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1506 1.5 | faith, and to understand the often-silent cry in people's hearts, 1507 2.3.2 | Theosophical Society with Henry Olcott in New York in 1875. The 1508 2.3.2 | involves a search for the oldest and highest tradition in 1509 7.3 | and the Open Center and Omega Institute in New York”.(106) ~ 1510 2.3.1 | significance and respect, while the omnipotence of science evaporated, so 1511 4 | them as his sons in his only-begotten Son. By revealing himself 1512 3.4 | person's consciousness and opens him or her to contact with 1513 2.5 | reaction to modernity, it operates more often than not on the 1514 6.1 | we make the most of our opportunities to recall what is promised 1515 2.1 | humane and beautiful than the oppressive, alienating experience of 1516 2.4 | what is implied when people opt for New Age alternatives 1517 2.5 | alternative, resolutely optimistic relationship to the cosmos. 1518 2.2.3 | been understood far more optimistically as a process of learning 1519 6.2 | heritage. The great religious orders have strong traditions of 1520 2.3.2 | of their imagination (an organ of the soul or spirit), 1521 2.4 | hierarchical social or ecclesial organisation implies the search for an 1522 6.2 | status for some questionable organisations. This fits in with the New 1523 2 | spirituality”. Many have rejected organised religion, because in their 1524 2.4 | religiosity, with its hierarchical organization, is well-suited for the 1525 2.2.3 | kinds of “bodywork” (such as orgonomy, Feldenkrais, reflexology, 1526 2.4 | influences are suspect, oriental influences are used precisely 1527 4 | as opposed to the double orientation of Christian prayer, which 1528 7.2 | the early 1970s Leonard Orr described rebirthing as 1529 8 | un chrétien s'y promène, Ottawa (Novalis) 1993. ~Claude 1530 6.2 | precious resources, which ought to be shared generously 1531 6.2 | respect diversity from the outset, and will never seek to 1532 1.1 | is an invitation to look outwards and beyond, to the “new 1533 2.4 | depletion of resources, over-population, the economic gap between 1534 | overall 1535 4 | they may appear – from the overarching framework which permeates 1536 2.3.4.1 | with the Higher Self, which overcomes all forms of dualism between 1537 7.2 | perceiving reality, a way of overcoming the separation between subjects 1538 6.1 | duty to the cosmos, thus overturning the true concept of sin 1539 2.3.4.1 | This exaltation of humanity overturns the correct relationship 1540 2 | NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW~Christians in many Western 1541 5 | their own way, at their own pace, and letting God do the 1542 7.2 | concerned is very often packaged as a means of achieving 1543 8 | Paulusverlag) 1987. ~Mitch Pacwa s.j., Catholics and the 1544 7.2 | reconstructed” forms of Paganism like Druidry and Wicca. 1545 2.3 (38) | 1993, 8.10 – the original page numbering is not specified. ~ 1546 4.0 (68) | Vaticana) 1999, especially pages 13-34. The list of common 1547 Fwd | honestly ask whether they have paid sufficient attention to 1548 2.2.1 | new industry of books and paintings). Those who refer to angels 1549 7.2 | Age. ~Pantheism: (Greek pan = everything and theos = 1550 2.3.4.2 | pantheistic or, more precisely, panentheistic. God is the “life-principle”, 1551 1.4 | characteristics of a religion or a para-religion in distinct, if not declared, 1552 2.1 | emphasised that competing paradigms are incommensurable and 1553 9.1 | Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and 1554 6.2 | serve Jesus Christ, it is of paramount importance to start with 1555 2.3.2 | appropriate therapy – meditation, parapsychological experiences, the use of 1556 2.3.4.1 | essentially divine, although they participate in this cosmic divinity 1557 2.1 | entities which are more participatory and democratic, greater 1558 2.3.4.3 | waves or energy rather than particles, is central to much New 1559 2.5 | of the market, and it is partly because it is such an attractive 1560 6.1 | is to show how a healthy partnership between faith and reason 1561 7.2 | Death is nothing but the passage of the soul from one body 1562 2.1 (19) | Editrice Vaticana) 1999, passim, but especially pp. 11-34. 