Quote:If what I concluded is true, does it bother people that one of key leaders of the new age movement is as Walsch is? If not, why are people so passive about all of this? Why do they allow the misleaders of this World and beyond to get away with what they get away with?
The so-called New Age Movement is about as organized as the Occupy Wall Street movement has turned out to be, and represents quite an amalgam of ideas. I also think of the phrase "new age movement" as SOOO twentieth century! Kind of like bell bottoms.... I am grateful to the movement for creating a space where many different ideas could/can be openly discussed and different lifestyles lived openly, or at least more openly.
passive about this..
most people I know don't even know who Walsch is. I forget, you live on that other coast! it is different here in the east. Maybe that is why I have a different perspective. I really don't have that in my day-to-day life.
allow Misleaders of the world to get away wth what they get away with...
when i came in to work tonight, my Muslim coworker who is from a middle eastern country was watching scenes from the funeral of that guy who just died in North Korea. We were expressing amazement, in different ways, of the way the North Koreans were mourning the loss of the dictator they saw as a father figure. How could they cry at his death??? Though we come from very different backgrounds, my coworker and I could agree on how strange that was, but also express some understanding of how brainwashing works.
I don't think we have a good understanding of how the psyche works..I'm in the cave trying to make theories based on seeing shadows....there is something we all need to experience at some time or other in giving too much credence to a person who has clay feet.
At the same time, don't we all want to be in the presence of someone who is transformed? Energy is contagious. I was reading something just yesterday about why the guru system works at all: because sometimes there is transference of energy from teacher to student. The Christians use this too. Even the Protestants. When the deacons were ordained in my church (mundane Presbyterians) there was a laying on of hands. It took me a long time to understand that that was supposed to be a literal transfer of the experience of the Holy Spirit from the person doing the ordination to the person being ordaned. I think sometimes it actually works. That is enough to keep the practice going.
So maybe what these people who have been giving money to these authors think is that they will get the energy this way. Maybe what they have to learn is that you can't buy it that way.
What I don't get is that you have had all these incredible experiences and yet you still seem to be so limited in certain ways. I guess that just means it's a long climb to the top of the mountain.