New Age Comes to Midtown

Oh joy, there goes the neighborhood. We can't have a new convenience store where this reporter can get his beloved smokes and pork rinds, but New Age is in - as in a brand new 'spa and full service salon' specializing in nonsense like aromatherapy and natural healing. That's what's going in where Breads and Spreads was located on Third Street until it closed a few years ago. 

Officially, it will be called Emma's on 3rd. That sounds innocuous enough until you research further and discover it will be run by one Emma Newman, an "Ordained Minister, Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, healer, teacher, business mentor and spiritual advisor." The lady also is the founder of "The Appalachian Institute of Awakening."  

God save us from pseudo-religion and pseudo-science. According to her website, Emma has amazing abilities as she "completes the circle of body, mind and spirit work offering anointing with sacred oils, and laying on of hands." Want to learn more? Here's her website - http://www.emmascenter.com/about_us  

Is the Enlightenment coming to an end?