The New Age is one of the most influential forces shaping modern culture today — especially as it relates to women. From tarot cards and astrology to crystals and manifestation, this dark amalgamation of “paganism, the occult, mysticism, and elements of religions like Buddhism and even Christianity” is beckoning millions into darkness that presents as light, warns BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie warns against two New Age concepts that are rapidly gaining popularity: star-seeds and spirit children.

Most New Age propaganda, Allie explains, presents itself neutrally in forms like “self-help,” “self-love,” or “self-healing,” which is why so many Christian women are lured in. But in the biblical worldview, the self is the problem.

When people get that backwards and place “the god of self … on the throne, our desires take the driver seat, no matter the cost,” Allie warns, giving the example of how a woman’s autonomy is often the justification for abortion.

This belief that one’s personal desires justify any action, she explains, is rooted in an ancient idea now popular in New Age thought called “pre-existence” — the claim that the soul existed before this life and chose its body, family, and main life circumstances in order to grow through those chosen experiences.

Star-seeds and spirit children are deeply tied to this framework.

According to New Age thought, a star-seed is a soul that didn’t originate on Earth but supposedly came from another planet, star system, or dimension and incarnated here to help awaken or advance humanity. Similarly, a spirit child is the soul of a child that supposedly exists before conception and may even choose or communicate with its parents.

These ideas, Allie argues, are perversions of scriptural truths.

“This idea that you existed before, that you are special, that you are chosen, that you have this higher calling … those are counterfeits of what we are told in Christianity and a perversion of what we’re told that you’re made in God’s image, that you were chosen by the God of the universe before the foundations of the earth,” she says, citing Jeremiah 1:5 and Ephesians 1:5.

But even people who don’t buy into star-seeds and spirit children can still be affected by the same ideologies, Allie warns.

“You start to see how even if someone doesn’t believe in a star-seed, how this idea of children having this kind of divine authority about them can affect and justify how people see parenting and good and evil and abortion and all of that,” she says.

She gives the example of a “popular liberal deconstructionist influencer” who justified her abortion by saying that she had communicated with her unborn child, who apparently validated her decision to abort it because it would “come back” one day.

She then plays a clip of Dr. Maria Rothenburger — a therapist and psychic medium — claiming that aborted children are “often totally understanding” of their parent’s decision to abort them. “Sometimes they’re quite loving, and they want to convey it’s completely fine,” she said on a podcast from 2022.

“Imagine … how anxiety-inducing that would be if your morality and your choices are dependent upon a voice that you hear in your head that you’ve attributed to the soul of the baby inside you rather than just going to the word of God,” says Allie.

“This is simply a justification for sin and a way to build a callous on your heart against sin, but a spiritual one,” says Allie.

In addition to “pre-existence,” secular dualism — the idea that the soul and body are separate entities — is also fueling much New Age thought.

In this belief system, Allie explains, the soul is defined heavily on feelings and how one wants to identify; it’s seen as the “true self” that is superior to the body, which is treated like “a bag of bones” or a “vessel for the soul” to live in.

“So what you do to the body really doesn’t matter that much within this worldview of secular dualism because the soul is the real self, and the body is kind of just arbitrary,” she says, noting that this ideology is often used to justify transgenderism.

Christianity, however, teaches something very different about the body and soul.

“Christianity teaches that the body is the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, that we were made bodily in the image of God. … We read that in Genesis 1:27, and we read that this body is ours to steward. One day there’s going to be a resurrection of the body. That’s how much it matters,” Allie emphasizes.

“Our bodies are living sacrifices to worship the Lord, so we reject this idea that who we really are is defined by our feelings on the inside [or] by this kind of loosely defined spirit. We are identified by both body and soul as His image-bearers.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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On August 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed Chapter 188, “An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care,” changing state law governing abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy. The new law removes the previous list of specific circumstances and allows a physician to perform an abortion based on the physician’s professional judgment.

I understand that heartbreaking medical situations exist, and those families deserve compassion, dignity, and excellent care. But the law also raises a larger question that America cannot keep avoiding: While government works to expand access to abortion, are we working just as hard to expand a woman’s ability to choose motherhood?

