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You may very well be right. Good luck, though; there's so much overlap between colourful "healing" rituals and theatre, I doubt anyone could impose regulations on such concepts without being accused of trampling on freedom-of-expression and/or -religion rights. Let's face it: In a free society,
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From a scientific standpoint, Chakras are the points in the Human
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Personally, I'd be much more concerned about creepy, wealth-obsessed sociopaths convincing vast hoardes of undereducated voters that they give two cents about anyone's interests but their own. But I digress, probably. –
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