I am not addressing my beliefs vs. someone else’s beliefs, and I’m definitely not claiming that my beliefs are somehow superior to another’s beliefs. In fact, I’m saying nearly the opposite: When unsupported claims are made, one unsupported claim is no better than any other unsupported claim.

If you can explain to me, in a rational and plausible way, how soaking in a tub of bicarbonate and visualizing golden orbs is more effective in casting out evil spirits from the body than an aluminum foil hat with a coat hanger energy deflector, then I will be willing and able to modify my beliefs about how our physical world actually works.

So whether it’s bicarbonate baths, golden orb visualization, a Catholic exorcism, an aluminum foil hat with coat hanger energy deflector, cloves of garlic worn around your neck, quartz crystals held over your third eye, or anything else you can imagine or invent, you cannot claim that one method of evil-spirit removal is better than another without some objective support.

I agree that a nice bath with sea salt might be calming, but the advice given was not given as a prescription for achieving calmness. It was given as a prescription for “protection from outside influences of any sort”.