I think its called 'New Age' because that is the age that we are moving into, 'The Age of Aquarius' and we are in the process of a consciousness shift an end of the way we are doing things now and moving into a new spiritual era. People commonly use the date 2012 which is the end of the Mayan Calendar. Of course many on this site know this but for some reason this wasn't mentioned in the description of what is new age. Its clear to me that if you call yourself a new ager you must be aware of 2012 prophecy and the research and study that compliments the prophecies.

I am reading a book called '2012' by Daniel Pinchbeck, very good book. If you can get your hands on it You should read it with an open and attentive mind. The author explores the mayan prophecy through a study of both spiritual and scientific explanation with what he claims will lead to the shifting of human consciousness.

"New Age cronies:"
Webster: "those trapped in a Ghetto mindset that prevents them from exploring radically different perspectives and from checking their silly claims against the findings of acknowledged experts in the disciplines relevant to their claims.
When threatened by alternate views, they huddle together and sycophantically affirm each ofher's views as if that makes them right and create gross caricatures of their intellectual adversaries (just as you see here).  In short, "New Age chronies" are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they still stab at their opponents with degrading ad hominems, little realizing that their dull blades can make no dent. 

Don
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What can I say Don? Except that sho 'nuff, the PRIESTS, PREACHERS, and CHURCHMEN of traditional Christianity, are the TRUE FOUNTS of Wisdom herself - both worldly and metaphysical!
What GLORIOUS WISDOM churchmen have shown! Like the time that pious gaggle of wise, wise monks flayed the mathematician Hyapatia with abalone shells back in 415 A.D., thus ending the last of pagan thought in the city of Alexandria. (She was a "New Age Ghetto" type, being a Neo-Platonist and all that.)
Or how about a decade or two before that, those wise, wise bishops incited the monk hordes to swarm in from the desert, and burn what remained of the Library of Alexandria. What an achievement! I'll bet you wish YOU could've been there, Don! But it's not too late you know... our modern-day religious zealots might be able to destroy the INTERNET as a free information exchange medium, and thus protect the purity of our children's minds! (Another dream of yours, Don? After all, without the Internet, a lot fewer people would know about alternatives to preachers, priests, and churches...)
We could have the MIDDLE AGES AGAIN!!! (I'll bet that makes your little hamster-jimmy get stiff, just thinking about it - eh, Don old boy..?)

B-man

hey, I just found out this morn I'm an angry mother Theresa

The book title is spookily like another book.

   
"Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle" by Stuart Wilde 

check it out at Amazon


Who is Roy Klienwachter?

I guess it it just a coincidence....