Saying ‘choose life’ is only the beginning. We must be prepared to answer the next questions.

I founded Auntie Angie’s House because I have met women who did not need another political argument. They needed help.

Some needed a safe place to live. Some needed food, transportation, prenatal support, or help getting back on their feet. Others simply needed someone to stand beside them long enough to believe that an unexpected or difficult pregnancy did not mean their future was over.

Today, Auntie Angie’s House counts 101 babies whose mothers chose to continue their pregnancies with support from our work.

That number means more to me than any slogan ever could.

One hundred and one babies means 101 individual lives, 101 stories, and 101 reminders that what looks impossible in one frightening moment can look very different when a mother is surrounded by real support.

This is why I believe the abortion debate is incomplete.

We hear constantly about protecting “choice.” Then let us be serious about creating choices.

A woman should have the choice to keep her baby without becoming homeless. She should have the choice to continue school or work. She should have access to prenatal care, transportation, child care, food, safe housing, and postpartum support.

She should not feel that abortion is the only answer because she is poor, alone, frightened, or unsupported.

If we truly trust women, then we should trust them enough to invest in every option available to them, including motherhood.

That is the model we have tried to build at Auntie Angie’s House. We do not serve women by shaming them. We meet practical needs so that fear does not have to make the decision.

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Our work was recognized by Fulton County with a proclamation declaring May 1 “Auntie Angie’s Day.” I am grateful for that recognition, but the real accomplishment is the mother who arrived afraid and later held her baby with hope. It is the woman who realized she was not alone.

Government should learn from those stories.

Imagine if every state that devoted political energy to expanding abortion access brought the same urgency to maternal housing. Imagine if pregnant women in crisis could immediately access temporary housing, prenatal care, job assistance, and postpartum services.

Imagine if no woman felt pressured toward abortion because she could not see a financially survivable path to motherhood.

I am pro-life, but I also believe the pro-life movement has a responsibility beyond opposing abortion. Saying “choose life” is only the beginning. We must be prepared to answer the next questions: Where will she live? How will she eat? Who will help with the baby?

Massachusetts has made a policy decision about abortion after 24 weeks. People will debate that law from every political and moral direction. My challenge is broader: If lawmakers believe women deserve support in making difficult pregnancy decisions, then support cannot begin and end at the door of an abortion provider.

America should make an equally powerful commitment to the woman who wants to keep her child. I can point to 101 reasons why. At Auntie Angie’s House, those reasons have names, faces, mothers, and futures.

The next woman facing an impossible decision deserves to know there is another door she can walk through. She deserves more than a political talking point. She deserves help.

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A night out at a club ended with a Florida man suddenly feeling extremely tired and “funny” after bringing a woman home — and later discovering his nearly $100,000 Rolex was gone, according to police. A woman was arrested as investigators examine four other Miami-Dade cases involving similar allegations, including one alleged victim possibly being drugged.

Lynda Mae Crouse, 32, was arrested last Friday by a Seminole Police Department officer in Hollywood while responding to an unrelated trespassing matter, according to an arrest affidavit People magazine obtained.

One of the alleged victims in Miami underwent toxicology testing and tested positive for zolpidem — a prescription sleep aid taken orally to treat insomnia.

Police said Crouse was arrested on an outstanding Broward County warrant and was transported to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office jail.

Crouse was charged with second-degree grand theft, which is a felony, and released the following day after posting $2,500 bond.

Crouse met a man at the Carousel Club shortly after midnight April 12, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Hallandale Beach Police Department.

The Carousel Club is a 14,000-square-foot, open-air entertainment and hospitality venue located trackside at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach.

The pair exchanged Instagram account information before going their separate ways, according to police.

Then the man ordered an Uber vehicle to pick up Crouse from the woman’s home less than two hours later to bring her to his residence, according to an affidavit Fox News obtained.

Once Crouse arrived at the man’s home, the two consumed several alcoholic beverages in his living room, according to the document.

