yeah, there's a difference between talking about things like "positive energies" or "vibes" or whatever you wanna call it, which is an actual real thing even separate from any spiritual mythologial new age nonsense, and then on the other hand there's straight up woo shit, which honestly is home to some of the most capitalist predatory soul seeking leeches I've ever come across. SO much shit from healing crystals to salt lamps to fortune reading and other methods of divination are straight up scams to take advantage of the most desperate people who are at their worst, telling them exactly what the want to hear (regardless of how true or incorrect or even damaging it is) to feel better in the moment, for a price of course. One of my friends worked at a psychic hotline, and they had so many stories of shit like a woman spending away her life savings and retirement because she desperately wanted a baby but was having fertility issues, and would spend hours and hours on the line just to have someone tell her about how her baby is "right around the corner" and all the lovely things its gonna do as it grows up and how amazing it'll be. Honestly in some cases its no different than a drug dealer trying to get someone hooked on their product so they'll have a steady stream of income.

Really, we'd all be much better off if part of our education addressed propaganda, deception, manipulation, cognitive biases, and common fallacies and the like. So much woo shit plays on very basic fundamental things like hindsight bias, the barnum effect, confirmation bias, apophenia, survivor bias, and the like, that much of it turns from mystically profound to embarrassingly predictable just by having knowledge of the existence of those kinds of thought mistakes.