A NEW AGE IS COMING

New Age, Christianity and the Anti-Christ Agenda

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While esotericism grew, its major representative, theosophy, suffered significant setbacks. In the s Blavatsky was accused of faking miraculous events associated with her contact with the Ascended Masters.

In the early 20th century the Theosophical Society was hurt again, this time by a series of sex scandals involving its leaders, and Besant was personally embarrassed by the defection of Krishnamurti in Nonetheless, the society was a significant catalyst in promoting public acceptance of the notion of psychic reality and conducted a program to raise awareness of other religious traditions among its members and the predominantly Christian general public.

In American theosophist David Spangler moved to the Findhorn Foundation, where he developed the fundamental idea of the New Age movement. He believed that the release of new waves of spiritual energy, signaled by certain astrological changes e. He further suggested that people use this new energy to make manifest the New Age. Returning to the United States in the mids, Spangler became the major architect of the movement.

He presented his ideas in a set of popular books beginning with Revelation: The Birth of a New Age and attracted many leaders from older occult and metaphysical organizations to the growing movement. The collapsing psychedelic movement also provided new supporters, including spokespersons such as noted psychologist Richard Alpert, who, like Timothy Leary , was an advocate of the use of hallucinogenic drugs to achieve mystical experiences.

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Alpert, however, found enlightenment in India, and returning to the West as Baba Ram Dass , he disavowed the drug experience and advocated more traditional spiritual disciplines. Simultaneously, periodicals were published to disseminate information and to create a sense of community within the decentralized movement. As the movement grew, bookstores opened that specialized in the sale of New Age books, videos, and meditative aids.

The New Age movement united a body of diverse believers with two simple ideas. First, it predicted that a New Age of heightened spiritual consciousness and international peace would arrive and bring an end to racism, poverty, sickness, hunger, and war. This social transformation would result from the massive spiritual awakening of the general population during the next generation. Second, individuals could obtain a foretaste of the New Age through their own spiritual transformation.

Initial changes would put the believer on the sadhana , a new path of continual growth and transformation. Traditional occult practices e. Transpersonal psychology an approach combining Eastern mysticism and Western rationalism to understand psychological health and spiritual well-being and other new academic disciplines that study states of consciousness encouraged the belief that consciousness-altering practices such as Zen meditation could be practiced apart from the particular contexts in which they originated. The movement also spoke to the sick and psychologically wounded, especially those who had been unable to find help though traditional medicine and psychotherapy.

Aligning themselves with the Holistic Health movement—which advocated alternative and natural healing practices such as massage , natural food diets, chiropractic , and acupuncture—believers in the New Age promoted spiritual healing. They also sought the integration of older divinatory practices astrology, tarot, and I Ching with standard psychological counseling.

Two transformative tools, channeling and the use of crystals, were identified with the New Age movement as it peaked in the s. Many New Agers discovered their psychic abilities and became known as channels. Either consciously or in a trance, they claimed to establish contact with various preternatural or extraterrestrial entities who spoke through them on a wide range of spiritual, philosophical, and psychological topics. When we do something extraordinary and exquisite emerges. At dawn on 14 th February the day dedicated to St Valentine, the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the seventh house of relationships.

And Jupiter and Mars are aligned in Aquarius in the twelfth house of spiritual transformation. Forty years ago, the intuitive words of a song called Aquarius , brought the dawning of the new age into our collective awareness: When the Moon is in the seventh house. Then love will rule the planets. At dawn on 14 th February the Cosmos actually embodies this perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of love and peace and dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

The Aquarian chart of 14 th February reveals an incredible concentration of cosmic influences blending with the energies of Aquarius in the twelfth house. Expansive Jupiter and energetic Mars are aligned with the higher purpose of the North Node. The presence of Chiron the wounded healer offers us the opportunity to heal the schisms that have separated us for so long.

Neptune emphasizes collective humanitarian movements and the co-creation of social justice. And the presence of the radiant Sun enlightens the entire alignment. Mercury also in the twelfth house but just beyond the cusp in Capricorn, allies with transformational Pluto to communicate and anchor the Shift throughout our global structures and institutions. Venus in Aries in the first house energizes and empowers dynamic co-creativity. And whilst Saturn the great task master in opposition to Uranus the unexpected awakener is suggesting an ongoing confrontation as the dregs of the unsustainable old paradigm reluctantly give way to the untested hope of the new, their placements in Virgo and Pisces brings practical altruism and visionary inspiration to the transition.

In whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may choose to align with7. Please feel free to circulate the Aquarian chart and its cosmic invitation to birth the Age of Aquarius. With love, joy and gratitude in the universal heart,. Terence and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape advance an idea derived from studies of primitive shamanism and psychoactive drugs that our universe is created by the holographic interaction between two hyper-universes , and the Universe if cyclic and recurrent. Based on extensive computer modelling, they think that humanity will experience a Resurrection into the Light during six days in Ad when, in the last minutes, eighteen barriers, comparable to the appearance of life, the invention of language or the achievement of immortality will be experienced, thirteen of them in the last millisecond.

