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506 1.1 | section 2.4), and also by the consumer culture, whose influence 507 4 | that humans are divine, or contain a divine spark within themselves. ~ 508 4 | rather than the silence of contemplating the beloved. It is also 509 Fwd | that through many of our contemporaries who are searching, we can 510 4 | love of oneself even to contempt of God'”.(81) ~* Are we 511 2.2.4 | soul – becomes merely a contingent “epiphenomenon” of essentially 512 2.3.4.1 | lives within them, in their continual search (by means of appropriate 513 2.3.2 | of feminine virtues. This continued under the guidance of Annie 514 2 | religiousness, whose appeal continues to grow.( 13)~There is a 515 7.2 | the cosmos is seen as one continuous chain of being, all levels 516 4 | states and to experience them continuously”.(70) These practices all 517 2.2.3 | body is not a soul, but a continuum of consciousness. Present 518 3.4 | of the word. That would contradict the spirit of childhood 519 7.1 | with the complementarity of contraries, esp. masculine and feminine); ~* 520 2.3.1 | Christians, we believe on the contrary that “man is essentially 521 1 | where this spirituality contrasts with the Catholic faith 522 2 | faith. The purpose of this contribution is to help Catholics find 523 2.3.3 | invisible higher spheres, and of controlling their own lives beyond death~– 524 2 | New Age religion” is more controversial, so it seems best to avoid 525 2.4 | identity problems generated by conventional forms of life”.(44)~The 526 2.3.4.1 | symbol of a rebellion against conventions and rules, a symbol that 527 4 | whom Christians may have conversations on religious matters, the 528 Fwd | foundations of the thought conveyed in this context. From Chapter 529 7.2 | linked to the writings in the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Alexandrian 530 6.2 | would of course have to be corrected, not only to stop the spread 531 7.2 | Every physical being has a corresponding spiritual being, and earthly 532 6.1 | ultimate nature of reality. It corresponds to the post-modern loss 533 Fwd | Holy See: the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Interreligious 534 2.2.1 | sense. Other friends and counsellors from the spirit world are 535 2.4 | trainings” [EST] etc.) marry counter-cultural values with the mainstream 536 7.3 | American exponents of the counter-culture in the fields of politics, 537 4.0 (85) | Cf. R. Rhodes, The Counterfeit Christ of the New Age Movement, 538 6.2 | of Christianity is what counts. ~*The Catholic Church has 539 8 | discernement chrétien sur les courants populaires du “Nouvel Age”, 540 1 | all have. But give it with courtesy and respect and a clear 541 7.2 | Christians. Called “the Craft”, it grew rapidly in the 542 2.3.4.1 | consciousness. We are co- creators, and we create our own reality. 543 2.3.3 | divine Soul or Spirit~– much credence is given to the mediation 544 6.2 | extremely important to check the credentials of people, groups and institutions 545 2.1 | Christian doctrines and creeds. The first symbols of this “ 546 7.2 | cosmos, sites are places criss-crossed by influxes whose correct 547 8 | religiosità: una sfida per i cristiani, Brescia (Queriniana) 1988. ~“ 548 6.2 | spirituality, and of reflecting critically on New Age thought and practice. 549 2.1 | typical of the culture it criticizes.~A word needs to be said 550 7.2 | originally popularised by the Croat Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), 551 1.4 (6) | John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, ( 552 8 | Consciousness, New York (Crossroad) 1987. ~Juan Carlos Urrea 553 6.1 (89) | Moore, In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, 554 2.3.4.3 | deny the fundamental and crucial role of developing consciousness 555 3.3 | Jesus, in particular on his crucifixion and resurrection. We find 556 7.2 | Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) linked success with 557 1.5 | understand the often-silent cry in people's hearts, which 558 6.1 | appealing, but illusory. It is crystallised in Jung's theory that the 559 2.3.2 | expanding consciousness and the cultivation of the myths of the collective 560 2.3.4.2 | agricultural rites and to fertility cults. “Gaia”, Mother Earth, is 561 2.4 | New Age has to do with the culturally stimulated interest in the 562 1.4 | increasing nostalgia and curiosity for the wisdom and ritual 563 1.3 | name seems to have gained currency through Rosicrucianism and 564 7.1 | all life mean that we are currently in the process of volving 565 7.2 | Meister Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa and Jakob Boehme. The name 566 2.5 | of “community”. Like the cybercommunities created by the Internet, 567 2.1 | inevitable progression of natural cycles. In any case, the Age of 568 9.2 | 1991 ~Edênio Valle s.v.d., “Psicologia e energias 569 2.1 (15) | Aurobindo, Swami Muktananda, D.T. Suzuki, Thomas Merton, Willis 570 1.5 | criticisms of “the materialism of daily life, of philosophy and 571 2.3.4.1 | gates of death, biofeedback, dance and even drugs – anything 572 8 | 2. ~Jean Vernette, Jésus dans la nouvelle religiosité, 573 1.3 | the general acceptance of Darwinist evolutionary theory; this, 574 7.2 | later studies showed they dated from the first century of 575 1.3 | Western esotericism. This dates back to Gnostic groups which 576 4 | or to allow oneself to be dazzled by some of their more bizarre 577 1.5 | not to be accused of being deaf to people's longings, her 578 5 | gracious way in which Jesus deals with the woman is a model 579 5 | there is no question of deceit or of self-deception. It 580 4.0 (84) | Letter Redemptoris Missio (7 December 1990), 6, 28, and the Declaration 581 2.2.1 | relaxation aimed at better decision-making and control of one's life 582 4.0 (84) | December 1990), 6, 28, and the Declaration Dominus Jesus (6 August 583 1.4 | para-religion in distinct, if not declared, conflict with all that 584 7.2 | Sanskrit root Kri = action, deed) a key notion in Hinduism, 585 4 | success and wealth (e.g. Deepak Chopra, José Silva et al.). 586 2.3.2 | Carl Gustav Jung. James defined religion as experience, 587 6.1 | depends, of course, on one's definition of reality. A sound approach 588 2.3.4.1 | techniques which lead to definitive enlightenment.~Some stages 589 2.3.4.1 | natural rules of sexuality, defying the limits of death.~In 590 2 | connections to very different degrees and on varying levels of 591 3.5 (63) | Orthodox Christian Theosis and Deification in the New Religious Movements” 592 3.3 | the terms used of cosmic deities to Christ himself. The clearest 593 2 | current of thought”,( 12) a deliberate challenge to modern culture. 594 6.1 | traditions consciously and deliberately blur real differences: between 595 7.2 (105)| On this last, very delicate, point, see Eckhard Türk' 596 2.1 | technology have clearly failed to deliver all they once seemed to 597 7.2 | movement: it is affirmed that deliverance from human suffering and 598 7.2 (95) | Waldenfels (ed.) Nuovo Dizionario delle Religioni, Cinisello Balsamo ( 599 1.4 | so-called New Age: We cannot delude ourselves that this will 600 6.1 | diseases feel cheated and demeaned when confronted by the suggestion 601 6.2 | has even been abused to demonise people and practices. It 602 2.3.4.1 | emphasis on bio-centrism denies the anthropological vision 603 2.0 (9) | pejorative sense, but rather to denote a sociological phenomenon. ~ 604 1.3 | Revolutions, but the reality it denotes is a contemporary variant 605 2.4 | problems (ecological issues, depletion of resources, over-population, 606 4 | mantras, fasting, sleep deprivation and transcendental meditation 607 7.2 | but are simply beautiful. ~Depth Psychology: the school of 608 2.1 (20) | abounding; no more falsehoods or derision - golden living, dreams 609 8 | Frente a una Nueva Era. Desafio a la pastoral en el horizonte 610 3.4 (59) | Frente a una Nueva Era. Desafío a la pastoral en el horizonte 611 8 | Histórico-Doctrinal y Principales Desafíos, Santafé de Bogotá (CELAM) 612 7.2 | subject and object, for which Descartes and Newton are typically 613 8 | nouvelle religiosité, Paris (Desclée) 1987. ~Jean Vernette, Le 614 9.2 | 9.2. Historical, descriptive and analytical works ~Christoph 615 2.5 | is either by chance or by design, since this is a very loose 616 2.1 | this shift is not simply desirable, but inevitable. The rejection 617 2 | particular aspects in great detail, and reference will be made 618 2.4 | Some observers of New Age detect a sinister authoritarianism 619 2.4 | A fundamental dualism is detected in such divisions as those 620 7.2 | unconsciously held beliefs that determine our life-situation. Positive 621 6.2 | of the exercise clearly determines whether it relates to the 622 2.3.4.1 | People are subject to the determining influences of the stars, 623 2.4 | well-suited for the community, detraditionalized spirituality is well-suited 624 4 | working with New Agers to develop a completely new understanding 625 1.1 | is worth remembering that deviations within Christianity have 626 2.3.2 | mediators (angels, spirits, devils) or rituals.~People can 627 2.3.2 | today.