1563 1.5 | say the New Age is already passing us by, and refer to the “ 1564 4 | on a participation in the passion, death and resurrection 1565 2.1 | expressions, people do not watch passively, but have an active role 1566 Fwd | from the United States: “Pastors must honestly ask whether 1567 4 | individual personalities would be pathological in terms of New Age (in 1568 6.2 | Church, in their trust, calm, patience and cheerfulness, and in 1569 5 | is also important to be patient, as any good educator knows. 1570 2.5 | fits perfectly into the patterns of consumption in societies 1571 9.2 | Estudos da CNBB n. 71, São Paulo (paulus) 1994. ~World Commission 1572 9.2 | da CNBB n. 71, São Paulo (paulus) 1994. ~World Commission 1573 8 | christlicher Sicht, Freiburg (Paulusverlag) 1987. ~Mitch Pacwa s.j., 1574 6.1 | faith: these movements “pay little heed to Revelation”, “ 1575 1.5 | which teaches egoism and pays no attention to other people, 1576 2.3.2 | were all ways of achieving “peak experiences”, “mystical” 1577 2.3.4.1 | self-fulfilment or enlightenment. Peak-experiences (reliving one's birth, travelling 1578 2.1 (15) | Mahesh Yogi, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Karl Pribram, Gardner Murphy, 1579 3.5 | unlimited power within us by peeling off layers of inauthenticity.(63) 1580 2.0 (9) | is used here not in any pejorative sense, but rather to denote 1581 4 | New Age is essentially Pelagian in its understanding of 1582 3.5 (63) | Cf. Brendan Pelphrey, “I said, You are Gods. 1583 2.1 | symbols of this “movement” to penetrate Western culture were the 1584 7.2 | amongst others, has been penetrated by the cosmic Christ. The 1585 4 | which is dawning will be peopled by perfect, androgynous 1586 | per 1587 7.1 | reality. ~*All life, as we perceive it with the five human senses 1588 2.3.4.2 | consciousness where he or she perceives him- or herself to be divine 1589 7.2 | reach a higher level of perceiving reality, a way of overcoming 1590 2.3.4.1 | fundamental belief in the perfectibility of the human person by means 1591 2.5 | significance. This fits perfectly into the patterns of consumption 1592 6.2 | available through courses or periods in which their houses might 1593 6.1 | has begun more recently to permeate all levels of the “alternative” 1594 4 | overarching framework which permeates the whole thought-world 1595 2.4 | whole of humanity. The most pernicious consequences of any philosophy 1596 7.2 | ancient nature religion persecuted by Christians. Called “the 1597 5 | about Jesus to knowing him personally, then understanding the 1598 2 | world from very different perspectives.~The pastoral effectiveness 1599 4 | and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. 1600 3.3 | exodus from the bondage and pessimistic views of a Newtonian, mechanistic 1601 7.2 | Society, founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1602 2.2.3 | a preview of its coming phase of life. People have access 1603 7.2 | rhythmic repetition of key phrases. As with many elements of 1604 3.3 | our exciting universe is pictured as a machine bereft of mystery 1605 2.4 | Eastern religious practices piecemeal and re- interprets them 1606 2.1 (15) | order of frequency, were Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, C.G. 1607 4 | crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was 1608 2.3.1 | of faith in these former pillars of consciousness and social 1609 8 | Une religion américaine. Pistes de discernement chrétien 1610 7.2 | entities living on a higher plane. It links beings as diverse 1611 2.2.1 | world and also on the “inner planes”: i.e. those which are accessible 1612 7.3 | achieved the growth of enormous plants by unorthodox methods. The 1613 2.3.4.3 | aristocracy in the style of Plato's Republic, run by secret 1614 6.1 | it “confusion”? It is not playing with words to say that New 1615 1.5 | radio stations, and the plethora of self-help groups in so 1616 2.3.4.3 | happens as if New Age, having plucked people out of fragmentary 1617 9.2 | Igreja Católica diante do pluralismo religioso do Brasil (III). 