It was an unseasonably chilly night for June in Los Angeles. About three dozen people, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, were spending their Friday evening lying on yoga mats on the back patio of a shop a few blocks from Hollywood Forever Cemetery and the Paramount Pictures lot. Attendees had been invited to bring whatever they needed to make the space cozy: Blankets. Pillows. Crystals.
“I know this work is weird,” Lilia said of her breathwork practice. “But it makes me feel better and that’s why I keep doing it.” Drag queen candles on display at Mostly Angels L.A., a spiritual shop in Beverlywood that also sells crystals, incense and tarot cards. “This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said. “You’re seeing an aggregation of disaffiliation, people coming up with their own meaning-making and their own personal spiritualities.”
Young people have grown up contending with a major recession, climate change and a more general awareness of seeing a political and economic system that many feel hasn’t benefited them, Nicholas said, so it’s not surprising that they’re pushing back against those systems at the same time they’re exploring nontraditional religious beliefs and finding ways to integrate it all.
morgfair Huh? Who are these millennials?
Please, more articles about Millenials!
I saw a poll that 22% of millennials have no friends. You actually meet alot of good people at church. Or look at your phone and pray to rocks. Atleast churches do potlucks and feed people. My church always has donuts.
For those who love crystals, just remember that mining and harvesting them is bad far the environment.
Happy Birthday to me!
I think it depends on how you define 'religion,' because astrology, tarots, and magic crystals can be a self-made religion, especially since they don't appear to be Wiccans, they're picking and choosing.
This is Back to the 70’s. None of this is new. It all comes down to what or who you trust. Trusting your own instincts will guide you so not to be lost or owned by others. It applies to religion and all of life.
Uhm. My mom did that in the 70s.
Heal your way with Love in your heart! You will find your way! I learn every day! I take one step at a time towards truth and healing!
Yessss. This is me! Raised Catholic, now a mishmash of pagan practices and beliefs, including astrology.
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