what do you think of new age spirituality???

Question

some people say its so "out there" that its impossible and stupid. but what are some things about it that you find rediculous??


im not to familiar with it

Answer 1

oh it's not impossible. very little is impossible. but it is so astronomically improbable as to BE impossible. and since no real evidence at all exists for it I'd say that "stupid" and "ridiculous" are accurate words.

hey the planets govern everything about you" that's rericulous.
hey i can predict everything about you but i'll make it SO vague as to make the things i say true for almost anyone! ...rediculous.

it's a way for people to make money selling herbs and rocks to crystal-grippers.

Answer 2

Define what falls under the category of "New Age"? The Neo Platonists (with possibly the most complex ontological structure ever devised) are the source for a great deal of the "World-Soul" talk. Alchemy started in the middle ages, with the fascination with Hermes Trismigeistus. Taoism (I Ching) is pretty dang old - ancient Chinese history. Chess, tarot, and various other divinatory apparatus were used in Persia and India. So, I don't see what's so "new" about these things. I suspect the way in which they are presented (and marketed) to an audience which seeks to become dillentants.

Which, really, is the main thing I despise about anything so-called "new age." Its marketed as mysterious and yet, accessible to everyone and anyone. And any history, element of truth, or plausibility is absent. And it is touted as a quick-fix, band-aid, rub the lamp life-fixer.

Answer 3

OK, so there are more things in heaven and on Earth than are dreampt of in Horatio's philosophy. Shakespeare knew it, and with all we've learned over the past 100 years or so that we didn't know before, it's reasonable to be even more convinced of it (although some religionists and others seem to think they know all the answers). But I don't think that obliges us to go all mystic and supernatural. Such things are merely the crutches of folk who cannot live without support and certainty, aided by some congregation of shared fantasies or beliefs. BUT, after a long thoughtful life I experience spirituality as a sense of connectedness with all things, from the stars to the Earth, and all things on it, sentient or not. The idea came to me decades ago in a desert so perhaps I should claim "revelation" for it - but I certainly won't. For me, it simply makes sense, scientifically, and feels right emotionally. That universal connectedness includes many things I don't like, and which I oppose, in others and myself. But that actually increases my sense of empathy. It helps me live with myself and others, and try always to gain new insights. I don't think that is what you mean by "new age", although my feelings may have been shaped by participating in the genesis of that "new age" over the past 75 years. Ultimately, by the way, there is a reality "out there", but surely our ideas of it are all in what I call "the wilderness of the mind" - by far the greatest field for exploration though often alarming.

Answer 4

remember that these answers are a few in a couple billion. so do not take these people's answers into considedration without doing some research on your own. go to "www.wikipedia.com" and type in new age

and by the way, i believe that the NEW AGE philosophy deserves a chance in our minds.remember that we are EXTREMELY SMALL and insignificant, science has yet to prove anything to do with how the uuniverse came about. the new age philosophy is JUST as valid as the Christian one,perhaps even more so, as there is now a model of the universe that resembles that proposed by the new age thinkers.such as myself,i actually thought about that before i read about it, i felt so smart! =)

Answer 5

Spirituality is about going beyond nature, so there is no new age or old age to it... just the same ever... the techniques do get better with experienced masters adding to earlier ones.

Answer 6

one of my really good friends is a new ager.

the crap that he listens to and the bullsh!t that the 'guru's' spew out would be hilarious if he didnt spend tens of thousands of dollars on incense, crystals, purifying drinks, lotions, enemas and the list goes on.

what kind of new age guru, which is suppose to have no concern for material things of this world, charge $5000 (yes, $5000) for a weekend 'seminar' of enlightenment. the only thing that got enlightened was my friends wallet

i listened to one of his $100 tapes one day and it said something like this 'the distance between the electron to the nucleus of the atom is infinitely far...thus, there is an incredible void between atoms, which there is nothing inbetween. thus, we are made up of atoms that are made out of nothing and thus we are made of nothing' i simply say to him 'so...if i shoot you with a bullet...the bullet should pass right through you and not kill you since you are made of nothing, right?' he goes 'good question' but didnt have an answer for me.

my friend is so f-u-cked up from new age and philosophical ideas that he has nothing, owns nothing and is nothing in life. that is why i am so passionate about just shooting down the f-u-cking ridiculous sh!t that i constantly read on philosophy. religion isnt the opiate of the masses...it is dumbf-u-cks looking for people to answer questions they already know themselves but will spend their life and life savings getting these con men to release their precious answers to life.

do you want to know the key to life?

i wont even charge you any money.

work hard at something you love and at the end of each day...you will go to sleep with a smile on your face!

how's that for a million dollars? and i just gave it to you for free!

new age guru's will suck you dry for trying to find yourself. you wanna know more about life...come over to my home, i'll make you a cup of joe, we'll kick back and shoot the sh!t. i'll even pay for the coffee!

questions about life should be free!

