New age beliefs make a lot more sense once you understand that their definition of a “healthy” human being is superhuman. There is a general belief that all humans are , at all times, being poisoned by the myriad excretions of modernity, which dampens our superhuman abilities. These can be regained through a ritual purification of consuming seed oils and whatnot. The core of the new age is the invention of a lack that then needs to be filled.