The man told police he went to his bedroom to change clothes when he suddenly began feeling “funny” and “extremely tired,” the affidavit stated.

According to the affidavit, the man heard a distinct “clapping sound” coming from the living room while Crouse was alone.

When he returned to the living room, Crouse was “acting different” and abruptly announced she was leaving, the document said.

The man said he fell asleep within minutes of her leaving.

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He awoke several hours later and told police during a sworn recorded statement that he still was feeling lingering effects of an unknown substance, according to the document.

The man told police he checked the Rolex box in his living room and found the watch was missing.

The affidavit said the alleged victim provided police with a signed appraisal for the watch — a gold 40 mm diamond-bedazzled Rolex Presidential featuring baguette diamond hour markers — that valued the timepiece at $98,400, according to the affidavit.

The man identified Crouse in a six-person photo lineup, according to the affidavit.

The man did not seek medical treatment, and a toxicology test was not performed on the alleged victim.

Investigators believe Crouse used a similar scheme on at least four other occasions in Miami-Dade County, police said.

The affidavit said Crouse targeted men wearing expensive watches at bars or nightclubs, then went back to their homes or hotel rooms before the alleged victims discovered their watches were missing.

One of the alleged victims in Miami underwent toxicology testing and tested positive for zolpidem — a prescription sleep aid taken orally to treat insomnia.

Investigators noted that the effects described in that case were similar to those reported by the alleged victim in Hallandale Beach.

A judge ordered Crouse to have no contact with the alleged victim.

Police said the investigation remains ongoing.

The Hallandale Beach Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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Some still remember when Google defined itself by a simple motto: “Don’t be evil.” When Google reorganized under Alphabet in 2015, the new parent company adopted the somehow less confidence-inspiring, “Do the right thing.” Another phrase with a lower bar also made the rounds — “to organize the world’s information” — but rest assured, that was never the motto. It was simply … uh … the mission statement.

Anyway …

The AI doomers’ strange brand of apocalypticism is: Let’s create an evil god so we can save the world from it.

It took until this week for some of the most powerful voices in tech policy to circle back explicitly to a prime directive: Avoid hellacious acts. For that, thank the AI doomers, whose strange brand of apocalypticism — let’s create an evil god so we can save the world from it — finally breached technology insider-dom and splashed across the political timeline.

The high-stakes soap opera has, as usual, deeper currents than the news feed can convey. But the key development is that the White House and its allies moved at warp speed to establish a few basic touchstones that take us back to the good old days of not being evil.

Trump has received most of the attention for memeing his stern-looking self above the caption “Americanism, Not Effective Altruism!” But his vice president captured the matter in a single line that’s tough to beat. “If you’re building Frankenstein,” he said, “stop!“

Note the emphasis. Trying to build an evil god — for instance, one with a statistically nonzero chance of wiping out the human race — is fortunately still considered axiomatically evil. But JD Vance’s reference underscores that trying to build a “new man,” even with the best of intentions, is also evil.

According to the doomers, the best way to save the world from evils they might create is for the rest of us to give them some form of planetary governing control. Vance endorsed a more commonsense approach: The best way to spare the world from evils you’re responsible for is to … not do them in the first place.

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The vice president may, like every one of his predecessors in living memory, carry a pronounced partisan identity. But his folksy-clever line echoes in anti-doomer rhetoric now blaring from the industry’s rooftops. Microsoft, of all places, recently published its own rulebook for what not to build. On X, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman promoted the new “Humanist AI Code of Conduct,” which insists AI “is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness. It should,” Microsoft avows, “be engineered to avoid representing as though it has feelings, subjective preferences, or intrinsic motivation.”

Microsoft also flatly states: “We reject the pursuit of legal personhood, or the idea that models might deserve welfare, or be entitled to rights.” No Frankensteins here!

Or rather, no Frankenstein’s monsters — which means no Dr. Frankensteins running amok in the lab.

At Palantir, outspoken CTO Shyam Sankar made a similar point in a 2025 interview. “I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart with AGI,” Sankar said.

