It goes without saying that not everything New Age is terrible. Like everything, there is good and bad in every movement. The problem at any given time is dogmatism and the potential for exploitation.
It is so interesting to me how the promise of something usually entails the opposite. A shortcut on your journey turns out to be the long way. Something tasty may sit horribly in your stomach. Love and light can lead to hatred and darkness. All of these things are fine, they are just part of life. But there is a potential to stay too stuck in any given energy because of *fear* and self-imposed limitations and restrictions, that needs to be warned against. While you are in the cage, you might find yourself dolled and dyed up- you may find yourself sold off to the meat grinder, again and again, for some other being’s benefit.
There is a giant error and flaw that is pushed and marketed relentlessly towards people through the guise of spirituality: this is about focusing on light, and about a war between light and darkness that demands our intervention and total focus. Basically the idea seems to be that we should be focusing on what we desire, here and now- and pushing as much happy-happy energy into it so that we can get it.
This is perfect for a box-macaroni and appearance-obsessed culture that has largely rejected God, that feels uncomfortable at the word. I think I’m going to make a point to use it! The hallmark is a focus on instant gratifcation and the promise of total fulfilment through something easy like- oh, I don’t know, a course in chakra realignment or guided meditations that will focus love energy into one’s surroundings and bring in all kinds of love and riches. But there is absolutely no mention of anything uncomfortable like- doing the correct thing by other people involved, or hard work, or spiritual growth and transformation. The focus is all on exterior gain, and not on the mind- on temporary things, on temporary states of mind that are bound to change eventually when the inevitabilities of life catch up with us.
That is another problem I see with how a lot of things are presented as well. There is a lot of emphasis on controlling things and how they will happen, what we will get etc etc. It is better to let *go* of control, find ways of letting go. Olympic medalists don’t think and plan their way through every one of their incredible movements, they simply move by instinct. You do not need a thousand expensive things sold by tie-dye internet individuals in order to get you to that state, you just need you, your meditation cushion and your basic bodily needs fulfiled.
Remember the only thing that will persist after physical death is your mind, your soul, and your karma. You cannot take your partner, car or cute crystal collection with you into the afterlife- not even if you are a Pharoah, or believe you were in a past life. But you can sure as hell bring your regrets with you, and also the good things you did!
The New Age gives us liberation in that nothing is off limits, although a lot of people in that movement will be seriously challenged if you direct them to practice that is not focused on instant gratification. I would like to see as much introspective honesty and rigorous self-discipline injected into that movement as there is mumbo-jumbo channelings and expensive crystals dug out of the ground by extremely poor people. Eventually there will be, because the truth always prevails.
I will share with you a vision that was shown to me. I’ve shared it before, but not on this blog, and it was perhaps the most powerful thing I have ever been granted to “see”.
I was shown our world in its place on the arm of a spiral galaxy, and shown how the spiral galaxy was rotating. That rotation was inducing the slow movement of our world towards the centre of the galaxy, which is filled with a higher concentration of light, of stars. I was told- “hands off!” Nothing more needed to be said, Spirit is always very blunt with me.
Find out how to let go. Figure out how to let go. Be yourself and be honest and truthful and work as hard as you need to work in order to exploit others as little as possible. That’s all you need to do, God can do the rest.
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