Tagged with New Age

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. (more)

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?” (more)

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. (more)

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. (more)