Pierz Newton-John
1 min readApr 29, 2024

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I’m not sure if you read my article on The New Age. It’s a very focused and specific critique of The Secret and associated doctrines. There’s some passion there because I consider it a harmful movement. Not everything New Agey but what I think of as spiritual consumerism. Now as for your articles on Sabian Symbols and such, you probably don’t know I wrote regularly for The Mountain Astrologer back in the late nineties, so I am not ignorant on these subjects. However I don’t see anything in there that in any way proves we are in a simulation. Even accepting your evidence at face value, I would consider it evidence of synchronicity — meaningful connectedness — but not of the simulation hypothesis. I’ve had many critical engagements with people with widely divergent beliefs from my own and generally found the results to be unsatisfactory for both parties. Nobody’s view changed and much energy was expended. Scientists won’t engage with you because their assumptions and training in what constitutes evidence are simply too far from yours. They know there’s too little common ground for dialogue to be fruitful. I’m more philosopher than scientist (I’m professionally neither). I have no issue with your project and I wish you well.

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Pierz Newton-John
Pierz Newton-John

Written by Pierz Newton-John

Writer, coder, former psychotherapist, founding member of The School Of Life Melbourne. Essayist for Dumbo Feather magazine, author of Fault Lines (fiction).

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