“The people who have religion are the most skeptical” of the doomers’ build-a-god-and-save-the-world-from-it thesis — which, yes, does itself resemble an inverted religion. For “the people who are kind of transhumanists,” Sankar concluded, “it becomes what they wish were true.”

Even Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, not known for Bible-thumping, recently struck an economic note with more than a whiff of spirituality.

“If we’re not confident about the safety of the products, like all companies … if you build a product or a service and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don’t release it,” he said. “And so that’s a very obvious thing to do. You pace yourself until you are confident you’re releasing something that the market would appreciate. The market forces are already there. We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations.”

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Translation: Hear a little voice in your head, or more likely, your heart? Whispering, “No, this product is bad”? Don’t take it to market.

Turns out, you can just not do things!

Of course, Huang’s logic is a bit deceptive. We would like to believe the market will punish bad people for taking bad things to market, but that is not always how it works. As we speak, present-day Dr. Frankensteins are transplanting human brain organoids into mice engineered to lack most of their cerebral cortex, allowing the human tissue to occupy much of the vacant space and wire into the animals’ nervous systems.

No, doctors! Bad! Evil! Don’t!

Except they are. In the end, it matters that people examine their own hearts for evil before looking elsewhere and pointing fingers. But spiritual insistence alone will not keep society on the rails. It is not enough to scowl at our mad doctors, however good their intentions, as their creations erode the boundaries around our sacred human bodies and being — supercomputers or no.

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Every place has its own language. I don’t mean accents or vocabulary. I mean the unwritten rules that tell you how people see the world. I grew up in the South, where sarcasm is practically a sacrament and no good story should suffer from a shortage of embellishment.

Montana speaks differently.

Even the humor has a Montana accent: direct and to the point.

People here don’t waste words. They tell you what they know and leave the rest alone. We’ve been coming to this valley since the 1980s and have lived here full-time for more than seven years, long enough to know I’ll never stop learning Montana.

One of the first pieces of advice I received was, “Drive at the speed you’re comfortable slamming into the ditch at.” Direct and to the point, particularly in winter.

Our tiny town used to consist of a post office and a combination bar and restaurant. Then the bar burned down. That left the post office as our social center, where neighbors catch up on the news, solve the world’s problems, and occasionally create new ones.

On my way to Bozeman, I stopped in. After chatting with friends by the postal counter, I said, “I’d better get going. I need to pick up Gracie’s prescriptions.” Without missing a beat, our postmaster asked, “Would you mind picking up some Imodium for me?” The group chuckled as I said, “Sure.” Even the humor has a Montana accent: direct and to the point.

A few days later, Montana spoke again. Our cabin can be seen from the county road, nearly 10 miles from pavement. My father-in-law’s house lies above us, hidden among the pines. People don’t end up there by accident.

Our son Gray was cleaning his grandfather’s garage when an older pickup came winding through the trees. It stopped when the occupants spotted him. The older passenger leaned out the window. He was missing enough teeth that you noticed before he finished his first sentence.

“I’m looking for Don,” he said.

“There isn’t a Don here,” Gray replied.

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The man muttered that it had been a long time since he had been up this way and figured he had gotten turned around.

Then both men got out of the truck. The younger man was every bit of six-foot-four. Gray felt the hair rise on the back of his neck. His pistol was nearby. With bears and mountain lions plentiful around us, that was nothing unusual. But Gray never reached for it. He simply eased back a step and watched. The older man seemed perturbed. The younger man said nothing.

Without another word, they swapped places in the truck and eased back down the driveway toward the national forest. Gray immediately called and said, “Dad, I think they may have been casing the place.” I called the sheriff’s office to see if they had heard about these fellows. After dispatch took the message, I watched the truck come down from the forest and idle on the road in front of our cabin. Then it headed down the mountain. Soon afterward, the deputy called. I repeated the story.

The line went quiet. Finally, he said, “Well … we’ve got a fellow who goes around looking for Don …”

I waited. “But he’s usually over in the Pony area.” Pony sits on the other side of the mountain. Same county. Different side of the range.

Another pause. “I wonder if it could be the same guy.”