Jose Arguelles discovered a system of cycles based on the ancient Mayan calendar and determined that the year would be the end of the year Baktun of the Transformation of Matter, the collapse of global civilization with a following era of information and crystal-solar technology and galactic synchronization. Adrian Duncan proposed the Aquarian Mutation chart, a horoscope for the aquarian transition, being the time when Jupiter and Saturn are conjunct in Aquarius for the first time since AD 21 December , The Tibetan Djwhal Khul , speaking through Alice Bailey , stated that the Fourth Ray comes into manifestation in , bringing qualities for preparing the discrimination and balance required for the intellectual and emotional refinement of humanity.

Humanity will the be able to function more completely on the intuitional plane. Rudhyar in The Lunation Cycle.

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There is a disagreement over this and the following date in Rudhyar's work. Dane Rudhyar determined that the last precessional Age of Pisces began in BC and since a world age is years, the official Age of Aquarius begins in this year. He considered that the last 10 percent of each age is its Seed Period during which its influence will begin to be felt and experienced.

He mentions that in a young Persian prophet announced the end of the Islamic era and the beginning of the New Age, the avatar of which would announce himself some nineteen years later. One of his original followers proclaimed himself Baba u llah Glory of God the Expected One, And , in the planet Neptune was also discovered. Rudhyar believed that the new cycle had already started to release it spiritual-archetypal energies, which are now making their way downward into manifestation, producing a radical upheaval of public institutions focusing around the time of the massing of planets in the sign Capricorn, the ruler of large-cale political organizations.

This would constitute a 'rite of passage' for all humanity and, in the destruction of existing and faulty ways of perceiving and organizing the world, humanity would discover a new way of life. Gordon Strachan in Christ and the Cosmos follows the standard precessional age of years using the birth of Christ as his datum point. Based on his mathematical analysis of the Great Pyramid passages, Morton Edgar set this date as the completion of Christ's Day of Restitution when the world will have gained all it has lost throughout history.

Edgar Morton stated that in this year, forty years after the preceding date, the Redeemed Race will experience to the full the glorious liberty of the children of God, with complete dominion over the Earth. The dates and attributions stretch all the way ahead to Robert Hand 's use of precessional movement combined with the actual size of the constellation Pisces in the sky, to arrive at the date of AD , and beyond to the year It is clear from the preceding that the date of the entrance into the Age of Aquarius is anything but definite and it would seem that almost everyone has his or her version of the exact point.

It is certain that the transition is in the process of taking place and it will have a great impact upon all humanity. The following month, the great solar eclipse will take place. Joan Sckrabulis has written a great book about the eclipse , called The Lost Covenant. Here is another image taken from TV! On the Discovery channel's coverage of the eclipse there was some live footage from Bucharest that Resource Notes - From e-mail posts and writings - to be compiled into this Greens' founding document, the "Ten Key Values" statement. While the term "New Age" may have fallen out of favor, [] [] scholar George Chryssides notes that the New Age by whatever name is "still alive and active" in the 21st century.

Mainstream periodicals tended to be less than sympathetic; sociologist Paul Ray and psychologist Sherry Anderson discussed in their book The Cultural Creatives , what they called the media's "zest for attacking" New Age ideas, and offered the example of a Lance Morrow essay in Time magazine.

Some New Agers and New Age sympathizers responded to such criticisms. For example, sympathizers Ray and Anderson said that much of it was an attempt to "stereotype" the movement for idealistic and spiritual change, and to cut back on its popularity. Initially, academic interest in the New Age was minimal. Gordon Melton in Sutcliffe and Gilhus argued that 'New Age studies' could be seen as having experienced two waves; in the first, scholars focused on "macro-level analyses of the content and boundaries" of the "movement", while the second wave featured "more variegated and contextualized studies of particular beliefs and practices".

Mainstream Christianity has typically rejected the ideas of the New Age; [] Christian critiques often emphasise that the New Age places the human individual before God. Peretti 's novel This Present Darkness , which sold over a million copies; it depicted the New Age as being in league with feminism and secular education as part of a conspiracy to overthrow Christianity. An issue of academic debate has been regarding the connection between the New Age movement and contemporary Paganism , or Neo-Paganism.

Kelly stated that Paganism "parallels the New Age movement in some ways, differs sharply from it in others, and overlaps it in some minor ways". Various differences between the two movements have been highlighted; the New Age movement focuses on an improved future, whereas the focus of Paganism is on the pre-Christian past. One of the most contentious aspects of the New Age has been its adoption of spiritual ideas and practises from other, particularly non-Western cultures.

