The fragmentation of family life damages personal identity and can lead to a catastrophic loss of self-worth. This promotes promiscuity and the inability to form meaningful relationships. Melanie Phillips

These characteristics of irrationality and mind control made Eastern religious manifestations particularly attractive both to totalitarian movements of the Left and of the Right. Which is why the embrace of meditation, mindfulness, and other such practices reflecting “spiritual narcissism” isn’t just a harmless absurdity but part of the West’s ongoing cultural tragedy. Melanie Phillips

According to a study by Dutch researchers, practices such as mindfulness and meditation that are supposed to make people less judgmental and egotistical actually make them more self-centered and narcissistic. Melanie Phillips