Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 03:35:22 -0400
From: lynne engelskirchen <lhengels-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: Of Wrong Sorts & a Lost Leader was.Re: BHA: Realism and



The most interesting part of the recent discussion -- and this is saying a
lot because there have been all kinds of interesting things said -- for
those of us poor souls who live over the seas has been the snippets of
quotes from the book itself here and there.

Why don't those of you with the book take the trouble to give us long
paragraphs you find particularly significant as reflecting the argument or
the positive or the negative or the astounding, etc.  If everyone with a
copy would give us a favorite paragraph or two I get the idea there would
be plenty to chew on.  Perhaps that would help, Mervyn, until we can read
the book.

Howard




At 11:00 PM 6/10/00 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>
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