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The New Age has been accused of cultural imperialism , misappropriating the sacred ceremonies, and abuse of the intellectual and cultural property of indigenous peoples. They see the New Age movement as either not fully understanding, deliberately trivializing, or distorting their way of life, [] and have declared war on all such " plastic medicine people " who are appropriating their spiritual ways. Indigenous leaders have spoken out against individuals from within their own communities who may go out into the world to become a "white man's shaman," and any "who are prostituting our spiritual ways for their own selfish gain, with no regard for the spiritual well-being of the people as a whole".

Toward the end of the 20th century, some social and political analysts and activists were arguing that the New Age political perspective had something to offer mainstream society.

Other political thinkers and activists saw New Age politics less positively. On the political right, author George Weigel argued that New Age politics was just a retooled and pastel-colored version of leftism. Cloud , wrote a lengthy critique of New Age politics as a political ideology; [] she faulted it for not being opposed to the capitalist system , or to liberal individualism.

A criticism of New Age often made by leftists is that its focus on individualism deflects participants from engaging in socio-political activism. Journalist Harvey Wasserman suggested that New Age activists were too averse to social conflict to be effective politically. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the New Age movement. For the astrological age in western astrology, see Age of Aquarius. For other uses, see New Age disambiguation. Often, the definition given actually reflects the background of the scholar giving the definition.

Thus, the New Ager views New Age as a revolutionary period of history dictated by the stars; the Christian apologist has often defined new age as a cult; the historian of ideas understands it as a manifestation of the perennial tradition; the philosopher sees New Age as a monistic or holistic worldview; the sociologist describes New Age as a new religious movement NRM ; while the psychologist describes it as a form of narcissism.

All manifestations of this movement are characterized by a popular western culture criticism expressed in terms of a secularized esotericism. A variety of small movements arose, revolving around revealed messages from beings in space and presenting a synthesis of post-Theosophical and other esoteric doctrines. These movements might have remained marginal, had it not been for the explosion of the counterculture in the s and early s. It became perfectly feasible for the same individuals to consult the I Ching, practice Jungian astrology, read Abraham Maslow's writings on peak experiences, etc.

The reason for the ready incorporation of such disparate sources was a similar goal of exploring an individualized and largely non-Christian religiosity. Spiritual but not religious and List of New Age topics.

The authors of much of this material make claims that, while not necessarily untrue or fraudulent, are difficult or impossible for the reader to verify. A number of other channeled documents address issues more immediately relevant to the human condition. The best of these writings are not only coherent and plausible, but eloquently persuasive and sometimes disarmingly moving. New Agers are willing to absorb wisdom teachings wherever they can find them, whether from an Indian guru, a renegade Christian priest, an itinerant Buddhist monk, an experiential psychotherapist or a Native American shaman.

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They are eager to explore their own inner potential with a view to becoming part of a broader process of social transformation. Their journey is towards totality of being. By the early twenty-first century List of new-age music artists and List of ambient artists. Writers who have espoused political ideas influenced by New Age perspectives included Mark Satin left and Benjamin Creme right.

Indeed, if we were to examine some of the social and political threads that run through the aery fabric of New Age thinking, we would find certain themes that resonate with the necessary conditions for a left version of progressive individualism. Generally speaking, New Age addresses its adherents as active participants, with a measure of control over their everyday lives. The New Age 'person' is also in many respects an individual whose personal growth is indissociable from the environment; a link fleshed out in a variety of ecotopian stories and romances.

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So, too, the small-scale imperative of New Age's cooperative communitarianism brings with it a host of potentially critical positions. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. The New Age Music Guide. Retrieved 27 September University Press of America, Chap. From Politics Past to Politics Future: Personal and Social Transformation in the s. Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change. University of California Press, pp. Seeds of the Seventies: University Press of New England, p.

In Margit Mayer and John Ely, eds. Paradox Between Movement and Party. Temple University Press, p. Ecofeminists and the Greens. Temple University Press, pp. Washington Monthly , pp. The author is identified as the policy director of the Democratic Leadership Council. A New Book by Stephen Dinan ". Retrieved 3 March The New York Times , p. The Almanac of American Politics The New Republic , pp. Bruce Walsh, Mark Savickas. Red Earth Press; The American Indian Quarterly issn. University of Nebraska Press. Paths to Transformational Politics". Theory, Study, and Practice. State University of New York Press, pp.

What Is Transformational Politics? Bringing the New Age Into Focus. Peter Lang , Chap. American Purpose , vol. Building an International Platform". In Hoyt, Karen, ed. The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation. Cambridge University Press, p. The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere. Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: The Politics of Transcendence". The Nation , p.

The First Report and Directory , Doubleday, p. Quantum Healing in the New Age". Perspectives on the New Age. State University of New York Press. Aupers, Stef; Houtman, Dick Journal of Contemporary Religion.

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