Many New-Age “hippie” communities are grounded on principles of love, community, and justice, and therefore, are commonly thought of as being liberal or progressive. However, history shows that “right-wing extremism is very
linked to New-Age Western spirituality.” For example, in Nazi Germany, occult beliefs largely overlapped with
fascist beliefs in that they “[picked] and [chose] beliefs founded on pseudoscience in order to support their worldview.”
Hitler and other Nazis used alternative medicine, practiced yoga, ate vegetarian diets, and identified with anti-vaxxing, while simultaneously authorizing experiments on prisoners in concentration camps for research.