Every Southern instinct in me wanted to go full Bob Newhart. “Y-you … you think?”

Inwardly, my Southern commentary was still running. How many “looking for Don” fellows do you have around here? Is this some kind of franchise, and has this guy wandered out of his territory?

Instead, I held my tongue and answered in my best broken Montanan. “You know … it might be.”

The deputy happened to be driving up our road and offered to intercept them. Since they were already heading down the mountain, I declined. “We’ll handle it if they come back,” I said.

No lecture about escalation. No reminder to stay inside. No warning to leave everything to trained professionals.

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Just one word. “OK.” Direct and to the point.

After 35 years in Nashville, I never imagined telling a deputy, “We’ll handle it,” or hearing him agree. He assumed I could exercise good judgment. If I needed help, he’d come. Until then, he trusted me to handle my own place.

That economy of words defines the humor, the advice, and the lifestyle. As another election season pulls us into its riptide, we could use a little more of that.

I’ve watched people move here because they wanted to live in Montana, only to try to make it more like the place they left. I’ve found it’s better to let Montana change me. Out here, help isn’t just around the corner. You prepare, pay attention, fix what you can, and exercise good judgment because the nearest help may be 30 miles away. You also help your neighbor, especially if Imodium is involved.

And if those two fellows ever wander back up to our place? Well, after 35 years in Music City, I’ll know exactly what to tell them.

They’re looking for Don in all the wrong places.

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When Nick Freitas engages with young men, they often have the same complaint: The culture made them the scapegoat for its ills — and now they feel lost and don’t know what to do about it.

While he doesn’t deny young men’s predicament or blame them for it, Freitas does put the responsibility to do something about it on their shoulders.

The truth, he says, is that the institutions that shape the culture deliberately broke young men’s spirits by convincing society that masculinity was “bad, evil, toxic, horrible, and [needs] to be repressed” and then turned around and sold the young men they villainized toxic escapes, like social media, gaming, and pornography.

The path to a fulfilling life is still there, though — but it’s theirs to find and take.

On this episode of “Rufo & Lomez,” Freitas and fellow BlazeTV hosts Chris Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman talk through why so many young men have checked out — and why reclaiming faith, family, and responsibility is the way back.

It’s both “confusing and horrific” for young men, he adds, to try to make it in a world where they’re “emasculated” in order to be more acceptable to a culture that will reject them regardless.

The message so many young men receive today, says Freitas, is: “By the way, even after you’ve been emasculated, nobody’s going to want to sleep with you … corporations don’t want to hire you either.”

“So once you understand that they have legitimate grievances that are truly unique to their experience, well, now we can start to talk about, OK, how do we deal with this?” he continues.

Dealing with it, however, begins with rejecting the “escapes” offered by the same institutions that villainized men in the first place. Doomscrolling social media, pornography, and video gaming, for example, may offer temporary relief, but they ultimately prevent men from finding the fulfilling path they desire.

“One of the big things that I tell men is that look, I get my identity first and foremost through my Christianity. Why? Because it’s eternal. … I always have identity, meaning, and purpose. I never lose it, and it cannot be taken away from me,” says Freitas.

When the culture inevitably condemns a Christ-centered identity, it’s men’s job to say “screw the culture” and continue to “pursue” what is godly, he continues.

“Ultimately, if young men choose to do that en masse, the culture will follow,” Freitas says. “The reason why there’s been such a push not just to diminish men but to elevate women is because it’s the only way you can’t get self-correction.”

Choosing the righteous path, however, is no easy thing.

“There’s pain involved in doing that,” Freitas acknowledges.

“You will be punished in society for doing that, but the more people who do it and the more critical mass you reach, the more things shift.”

Already, the tides have begun to turn.

Freitas cites an NBC News Decision Desk Poll of 18- to 29-year-olds that compared Trump and Harris voters on what they consider a successful life.

“The number-one thing for young men that voted for Trump was having a family; it was number six for women,” says Freitas.

Male Harris voters, however, placed family in 10th place, while female Harris voters put it in second-to-last place.

“That really gives me encouragement,” says Freitas.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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