~Marilyn Ferguson devoted a chapter of The Aquarian 628 6.1 | birth to his own world or devours it. The star that shines 629 7.2 | sign) the name refers to a diagram composed of a circle with 630 8 | y Cristianismo. Entre el diálogo y la ruptura, Madrid (BAC) 631 9.2 | alternativas”, in A Igreja Católica diante do pluralismo religioso 632 Fwd | staff members of different dicasteries of the Holy See: the Pontifical 633 2.4 | for' the self in that by differing from much of the mainstream, 634 Fwd | how the New Age movement differs from the Christian faith. 635 2 | follows is a response to the difficulties expressed by many in dealing 636 6.1 | transcendence. The fundamental difficulty of all New Age thought is 637 6.2 | are actively involved in diffusing New Age religiosity in the 638 2.3.4.1 | of every human being is diluted in the universal being and 639 4 | resurrection of Christ, and on a direct personal relationship with 640 7.2 | evolution of the human race and directing the work of the Theosophical 641 2.4 | that one can do nothing (directly) to change the world, but 642 2.4 | political instability) enable or disable engagement in other, equally 643 8 | religion américaine. Pistes de discernement chrétien sur les courants 644 5 | him in the Temple to the disciples walking miserably towards 645 2 | constricting limits of rational discourse. But it is meant as an invitation 646 2.5 (50) | which are not yet prayer are discussed below in § 3.4, “Christian 647 6.1 | severe handicaps or incurable diseases feel cheated and demeaned 648 7.2 | from other selves, usually disembodied entities living on a higher 649 2.4 | an unconscious and subtle disempowerment of people, which could leave 650 2.2 (24) | post-modern vision of a disenchanted world and various attempts 651 2 | saying that many people dislike the term New Age, and some 652 2.4 (47) | from the Italian, Il nuovo disordine mondiale, Cinisello Balsamo ( 653 2.2.3 | questions of theodicy and dispenses with the notion of hell. 654 2.2.3 | amount of understandable dissatisfaction. Alternative therapies have 655 3.2 | who, in his later works, distanced himself from the more esoteric 656 7.2 | contact with entities from the distant past rather than people 657 6.1 | have generally been clearly distinguished in Western culture. Is it, 658 2.3.4.2 | uncontaminated by Judaeo-Christian distorsions. Hence great respect is 659 1.4 | knowledge of God, results in distorting His Word and replacing it 660 2 | elusive and, at times, disturbing. These reflections are an 661 2.4 | regret at the effects of disunity and division, but the response 662 2.4 | Western universe is seen as a divided one based on monotheism, 663 3.5 | Christian understanding of divinisation, comes about not through 664 7.2 (95) | Waldenfels (ed.) Nuovo Dizionario delle Religioni, Cinisello 665 3.4 | Father, through the Son, in docility to the power of the Holy 666 4 | involved in them not to raise doctrinal questions; but, at the same 667 6.1 (89) | Monarch) 1989, p. 122. For documentation on the vehemently anti-Christian 668 2.3.2 | religion as experience, not dogma, and he taught that human 669 4.0 (82) | human suffering “Salvifici doloris” (11 February 1984), 19. ~ 670 2.5 | by the Internet, it is a domain where relationships between 671 2.1 | intuitive thinking);~– from a dominance of masculinity and patriarchy 672 2.3.4.2 | patriarchal conception of male domination of women. There is talk 673 3.3 | everything invisible,~Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers–~ 674 1.1 (4) | Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dominum et vivificantem (18 May 675 4.0 (84) | 28, and the Declaration Dominus Jesus (6 August 2000) by 676 3.3 | Christ might be living next door or even inside one's deepest 677 2 | experience. It is bound to draw the criticism that it can 678 1.1 | as the Christian age – is drawing to a close. These reflections 679 8 | How Good People are being drawn into Jungian Psychology, 680 9.2 | du Nouvel-Age, Limoges (Droguet-Ardant) 1993. ~Hans Gasper, Joachim 681 2.1 (21) | ten years ago the funky drug-based spirituality of the hippies 682 7.2 | some of it is “Celtic” or druidic. Some New Age composers 683 7.2 | forms of Paganism like Druidry and Wicca. In a general 684 2.1 | Sufism, the lore of the Druids, Celtic Christianity, mediaeval 685 3.3 | competition, winners and losers, dualisms, anthropocentrism, and the 686 2.2.4 | forms of dualism. These dualistic tendencies are often assumed 687 9.2 | 1992. ~Hans-Jürgen Ruppert, Durchbruch zur Innenwelt. Spirituelle 688 4 | meditative and intuitive dwelling within oneself, but much 689 4 | creaturely persons. “God, who 'dwells in unapprochable light', 690 2.3.4.3 | world is based on an inner dynamism which is necessarily positive 691 7.1 | reality-energy); ~*ecological (earth-Gaia is our mother; each of us 692 1.2 | completely new situation. The ease and speed with which people 693 4 | following questions may be the easiest key to evaluating some of 694 4 | Universal Energy, “such an easy 'relationship' with God, 695 2.4 | number of those who will eat at humanity's table”.