vowel then the correct way to make it plural is with an apostrophe and an 's'. Of course you could argue that "spa" has been in use in the English language for sufficient time to be considered indigenous.

The word spa comes of course from the Belgian town of Spa.

- the punctuation Uber-nazi
 
The Don said:
Actually, it's arguable whether it's wrong. According to my source, if a word which is foreign in origin ends in a vowel then the correct way to make it plural is with an apostrophe and an 's'.
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What source is that, the "Greengrocer's Guide to Grammar"? :D

It's not been acceptable since the 19th Century. "This usage was correct once, just as it was once considered correct to drink tea from a saucer" - Cassell's Guide to Punctuation

Although mind you it's easy to have some sympathy with it if you don't want to risk having the word pronounced "spazz".
 
richardm said:
What source is that, the "Greengrocer's Guide to Grammar"? :D

It's not been acceptable since the 19th Century. "This usage was correct once, just as it was once considered correct to drink tea from a saucer" - Cassell's Guide to Punctuation

Although mind you it's easy to have some sympathy with it if you don't want to risk having the word pronounced "spazz".
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Looks like it's the same source. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt and suggesting that the writer of the article may be somewhat out of date. I'll get me (frock) coat.

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Though I'm in Scotland at the moment so regardless of apostriphication it's pronounced spazz
 
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