How I Freed Myself from New Age Spirituality
It is no secret now that religion holds you back, this is something many of us know. So, we are starting to turn to a seemingly more personal form of spirituality. But this “spirituality” seems to be looking a lot like religion. In my opinion, this new form…
Addressing the Womens Wisdom Circle Pyramid
I didn’t know when I joined that it was a pyramid scheme. I thought it would help me
pull myself out of a significant amount of difficulty and help
me find my voice in the community.
I left as soon as I was capable of going. It wasn’t easy.
Two Takes on New Age, with an Introduction
Like the Renaissance Hermetism that hoped to restore peace and sanity to warring mankind, the New Age movement is
ecumenical, undogmatic and pacifist. But if the New Age is all about awakening, why does it put me to sleep?
Taking a Leap of Faith
In the
documentary Kumaré, director Vikram Gandhi poses as
a guru with a small group of disciples (his film crew) who seek out and commune with an amazing cast of spiritual teachers in the Sedona desert of Arizona. Here Gandhi discusses the film and what he has learned about why people flock to such unlikely characters for spiritual insight.
You Are Only As Old As You Are: The Six Noble Truths of the Zap Philosophy of Aging
Now that it is politically incorrect
for age to be a number, apparently my age is based on how I feel. But how I feel
is always changing. So let's take off the beer goggles of
you-create-your-own-reality, New Age wish-fulfillment thinking. You are
as old as you are and what people
really mean by aging is something far more serious and
tragic than age.
The New Age Pentecost
I was visiting a classroom of undergraduate Philosophy and Religion students talking about ayahuasca shamanism this past November. The question was posed to me, “Is ayahuasca a new religion?”
New Age Fundamentalism
Growing up in the evangelical church and studying ayahuasca the past six years, I've seen how religious doctrines can turn into roadblocks in our relationship to God and each other. The new age movement is a young, innovative religious development on the planet, and we can avoid the trap of fundamentalism if we carefully study its implied doctrines.
Shit or Shinola?
The approach to 2012 is causing emergent new age nuttiness and is fast vanquishing all traces of reason and critical thinking in many people…
Nostradamus and 2012
It's instructive to see how the 2012 prophecies have been
manipulated by mass culture. Nearly all of the
2012 visionaries see the date as a harbinger of a new and enlightened
consciousness for humanity, but the wizards of television have transmogrified
this vision into something that looks very much like a fundamentalist's Last
Judgment.