(47) 696 6.2 (92) | Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa (14 September 697 2.4 | hierarchical social or ecclesial organisation implies the 698 2.4 | and compassion. New Age echoes society's deep, ineradicable 699 7.2 (105)| very delicate, point, see Eckhard Türk's article “Neonazismus” 700 7.2 | Neoplatonists, to Meister Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa and Jakob 701 2.1 | so it has become a very eclectic approach. It may well be 702 7.2 | two have much in common: eclecticism, a refutation of ontological 703 7.2 | of a universal network (eco-system, family) of nature and world, 704 2.3 (38) | False New Age. Introductory Ecumenical Notes, Manchester (Maranatha) 705 9.2 | University Press) 1991 ~Edênio Valle s.v.d., “Psicologia 706 5 | be patient, as any good educator knows. A person embraced 707 8 | cristiana, Turin (LDC) 1994. ~Edward Anthony McCarthy, The New 708 3.2 | attachment to a private world of ego-fulfilment and a consequent (though 709 2.1 | into New Age are: ancient Egyptian occult practices, Cabbalism, 710 1.3 | justification through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 711 7.3 | community started by Peter and Eileen Caddy achieved the growth 712 2.1 (15) | Gardner Murphy, and Albert Einstein”: The Aquarian Conspiracy. 713 6.1 | that this is very much an “either-or” situation. “No servant 714 5 | with him, from the wise elders who listened to him in the 715 4 | Christianity has to be eliminated and give way to a global 716 2.1 (15) | Harman, Kenneth Boulding, Elise Boulding, Erich Fromm, Marshall 717 2.3.4.3 | much evidence that gnostic élitism and global governance coincide 718 7.2 (102)| Potential Movement, see Elizabeth Puttick, “Personal Development: 719 | else 720 2.3.2 | Blavatsky's writings was the emancipation of women, which involved 721 2.1 | themes of New Age in the emblematic song “Aquarius”.(20) But 722 7.3 | fact, Findhorn 'was seen as embodying its principal ideals of 723 4 | we invent truth or do we embrace it? ~New Age truth is about 724 7.2 | chief figure is Ralph Waldo Emerson, who moved away from orthodox 725 5 | walking miserably towards Emmaus. But one episode that speaks 726 2.1 | appreciation of feeling, emotion and experience (often described 727 2.1 | is a revolution, and Kuhn emphasised that competing paradigms 728 6.2 | time and salvation history. Emphasising what is lacking in other 729 2.3.2 | their own destiny. Jung emphasized the transcendent character 730 2.2 (24) | correspondences, and Jung emphatically relativised causality in 731 4 | silence can confront us with emptiness, rather than the silence 732 2.3.2 | a body of theories which enabled people to talk about God 733 2.3.1 | time to formulate, and its enactment is resisted by older forms 734 2.2.1 | 2.2.1. Enchantment: There Must be an Angel~ 735 7.2 | United States, where it encountered “women's spirituality”. ~ ~ 736 6.2 | and activities to others. Encounters with these groups should 737 4 | of God'”.(81) ~* Are we encouraged to reject or accept suffering 738 2.2.4 | for “wholeness”. There is encouragement to overcome all forms of “ 739 2.3.2 | collective unconscious were all encouragements to search for “the God within” 740 4.0 (66) | P.U.F.) 1992 (Collection Encyclopédique Que sais-je?), p. 14. ~ 741 2.4 | always seeks to measure human endeavours by their openness to the 742 6.2 | life – “Go! The Mass is ended!” In Apostolic Letter the 743 2.3.4.3 | suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers 744 9.2 | Valle s.v.d., “Psicologia e energias da mente: teorias alternativas”, 745 5 | by the truth is suddenly energised by a completely new sense 746 3.4 | love, but to the experience engendered by turning in on oneself, 747 2.3.4.1 | and experiments in genetic engineering, which seem to express a 748 7.2 | succeed. ~Wicca: an old English term for witches that has 749 1.5 | that, especially beyond the English-speaking world, such a “crisis” may 750 6.1 | between faith and reason enhances human life and encourages 751 2.5 | significant that New Age has enjoyed enormous success in an era 752 7.2 | Enneagram: (from the Greek ennéa = nine + gramma = sign) 753 2.5 | and mass communications ensure that the common notions 754 2 | such asks its readers to enter into a critical dialogue 755 3.3 | human history. Eternity entered into time: what 'fulfilment' 756 2.4 | even more appealing to the enterprise-minded businessperson is that New 757 2.4 | personal growth, happiness and enthusiasm, as well as for commercial 758 2 | the word “movement” is not entirely out of place. It can be 759 4 | calls us to judge it in its entirety. From the point of view 760 2.0 (13) | Theologie für Laien” course entitled Faszination Esoterik puts 761 8 | Nueva Era y Cristianismo. Entre el diálogo y la ruptura, 762 2.3.1 | of thought judged to be entrenched in the status quo. What 763 3.1 | tradition behind merely ephemeral tradition, the other behind 764 2.2.4 | becomes merely a contingent “epiphenomenon” of essentially material 765 7.2 (98) | document of the Argentine Episcopal Committee for Culture, op. 766 5 | towards Emmaus. But one episode that speaks really clearly 767 6.1 | reality. A sound approach to epistemology and psychology needs to 768 7.3 | psychology, art and ecology. The Eranos conferences have been held 769 2.1 (15) | Boulding, Elise Boulding, Erich Fromm, Marshall McLuhan, 770 2.5 | minority group – to a conscious erosion of respect for normality. 771 6.2 | spread of confusion and error, but also so that they might 772 7.2 | mystery association (magical, esoteric-occult, gnostic, theosophical etc.). ~ 773 2.3.2 | thinking is to be found in the esoteric-theosophical tradition which was fairly 774 7.2 | Esotericism: (from the Greek esotéros = that which is within) 775 7.1 | complementarity of contraries, esp. masculine and feminine); ~* 776 2.4 | is also linked to Jung's espousal of the theory of correspondence 777 7.2 | astral energies and spiritual essences. The Akasha Chronicle is 778 9.2 | Christoph Schorsch, Karl R. Essmann and Medard Kehl, and “Reinkarnation” 779 2.4 | Erhard seminar trainings” [EST] etc.) marry counter-cultural 780 7.1 | compassion, peace and even the establishment of world government). ~ ~ 781 2.1 (14) | variously by different authors; estimates of timing range from 1967 782 9.2 | religioso do Brasil (III). Estudos da CNBB n. 71, São Paulo ( 783 2.5 | institutions to invent a Global Ethic, an ethical framework which 784 9.2 | 1989. ~Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity, London ( 785 7.2 | Initiation: in religious ethnology it is the cognitive and/ 786 2.3.4.1 | and violent forms. Some evangelical groups have expressed concern 787 6.2 | offers a real kairos for evangelisation. People's minds and hearts 788 Fwd | the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical 789 2.3.1 | the omnipotence of science evaporated, so that the Church now “ 790 7.2 | that human and divine minds eventually meet. Here is where theosophy 791 2.4 | of a vision based on the ever-expanding self are for individuals 792 | everywhere 793 2.3.2 | search for causal laws, evolutionism, psychology and the study 794 7.2 | question of living beings evolving towards superior life forms; 795 2.1 (14) | CA, p. 156, note 6. The exact timing and nature of the 796 2.3.4.3 | This may be an exaggerated way of stating the case, 797 7.2 | the mahatmas, or masters, exalted beings who together constitute 798 1.3 | Cultural background~When one examines many New Age traditions, 799 2.4 | recognition of these personal examples will steadily lead to the 800 3.3 | boredom that comes when our exciting universe is pictured as 801 4 | denied or re-interpreted to exclude the idea that He, as Christ, 802 2.3.1 | Green politics. The Earth's executive agent is the human race 803 4 | christology; ~– a kind of esoteric exegesis is applied to biblical texts 804 2.3.4.1 | transcendental meditation and tantric exercises lead to an experience of 805 2 | even attempt to provide an exhaustive list of New Age phenomena, 806 3.4 | turning in on oneself, an exhilarating sense of being at one with 807 6.1 | approach to the difficult existential questions everyone faces. 