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New Ager

noun as in free spirit

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I had fun spending the day with Brandi, a wholesome New Ager serious about dance, and writing her story.

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Like mine, standing in heavy rain, ankle-deep in mud, while a stoned New Ager emptied his bowels next to me.

As a longtime exponent of meditation, as well as a practitioner of the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Harris has a side to his character that, by comparison with his three collaborators, makes him look less like a New Atheist than some Californian New Ager.

Perhaps a more sure-footed writer would have stuck to his psychedelic guns, remaining inside the visionary logic of the experience, but when I tried to write it that way, the narrative lost all friction, making it impossible for anyone but a mystic or psychonaut or ardent New Ager to grab hold of it.

The scenes between her gun-crazy New Ager and Olin’s elegant antihero require none of the overstatement that otherwise prevails.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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