How to effectively critique New Age ideas?

[Confused Ape]

And there is Deepak Chopras brand of quantum woo, healing crystals, Uri Geller and people making shed loads of money from a load of bollocks.

Have just found this about Eugene Wigner

He became interested in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, particularly its ideas of the universe as an all pervading consciousness. In his collection of essays Symmetries and Reflections – Scientific Essays, he commented "It was not possible to formulate the laws (of quantum theory) in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness

He had good, scientific qualifications (from the introduction to the above wiki article) -

Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner, ForMemRS[1] (Hungarian: Wigner Jenő Pál; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995), was a Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician.
He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles

Here are two living qualified physicists who are into New Age things.

Amit Goswami is a retired professor of physics who has the view that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of existence. I've linked to his page on Amazon so people can click on the links to his books to see what they are about. I suspect that this is where a lot of New Agers along with Deepak Chopra are getting their information from.

Fred Alan Wolf

Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness.

His theories about the interrelation of consciousness and quantum physics were described by Newsweek in 2007 as "on the fringes of mainstream science."[3]

At least traditional religion has some class, some ancient tradition, a bit of intelletual philosophy.

Traditional religion can be very dull compared to what physicists come up with.

PS: Just an an idea about the best way to critique New Age ideas. If anyone has a degree in physics they can challenge Amit Goswami and Fred Alan Wolf.