1618 6.1 | s God and goal. The most poignant and problematic consequence 1619 2 | However, it has also been pointed out that “it is a very coherent 1620 2.2.3 | Feldenkrais, reflexology, Rolfing, polarity massage, therapeutic touch 1621 2.3.4.1 | underlying population control policies and experiments in genetic 1622 2.4 | and enlightened than what politicians generally offer, but it 1623 2.5 | and politics. Further, the politicisation of ecological questions 1624 8 | Vatican City (Vatican Polyglot Press) 1989. ~International 1625 4 | sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died 1626 8 | chrétien sur les courants populaires du “Nouvel Age”, Montréal ( 1627 3.2 | the New Age has become populated with strange and exotic 1628 2.3.4.1 | ideological theory underlying population control policies and experiments 1629 7.2 | to initiated groups, who portray themselves as guardians 1630 2.4 | of the mainstream, it is positioned to handle identity problems 1631 7.2 | people through ritualised possession (by the spirits) of a shaman, 1632 6.1 | Alternatives offer people not two possibilities, but only the possibility 1633 2.2.3 | in cosmic evolution. This post-Christian approach to eschatology 1634 6.2 (92) | Cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia 1635 1.3 | Age can be described as a postmodern phenomenon. The existence 1636 2.2.3 | Present life is embedded in a potentially endless cosmic process which 1637 8 | Instruction, 1992. ~Paul Poupard, Felicità e fede cristiana, 1638 2.3.2 | centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a 1639 2.4 | is “a subtle surrender to powerlessness and irresponsibility in 1640 6.2 | 6.2. Practical steps ~First of all, it 1641 2.5 | employees are required to practise meditation and adopt mind-expanding 1642 1.4 | It is only a new way of practising gnosticism – that attitude 1643 7.2 | Russian esoteric thinker and practitioner G.I. Gurdjieff, the Chilean 1644 2.3.3 | perennial knowledge” which pre-dates and is superior to all religions 1645 7.2 | pagan religions. Whatever preceded Christianity is reckoned 1646 6.2 | these questions. These are precious resources, which ought to 1647 2.2.1 | unhelpful if they are too precise, since “there are many levels 1648 2.3.2 | Aquarian Conspiracy to the precursors of the Age of Aquarius, 1649 2.1 (21) | reconstruction of their basic premises”. Quoted in Marilyn Ferguson, 1650 2.4 | manipulation? Does the current preoccupation with planetary problems ( 1651 2.3.4.1 | way to self-redemption are preparatory (meditation, body harmony, 1652 2.3.4.1 | using this power, people prepare the way for the Age of Enlightenment. 1653 1.1 | internalised in a way which prepares the ground for a celebration 1654 6.2 | can offer a good, sound presentation of the Christian message. 1655 6.2 | so we need to resist the pressures of the dominant culture 1656 3.4 | techniques need to be purged of presumption and pretentiousness. Christian 1657 3.4 | purged of presumption and pretentiousness. Christian prayer is not 1658 2.3.4.1 | idea that Christianity has prevented the full manifestation of 1659 2.2.3 | its new body there is a preview of its coming phase of life. 1660 2.1 (15) | Joseph Chilton Pearce, Karl Pribram, Gardner Murphy, and Albert 1661 3.1 | and the same reality, the primal source present in every 1662 Fwd | reflections are offered primarily to those engaged in pastoral 1663 8 | Visión Histórico-Doctrinal y Principales Desafíos, Santafé de Bogotá ( 1664 6.2 | approaches should not be the main priority. It is more a question of 1665 2.4 | Age Movement is that its privatistic quest for self-fulfilment 1666 3.4 | benefits are restricted to a privileged spiritual 'aristocracy'.