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i think it's more likely that it sounds technical but allows space for woo-woo ideas to flourish. the keyword used "vibrations". then "quantum".


Other words they like are "reflection", "expansion", "compression". These are fundamental, abstract, semi-monadic terms that allow the user to bootstrap an abstract theory. A little bit of "insight" (aka linguistic rearranging) and I've got a theory out of nothing. How does it work? Well, reflection and recursion of course. None becomes one becomes many. Can't you see the structure?

It feels a lot like logical razzle dazzle to me. I bet if I'm on the right neurochemicals it feels amazing.


Vibration, frequency, quantum, energy. All things I've seen as well.

There's a somewhat significant group of people that are easily wooed by incorrectly used technical terms. So much so that they are willing to very confidently use the words incorrectly and get offended when you point that out to them.

I think pop-science journalism and media has a lot of the blame here. In the search to make things accessible and entertaining they turned meaningful terms into magic incantations. They further simply lied and exaggerated implications. Those two things made it easy for grifters to sell magic quantum charms to ward off the bad frequencies.




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