The Science of Spirit. Part 2
By: Seeker
In the New Age movement, there appears on the surface to be little coherence. Anyone interested in finding a new way of life is faced with a spectrum of ideas and methods for achieving it that ranges from the subl;ime to the truly ridiculous and even to the downright dangerous.
People convinced they were heading for a personal Nirvana willingly took the cordial in Jonestown, dying for their belief. Others suicided so they could get picked up by the spaceship travelling behind the Hale-Bopp comet. People in Waco managed to find a way to so scare the authorities they got attacked by the FBI and died in bullet-storm and fire.
So trying to find a new way can be hazardous to one’s health. What does seem, to me at least, common among the ones that have shown as dangerous is they lead towards severing contact with others. When I look at the groups involved, they appear to be concentrated on exclusivity and being special, rather than reaching out for greater and closer contact with others or the universe around them.
Like the fanatical among the various religions in the world, these are people who are pulling in their horizons, finding ways to see themselves as having a special relationship with their beliefs and so losing contact with reality. This makes it easy for someone to guide them into paths that are low survival ways to live.
It seems to me that any New Age life, any development in the path to enlightenment or a better future, must necessarily involve breaking down barriers, needs to open the individual up to greater contact and involvement, rather than limiting them to a specific set of thoughts.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:34 am
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