"new age person"

definition, please

recoverer wrote on May 1^st, 2009 at 1:01pm:

new age person

who: you and others
what: not clarified

To me, new age means information or teachings that are beyond traditional sources.  Just as one example, the Bible was the source of teaching for Christians and Jews for many centuries.

We all date things based on our own experiences, but I remember the fuss when Bridey Murphy was hypnotized and reported that she had led many lives prior to her current one.  Reincarnation became very popular in the media and a big subject of conversation.

Then, at some later point, channeling became in vogue.  Ruth Montgomery had her "guides" who gave her information via automatic writing.  Among other things they assured her that there would be radical upheavals prior to the year 2000.  The earth, they said, would shift on its axis, causing earthquakes and floods and millions of deaths.  Very few places would be safe.  Western Canada was one such place.  People actually relocated to Saskatchewan.

And around the same timeframe came other channeled material, including Seth, ACIM and a host of others.

And the bandwagon caught on.  I imagine there are tons of channeled entities right now saying all sorts of things.  

But new age thought is not just limited to religion or spirituality.  Its influence is in medicine, food, exercise.....you name it.  Some of it is good, some of it is just plain bogus.

Unfortunately, we now live in a culture that is seriously lacking in something that used to be valued and used to be taught: discernment.

We seem to have lost the ability to discern.  We gobble up whatever the latest guru or medium says.  If a guy says he's conversing with God, we don't critically examine what he says.  We jump on the bandwagon with gusto.  We drink the kool aid willingly.

Conversations with God is a book riddled with inconsistencies and outright contradictions.  It's not a surprise that Walsch has been exposed.  It was just a matter of time.

True learning is hard.  Takes time.  Takes effort.  These days, that's too much trouble.  Far easier to listen to some disembodied entity who tells us to chill out and not to worry, there's no such thing as sin.

Seductive messages like that always attract the gullible part of the population.  This part, by the way, is expanding exponentially.  Not a good omen.

R

 

Hi Bets-

I like the virus and mold analogy!  

I would probably compare it more to a fad.  Sort of like the colon detox mania that is sweeping the tv commercials these days.

But seriously, as I said, there is both good and bad in it.  It boils down to a matter of discernment.

I would disagree a bit with your characterization of new age stuff as a "field of knowledge."  It is way too fluid and contradictory to represent a field of knowledge in the same way as, for example, nuclear physics.

It is more of a mulligan stew.  There is something in it for everyone. If I don't like what Seth says, all I have to do is turn to Elias. These two highly evolved characters have quite contradictory messages about things.

There really is no unified field in new age thought.

But it's sure entertaining!

If pie is involved, I'm there.....

Channel Einstein?

Heck yeah, no problem.

I already have the book Einstein, all I have to do is pick out some passages, re-do them somewhat, and then I'll have Albert down pat.

Come to think of it, no one has channeled Lincoln or Washington.  Kind of strange when you think about it.....after all, if Jesus can be channeled, why not some of our well known historical characters?

Hmmmmm

R

REgarding 'channeling' Lincoln--

Does anyone know where on the web  there might be an interactive facial documentation program like they use in forensics ? They measure bone structure so that diet and ethnicity doesn't show much.

I'd like to put Obama and Lincoln in it to see if bone structure -wise, they are similiar. 

Bets

<<I thought all you enlightened New Agers knew!...Barack Obama's previous life on Earth was Abraham Lincoln! Carl & Family>>

So this is what passes for enlightened thought these days?

R