Answer 7

Thay have a shopper's sense when finding pretty rocks. They want to be Jesus or a galaxy and eat bland things... that's all there really is to them, does that help?

Answer 8

“Love vs. Attachment”

What in the world is the difference between loving a person and being attached to them ?
Love is the sincere wish for others to be happy, and to be free from suffering.
Having realistically recognized others' kindness as well as their faults, love is always focused on the other persons welfare. We have No ulterior motives to fulfull our self-interest, or to fulfill our desires; to love others simply because they exist.
Attachment, on the other hand, exaggertes others' good qualitities and makes us crave to be with them. When we're with them, we're happy, but when we're separated from them, we are often miserable. Attachment is linked with expectations of what others should be or do.
Is love as it is usually understood in our society
really love ? or attachment ? or even possibly for some, only lust.
Let us examine this a bit more. Generally we are attracted to people either because they have qualities we value or because they help us in some way. If we observe our own thought processes mindfully, and carefully - we'll notice that we look for specific qualities in others.
Some of these qualities we find attractive, others are those our parents, or society value.
We examine someone's looks, body, education,
financial situation, social status. This is how most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value to us.
In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they help us, praise us, make us feel secure, listen to what we have to say, care for us when we are sick or depressed, we consider them good people, and it is this type of people we are most likely to be more attracted to.

But this is very biased, for we judge them only in terms of how they relate to "us", as if we are the most important person in the world.
After we've judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them it appears to us as if goodness is coming from them, but if we are more aware, we recognize that we have projected this goodness onto them.

Desiring to be with the people alot who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo's -
when we're with these people, we're Up, when we're not with these people, we're Down.

Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with those people will be and thus have expectations of them. When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we're very disappointed, or may become angry !
We want them to change so that they will they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from the other people.
Our problems arise not because others aren't
who we thought they we're, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they
aren't.
Checklist: "I Love You if __________ "
What we call love is most often attachment.
It is actually a disturbing attitude that overestamates the qualities of another person.
We then cling to tightly to that person, thinking our happiness depends on that person.
"Love, on the other hand, is an open and very calm, relaxed attitude. We want someone to be happy, and free from suffering simply because they exist. While attachment is uncontrolled and much too sentimental, Love is direct and powerful. Attachment obscures our judgment and we become impatient, angry, and impartial, helping only our dear one's and harming those who we don't like. Love builds up others, and clarifies our minds, and we
access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on
selfishness, while Love is founded upon cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to the eyes. Love looks beyond
all the superficial appearences, and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want inner peace, happiness, and want to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, dirty, ignorant people, we feel repulsed because our selfish minds watn to know attractive, intellectual, clean, and talented people. Love, on the other hand, never evaluates others by these superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others' appearances, their experience is the same as ours: they seek inner peace, to be happy, to be free from sufferings, and to do their best to avoid problems.
When we're attached, we're not mentally and emotionally free. We overly depend on and cling to another person to fulfill our mental and especially our emotional needs. We fear losing the person, feeling we'd be incomplete without him.
This does not mean that we should suppress our emotional needs or become aloof, alone and totally independent, for that too does not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs, and slowly seek to eliminate them. Some emotional needs may be so strong that they can't be dissolved immediately.
If we try to suppress them or pretend they do not exist, we become anxious, insecure, falling into a depression. In this case, we can do our best to fulfill our needs while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them.
"The core problem is we seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others rather than to understand them. In all honesty, our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfishness obscuring our own
minds. 'We can develop self-confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a selfless human being with many, many magnificient qualities, then we'll develop a true and accurate feeling of self-confidence. And
then we'll seek to increase true love, without attachments, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience and understanding, as well as generousity, concentration and wisdom.'

'Under the influence of attachment we're bound by our emotional reactions to others. When they are nice to us, we're happy. When they ignore us, or speak sharply to us, we take it personally and are unhappy. But pasifying attachment doesn't mean we become hard-hearted. Rather, without attachment there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine Affection and Impartial Love for them.
We'll be actively involved with them.
If we learn to subdue our attachments, we can most definately have successful friendships and personal relationships with others !! These relationships will be richer because of the freedom and respect - the relationships will be based on. We'll care about the happiness and the misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same in wanting and needing inner peace, happiness, and not wanting to suffer. However, our lifestyles and interests may be more compatible with those of some people more so than with others, and that is alright. In any case, our relationships will be based on mutual Love, mutual interests, and the wish to help each other in life.