~ 1667 2.3.4.3 | forcing new frameworks for problem-solving in every area”.(41) Thus 1668 6.1 | goal. The most poignant and problematic consequence of the acceptance 1669 3.4 | concept of God as person, proceed 'from below'. Although they 1670 6.1 | the body, which Christians proclaim every Sunday in the creed? 1671 2.4 | human and divine, sacred and profane, past and present, all redolent 1672 3.5 | been a stream of people professing belief in “the god within”. 1673 2.1 | approach to health combining professional medicine and self-healing, 1674 2.1 (21) | mentality. Science, the health professions, and the arts, not to mention 1675 2.1 | Aquarius has such a high profile in the New Age movement 1676 2.5 | always going to be a way of profiting from people's perceived 1677 5 | someone who has clearly been profoundly affected by his or her own 1678 2.3.2 | to disciple in a gradual program of initiation.~19th century 1679 7.2 | forms; the physical model is projected on to the spiritual realm, 1680 2.2.3 | Inasmuch as health includes a prolongation of life, New Age offers 1681 8 | Nouvel Age: un chrétien s'y promène, Ottawa (Novalis) 1993. ~ 1682 2.1 | all they once seemed to promise, so in their search for 1683 2.3.4.3 | early signs of another, more promising, paradigm. We create alternative 1684 7.2 | early 20th century that promoted a world government. The 1685 6.2 | Hinduism), despite what TM's promoters claim about its religious 1686 6.1 | religion. Anything which promotes conceptual confusion or 1687 6.1 | of reincarnation is clear proof of people's fear of death 1688 7.2 | within human beings would propel them towards superior spiritual 1689 5 | his word: “I see you are a prophet, Sir” (verse 19). The dialogue 1690 2.2.4 | Divisions which New Age proponents claim need to be overcome 1691 6.2 | world's fair of religious proposals, the appeal of Christianity 1692 6.1 | worldview”, “they often propose a pantheistic concept of 1693 1.5 | are to be found in what it proposes as alternative answers to 1694 Fwd | multifaceted cultural tendency, proposing an analysis of the basic 1695 2.5 | such an attractive economic proposition that New Age has become 1696 2.4 | in order to become more prosperous (through magic etc.). “What 1697 6.2 | Christian message. We can be proud of what we have been given 1698 2.3.4.3 | inner transformation can be proved to be. One is forced to 1699 6.2 | search by offering them proven techniques and experiences 1700 6.2 | areas that are less well provided for. ~*Quite a few New 1701 2.5 | However, there is no way of proving that such a rapid spread 1702 Fwd | culture.~The study is a provisional report. It is the fruit 1703 2.3.4.1 | drugs – anything which can provoke an altered state of consciousness) 1704 4 | the death of other people provokes a healthy crisis. ~Both 1705 4 | surprise of the Psalmist (cf. Ps 8). The human person is 1706 4 | relieved surprise of the Psalmist (cf. Ps 8). The human person 1707 3.2 | spiritual narcissism or pseudo-mysticism. It is interesting to note 1708 2.4 | are sometimes merely a “pseudo-Orientalisation” of Western culture. Furthermore, 1709 9.2 | 1991 ~Edênio Valle s.v.d., “Psicologia e energias da mente: teorias 1710 2.1 | ideology have faded, and psychedelic drugs are by no means as 1711 2.3.2 | William James and the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. James 1712 1.5 | and even of medicine and psychiatry; reductionism, which refuses 1713 4 | reached through particular psycho-physical techniques. Those who take 1714 2.3.2 | accusation that he had “psychologised” Christianity was that “ 1715 2.3.2 | Jung, indeed, “not only psychologized esotericism but he also 1716 4 | on religious matters, the publicity material for meditation 1717 2.3.4.1 | sense of purification as punishment, but as a gradual ascent 1718 3.4 | meditation techniques need to be purged of presumption and pretentiousness. 