It is not difficult to find boasts of "theory" dotted around in New Age ramblings, as in Donald Watson's often comical "Dictionary of Mind and Body":
"The theory behind pattern therapy is that certain shapes can focus the earth's electromagnetic waves or more subtle energies to produce particular effects."
A more honest word would be fancy.
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