To me, New Age thinking is: a universe made up of an energy (or force) that is itself conscious, alive, infinitely intelligent, and all-powerful. And everything (including us) is just that one energy in the form of different objects, and it's sort of a game for us to discover over the course of life (or lives) who/what we really are. No judgment, no conflict, pain or suffering, just the appearance of such, for the purposes of playing this "game".
I actually like this worldview the best, it makes the most sense to me actually. But when this kind of thought started getting embraced by young people in the 60s, with Ram Dass, psychadelics, etc the US has seemed to not function as well as it did before then. People live by their own moral codes instead of a more traditional universal one. Some would say the further to the left the US has gone, the faster it falls apart.
Does New Age thinking not work in real life? Would that mean "New Age" thinking is bad/harmful altogether?
2007-06-03
03:46:59
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