808 2.3.4.3 | divine) unity of all that exists. God and the world, soul 809 3.3 | Cosmic Christ... leads a new exodus from the bondage and pessimistic 810 2.3.2 | which is the key to all the “exoteric” traditions which are accessible 811 3.2 | populated with strange and exotic beings, masters, adepts, 812 2.2.3 | tune with nature, one can expect a much healthier life, and 813 7.2 | suffering – illusions to be experienced as part of a “cosmic game” – 814 3.4 | Spirituality in New Age terms means experiencing states of consciousness 815 7.2 | is the cognitive and/or experiential journey whereby a person 816 2.3.4.1 | population control policies and experiments in genetic engineering, 817 2.2.4 | smallest components and then explained in terms of the latter, 818 6.2 | who are capable of both explaining Catholic faith and spirituality, 819 9.1 | The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between 820 7.2 | believed it had helped him explore the laws of evolution of 821 3.2 | forward even by an important exponent of New Age, David Spangler, 822 6.2 | itself is often misapplied or extended to phenomena which can be 823 4 | energy, really a particular extension or component of the cosmos; 824 9.2 | 1996. This book has an extensive bibliography. ~Paul Heelas, 825 4 | could have suffered;~– extra-biblical documents (like the neo-gnostic 826 2.4 | recovery. References to extra-European influences are sometimes 827 6.1 | alternative” culture which has an extraordinarily powerful appeal, above all 828 7.2 | treats of such things as extrasensory perception, mental telepathy, 829 3.2 | beings, masters, adepts, extraterrestrials; it is a place of psychic 830 2.3.4.1 | creature, and one of its extreme forms is Satanism. Satan 831 6.2 | thought and practice. It is extremely important to check the credentials 832 1.1 | external burdens like merely extrinsic authority and tradition; 833 1 | clear conscience” (1 P 3, 15 f.).~ ~ 834 6.1 | existential questions everyone faces. Our limitations are a fact 835 2.1 | affecting such diverse facets of life as medicine, science, 836 2.4 | of' the self in that it facilitates celebration of what it is 837 8 | Laien) 1996. ~David Toolan, Facing West from California's Shores. 838 4 | accordance with the feel- good factor. Evaluating religion and 839 6.1 | not justify sidelining a faculty which is essential for a 840 2.1 | political ideology have faded, and psychedelic drugs are 841 1.4 | thought and practice cannot fail to recognize that, like 842 7.2 | dreams, fantasies, myths and fairy tales. ~Enneagram: (from 843 2.1 (20) | trust abounding; no more falsehoods or derision - golden living, 844 7.2 | so-called philosophia perennis falsely considered as common to 845 3.3 | example of this is in the famous hymn to Christ in Saint 846 7.3 | Findhorn: this holistic farming community started by Peter 847 4 | breathing, hypnosis, mantras, fasting, sleep deprivation and transcendental 848 1.1 | cases, it is completely fatalistic. Christianity, on the other 849 1.1 | another world to discover the fate of individuals, to help 850 2.3.1 | creation and the transcendent Father-God of Judaism and Christianity, 851 7.2 | centuries of Christianity, the Fathers of the Church struggled 852 4 | redeemed. Christ – without any fault of his own – took on himself ' 853 2.2 (24) | relativised causality in favour of the esoteric world-view 854 5 | especially from past failures and fears, and “the one who strives 855 4.0 (82) | Salvifici doloris” (11 February 1984), 19. ~ 856 2.3.2 | States of America. What feeds New Age consistently is 857 4 | truth in accordance with the feel- good factor. Evaluating 858 2.2.3 | bodywork” (such as orgonomy, Feldenkrais, reflexology, Rolfing, polarity 859 8 | Instruction, 1992. ~Paul Poupard, Felicità e fede cristiana, Casale 860 3.4 | our relationship with our fellow men and women, and with 861 7.2 | scripture. The Rosicrucian Fellowship contributed to the revival 862 2.1 | patriarchy to a celebration of femininity, in individuals and in society.~ 863 7.2 | components like ecology, feminism or, in a few cases, myths 864 2.3.2 | was in the vanguard of the feminist movement. Wicca and “women' 865 2.2.2 | the Findhorn garden and Feng Shui (23) represent a variety 866 7.2 | or distinct realities. ~Feng-shui: a form of geomancy, in 867 2.3.4.2 | agricultural rites and to fertility cults. “Gaia”, Mother Earth, 868 1.3 | phenomenon. The existence and fervor of New Age thinking and 869 2.1 | culture were the remarkable festival at Woodstock in New York 870 7.2 | cycle of (agricultural) festivals and to a general affirmation 871 2.4 (43) | rather than history”: Leslie Fiedler, quoted in M. Ferguson, 872 7.3 | the counter-culture in the fields of politics, psychology, 873 7.2 | mediums or channeling. Despite fierce criticism from scientists, 874 2.3.2 | sacralized psychology, by filling it with the contents of 875 2 | phenomena as varied as music, films, seminars, workshops, retreats, 876 2.3 (32) | objectives are quoted from the final (1896) version, earlier 877 2.2.3 | reincarnation therapies and, finally, twelve-step programmes 878 2.4 | relative and absolute, finite and infinite, human and 879 3.1 | feelings of imperfection and finiteness. People discover their profound 880 2.3.2 | by a light and a secret fire which human beings seek 881 3.3 | of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation,~for in 882 4 | as merely a development flaw, a psychological weakness, 883 3.1 | transcendent beyond what is merely fleeting, the primordial tradition 884 3.3 | of connectivity was made flesh and set up its tent among 885 2.1 (15) | Alfred Korzybski, Heinz von Foerster, John Lilly, Werner Erhard, 886 2 | the Gospel message. What follows is a response to the difficulties 887 6.2 | questions, for spiritual food that satisfies, for living 888 2.3.4.3 | failures of old systems, forcing new frameworks for problem-solving 889 1 | Christians is, first and foremost, a solid grounding in their 890 6.1 | and their desire to live forever. Do we make the most of 891 4 | to become divine: if they forget God's search for the human 892 2.4 | with the tradition that formed them. Is this as mature 893 | formerly 894 2.2.3 | New Age offers an Eastern formula in Western terms. Originally, 895 2.3.1 | transformation has taken time to formulate, and its enactment is resisted 896 7.1 | 7.1. Some brief formulations of New Age ideas ~William 897 8 | Madrid (BAC) 1995. ~André Fortin, Les Galeries du Nouvel 898 6.2 | ways, such as providing a forum for discussion and study. 899 7.2 | developed in the 1980s to foster loyalty to the community 900 Fwd | an analysis of the basic foundations of the thought conveyed 901 7.2 | and author Oscar Ichazo, founder of Arica. The origin of 902 7.3 | unorthodox methods. The founding of the Findhorn community 903 5 | woman by Jacob's well in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel; 904 3.3 (58) | Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic 905 7.2 | to provide a theoretical frame integrating the entire worldview 906 2.3.4.3 | old systems, forcing new frameworks for problem-solving in every 907 8 | Monferrato (Piemme) 1990. ~J. Francis Stafford, Il movimento “ 908 9.2 | Kaiser) 1994. ~Bernard Franck, Lexique du Nouvel-Age, 909 2.1 (15) | McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Frederic Spiegelberg, Alfred Korzybski, 910 8 | aus christlicher Sicht, Freiburg (Paulusverlag) 1987. ~Mitch 911 7.2 (105)| Hintergründe, Klärungen, Freiburg- Basel-Wien (Herder) 2000, 912 9.2 | Klärungen, updated edition, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna (Herder) 2000. See, inter 913 2.2 (26) | Hintergründe, Klärungen, Freiburg-Basel-Wien (Herder) 2000, 886-893. ~ 914 1.3 | Freemasonry, at the time of the French and American Revolutions, 915 7.2 | to vibrate at significant frequencies. Hence they are useful in 916 6.2 | terms is a timely sign of a fresh concern for what God has 917 Fwd | to rely “on the perennial freshness of the Gospel message and 918 7.2 | Jung, a former disciple of Freud. Jung recognised that religion 919 2.2.1 | in a strict sense. Other friends and counsellors from the 920 2.1 (15) | Boulding, Elise Boulding, Erich Fromm, Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster 921 2.4 | need to be judged by their fruits, and the question to ask 922 3.3 | Christ. “Time is indeed fulfilled by the very fact that God, 923 4 | third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended 924 2.1 (15) | Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Frederic Spiegelberg, Alfred 925 3.4 | transcendent God in the fullness of love, but to the experience 926 7.2 | the idea that reality is fundamentally spiritual, it is a contemporary 927 1.5 | ever more firmly in the fundamentals of their faith, and to understand 928 2.1 (21) | Just ten years ago the funky drug-based spirituality 929 1.1 | New Age practices so as furthering the advancement of the individual.~ 930 2.3.2 | 1875. The Society aimed to fuse elements of Eastern and 931 7.2 | thinker and practitioner G.I. Gurdjieff, the Chilean psychologist 932 4 | world up to and beyond the Galactic God himself, about Whom 933 8 | 1995. ~André Fortin, Les Galeries du Nouvel Age: un chrétien 934 7.2 | experienced as part of a “cosmic game” – but is the universal 935 2.3.4.1 | birth, travelling to the gates of death, biofeedback, dance 936 7.3 | the list of those who have gathered over the years at Monte 937 7.3 | there every year since 1933, gathering some of the great luminaries 938 2.3 (31) | Orationis Formas), 1989, 14.