Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 23:00:51 +0100 From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Of Wrong Sorts & a Lost Leader was.Re: BHA: Realism and latent theology Hi Gary Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au> writes >But such prejudices apart, I venture to say that the New Age movement is >not a monolith. It does of course contain its charlatans (not like the >Marxist Movement!). Yet it also at its best represents a response to the >spiritual needs of today. Of course New Age is not a monolith, and of course there are positive things in it (it's even articulating a 'new paradigm' nowadays which usefully stresses relationality, processuality, etc). The question is whether this is what EW emphasises or whether, as I find, it emphasises many things thoroughly ideological about New Age: the narcissistic deification of the self; voluntarism and idealism re social transformation; and anti-science and anti-Enlightenment. It even seems to endorse the whole gamut of New Age methodologies for accessing the spiritual dimensions of the cosmos: astrology, astral travel, numerology, etc - you can even move your consciousness up and down the galaxies like a cursor. I can only advise waiting till you've read the book, Gary, so you can judge for yourself. Mervyn -- Mervyn Hartwig 13 Spenser Road Herne Hill London SE24 ONS United Kingdom Tel: 020 7 737 2892 Email: mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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