I’m mostly referring to new age type stuff , and meditation and western yoga, eastern philosophy, hippies , etc. Any countries where none of this is common at all?

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  1. Atleast in my circles it’s fairly common. Especially in recent years I’ve noticed more and more people getting into astrology, crystals, tarot cards and other shit like that. Religion and spirituality as a whole are still on the decline, but that sort of new age stuff isn’t that out of the ordinary (once again, atleast in my circles).

  2. In Iceland not so much. Maybe like a hundred people in total are into yoga for non-exercise purposes, ayahuasca, new age philosophies, etc. and they are generally just regarded as weird or deluded. Older women are sometimes into tarot, astrology, and tea leaf readings but that’s usually just for fun and not serious.

  3. Not common here at all in my personal experience. Only know of two aquaintances who are “spiritual”, one of them I think is odd in general, and the other is just completely nuts, but hey, if it makes him happy. I mean full on unwashed dreadlocks, mostly barefoot, has been a year or so living in a jungle in colombia and has been backpacking India for well over a year now and posts self made documentaries on how the modern lifestyle is toxic level of spiritual.

    Yoga might be more common but as an excercise, not to open some kind if third eye.

  4. Not a massive amount here in Palermo,in my experience.

    There are people who practice organised religion of course,and many people who don’t..or at least,the only time they see a church is weddings and funerals.

    I know a couple of ‘spiritual’ yoga groups here but many of the participants are foreigners.Its not common practice for local people.

    There are plenty of ‘superstitious’ people but that tends to be an individual thing here I think,not a group or public practice.

  5. Met some people like that in Norway, mostly university age. One of my friends kept asking me for advice about doing some more serious Buddhist learning, I suggested going to USA or UK because they accommodate better for English speakers, but he insisted on wanting to go to Nepal or something where the abbot barely even types English, because he doesn’t associate USA with Buddhism. (For context, one of the major branches of Taiwanese Buddhism has a large temple in USA, the area it is in has around 600k Buddhists)

    They seem to really want to talk to me about it because I am Asian, and Buddhist/Taoist. I don’t really believe in the supernatural parts of my own religions though, along with most taiwanese people my age, I just go for the food/parties.

    I think less common with 30+ age group.

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