Shirley MacLaine

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'''Shirley MacLaine''' {{lived|1934|}} is an [[American]] [[author]] and [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning actress who became a [[New Age]] [[woo]]-meistress in the 1980s.  Her books ''Out On a Limb'' (1983) and ''Dancing in the Light'' (1986) helped popularize New Age beliefs, from [[reincarnation]] to [[channelling]].  Some of her subsequent acting roles have been based on her status as a New Age [[guru]]. 

==New age beliefs==
MacLaine promotes a lot of various new age beliefs in her books. These are a few notable examples:

===Reincarnation===
MacLaine claims that she has lived several past lives in many countries, including one in [[Atlantis]] where she was the brother of the spirit [[Ramtha]].<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm9wsOd4WbI| Shirley MacLaine: I can remember a past life in Atlantis | TODAY]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.se/books?id=tzEdpR4gizsC&dq=shirley+maclaine+ramtha&source=gbs_navlinks_s| Paranormal claims: A critical analysis] p. 2</ref> She holds the view that [[karma]] is influential when it comes to reincarnation, something common in [[Hinduism]], which many New age beliefs 
steal
 borrow ideas from. She took it to extreme levels, however, when she said that [[antisemitism|the Jews may have]] [[blaming the victim|done something horrible for the Holocaust to occur]], [[Stephen Hawking]] [[blaming the victim|subconsciously wanted ALS]] and other horrible victim-blaming in her book ''What If…: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know For Sure''.<ref>[https://www.inquisitr.com/1849094/shirley-maclaine-holocaust/| Shirley MacLaine Suggests The Holocaust Was A Form Of Karma]</ref>

===Alternative medicine===
Aside from promoting [[metaphysics]], she has also promoted [[alternative medicine]] in various books, such as ''Sage-ing while age-ing''. In the same book, she also supports [[transcendental meditation]].<ref>[https://books.google.se/books?id=JxIW1CPeaxkC&dq=shirley+maclaine&hl=sv&source=gbs_navlinks_s| Sage-ing while age-ing]</ref>. 

===UFOs===
MacLaine has written about UFOs witnesses<ref>[https://books.google.se/books?hl=sv&id=JxIW1CPeaxkC&dq=shirley+maclaine&q=medicine#v=snippet&q=ufos&f=false| Sage-ing while age-ing, UFOs]</ref> and she believes that [[aliens| they]] want to save our planet as it disturbs the rest of the universe, or some other bollocks that is unsupported by science.<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tVWsYK3U4c| Shirley MacLaine: Extraterrestials and JFK]</ref>

==Quotes==
"I think Cher was right. You ''are'' an asshole!" - Shirley MacLaine to David Letterman, after Letterman poked a little too much fun at her New Aginess.

==External links==
*[https://shirleymaclaine.com Official website]
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/ Shirley MacLaine on IMDb]
*[https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/02/902-shirley-maclaine.html?m=1| Encyclopedia of American Loons: #902: Shirley MacLaine]

==References==
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