~Cf. Gaudium et Spes, 19; Fides et Ratio, 939 6.1 (89) | Spiritualism”, in Edwin S. Gaustad (ed.), The Rise of Adventism: 940 1.5 | them – or perhaps never gave them – something they really 941 4 | God's image and likeness (Gen 1.27) and God takes great 942 7.2 (100)| Cf. Susan Greenwood, “Gender and Power in Magical Practices”, 943 4 | themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations 944 2.3.1 | has been successful is the generalisation of ecology as a fascination 945 2.1 | are moderate, but quite generalised, visions of a future where 946 2.4 | handle identity problems generated by conventional forms of 947 2.3.1 | The wisdom of older generations was suddenly robbed of significance 948 6.2 | which ought to be shared generously in areas that are less well 949 3.1 | becoming and in the New Genesis of a world in constant evolution. 950 7.3 (106)| Critical Assessment, London, (Geoffrey Chapman) 1999, p.1. ~ 951 7.2 | Feng-shui: a form of geomancy, in this case an occult 952 9.2 | Eastbourne (Monarch) 1989. ~Georges Minois, Histoire de l'athéisme, 953 7.2 | invented in England in 1939 by Gerald Gardner, who based it on 954 7.2 | after being leader of its German branch from 1902 to 1913. 955 7.2 (99) | J. Gernet, in J.-P. Vernant et al., 956 3.4 | who are weakest and least gifted according to the values 957 6.2 | dominant culture to bury these gifts (cf. Mt 25.24-30). One of 958 1.4 (5) | Cf. Gilbert Markus o.p., “Celtic Schmeltic”, ( 959 8 | e la teologia ai nostri giorni, Guadalajara, May 1996, 960 2.3.4.3 | gnostic, in the sense of giving too much power to knowledge 961 5 | the woman a while even to glimpse what Jesus means by the 962 7.1 | vision, which is: ~*holistic (globalising, because there is one single 963 2 | whose approach is to think globally but act locally. People 964 7.2 | has been linked to Greek Gnostics and Neoplatonists, to Meister 965 6.2 | demand in appealing ways. He goes on to issue a challenge 966 4 | perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of 967 5 | eternal life” (verse 14). The gracious way in which Jesus deals 968 4 | found in every being, in a gradation “from the lowest crystal 969 2.3.4.3 | one family with different grades of evolution. Every human 970 2.4 | dialogue; in a context where Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian influences 971 7.2 | the Greek ennéa = nine + gramma = sign) the name refers 972 4.0 (85) | of the New Age Movement, Grand Rapids (Baker) 1990, p. 973 4 | God's plan for man can we grasp that sin is an abuse of 974 2.3.1 | missionary zeal characteristic of Green politics. The Earth's executive 975 7.2 (100)| Cf. Susan Greenwood, “Gender and Power in Magical 976 2.1 (15) | Benedict, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Tarthang Tulku, 977 1 | first and foremost, a solid grounding in their faith. On this 978 2 | whose appeal continues to grow.( 13)~There is a problem 979 4 | The Christian approach grows out of the Scriptural teachings 980 2.5 | tolerance – in the sense of grudging acceptance or putting up 981 4 | only in Jesus Christ (cf. GS 22),and in fact becomes 982 8 | teologia ai nostri giorni, Guadalajara, May 1996, in L'Osservatore 983 7.2 | groups and societies that guard the knowledge and techniques 984 2.3 (34) | institutions clearly inspired and guided by Jung's psychology. ~ 985 7.2 | Brotherhood. She saw them as guiding the evolution of the human 986 1.4 | gnostic ideas under the guise of the so-called New Age: 987 7.2 | thinker and practitioner G.I. Gurdjieff, the Chilean psychologist 988 7.2 (95) | Badewien, Antroposofia, in H. Waldenfels (ed.) Nuovo 989 3.5 | Preface to Book V of Adversus Haereses, Saint Irenaeus refers to “ 990 9.2 | Reinhard Hümmel. ~Manabu Haga and Robert J. Kisala (eds.), “ 991 2.1 | in 1969 and the musical Hair, which set forth the main 992 7.3 | all of which have become hallmarks of the New Age Movement, 993 6.2 | when our ordinary life is hallowed, is the surest way of making 994 2.3.2 | experiences, the use of hallucinogenic drugs. These were all ways 995 6.2 (92) | Culture has published a handbook listing these centres throughout 996 2.3.2 | Esoteric teachings are handed down from master to disciple 997 6.1 | death: people with severe handicaps or incurable diseases feel 998 2.4 | mainstream, it is positioned to handle identity problems generated 999 9.2 | Kong (Good Tiding) 1992. ~Hans-Jürgen Ruppert, Durchbruch zur 1000 2.3.4.3 | unthinkable that it cannot happen. Such reasoning is really 1001 2.1 | they once were. So much has happened since then that all this 1002 6.2 | convinced that there is no harm in 'borrowing' from the 1003 2.1 (15) | Suzuki, Thomas Merton, Willis Harman, Kenneth Boulding, Elise 1004 7.2 | single living organism, a harmonious network of dynamic relationships. 1005 4 | be used or a force to be harnessed?~The New Age concept of