1719 4 | applied to biblical texts to purify Christianity of the formal 1720 7.2 | few cases, myths of racial purity.(105) ~New Age Music: this 1721 1.4 | New Age” for commercial purposes. But the links with those 1722 6.2 | institutions are actively pursuing campaigns which promote 1723 7.2 (102)| Movement, see Elizabeth Puttick, “Personal Development: 1724 2.5 | of grudging acceptance or putting up with the idiosyncrasies 1725 2.3.4.1 | they are considered to be qualitatively superior to other natural 1726 2.1 | Newtonian mechanistic physics to quantum physics;~– from modernity' 1727 2.3.1 | of the times in the last quarter of the twentieth century. 1728 2.1 | 1970s still survives in some quarters; but now, it is no longer 1729 7.2 | with every element of this quasi-transcendent authority. When one understands 1730 2.3.1 | global network which assumes quasi-transcendental authority. Its clearest 1731 4.0 (66) | Collection Encyclopédique Que sais-je?), p. 14. ~ 1732 9.2 | Beleuchtung, Stuttgart (Quell Verlag) 1988. ~Edwin Schur, 1733 5 | simply something that will quench our thirst today, but the 1734 8 | per i cristiani, Brescia (Queriniana) 1988. ~“Theologie für Laien” 1735 2.1 (15) | Marilyn Ferguson sent a questionnaire to 210 “persons engaged 1736 2.1 (20) | lyrics of this song, which quickly imprinted themselves on 1737 2.4 | correct to suggest that quietism is universal in New Age 1738 2.3.1 | entrenched in the status quo. What has been successful 1739 2.4 (47) | désordre mondial,~op. cit. This quotation is translated from the Italian, 1740 2.3 (32) | non-sectarian education. Hanegraaff quotes J. Gordon Melton's description 1741 7.2 | in a few cases, myths of racial purity.(105) ~New Age Music: 1742 2.3.2 | signify the desire for a radically new world. The two centres 1743 1.5 | later. But bookshops and radio stations, and the plethora 1744 4 | involved in them not to raise doctrinal questions; but, 1745 7.2 | spirituality' in a situation which raises questions about personal 1746 7.2 | truths. The chief figure is Ralph Waldo Emerson, who moved 1747 1.2 | expansion of New Age sources ranging from the serious to the 1748 1.1 | and are not inclined to rank “official” judgements above 1749 2.5 | way of proving that such a rapid spread of ideas is either 1750 1.1 | influence is clear from the rapidly-growing numbers of people who claim 1751 4.0 (85) | New Age Movement, Grand Rapids (Baker) 1990, p. 129. ~ 1752 6.1 | initially was confined to the rarefied realms of those who go beyond 1753 2 | necessarily know each other and rarely, if ever, meet. In an attempt 1754 2.2.4 | and the spirit of modern rationalism are blamed particularly 1755 7.2 (99) | Vernant et al., Divination et Rationalité, Paris (Seuil) 1974, p. 1756 6.1 | for a fully human life. Rationality has the advantage of universality: 1757 2.2 (24) | and various attempts to “re-enchant” it. Blavatsky rejected 1758 4 | cross is either denied or re-interpreted to exclude the idea that 1759 4 | exercise is that we should re-invent our selves, there is a real 1760 2.4 | holistic paradigm, and a re-statement of the classical philosophical 1761 2.2.1 | and other techniques for reaching altered states of consciousness. 1762 5 | matter of letting people react in their own way, at their 1763 2.5 | issue. Some groups have reacted to New Age with sweeping 1764 4 | ourselves, when our choice and reactions flow spontaneously from 1765 2.3.4.3 | transformation. We are learning to read tendencies, to recognise 1766 5 | After her initial shock at realising what Jesus knew about her (“ 1767 7.2 | as separate or distinct realities. ~Feng-shui: a form of 1768 7.1 | because there is one single reality-energy); ~*ecological (earth-Gaia 1769 2.3.4.3 | that it cannot happen. Such reasoning is really gnostic, in the 1770 2.3.4.1 | becomes the symbol of a rebellion against conventions and 1771 2.2.3 | liberation from the need to be reborn. What is different in most 1772 7.2 | odds with faith. Some see a reborth of gnostic ideas in much 1773 6.1 | of our opportunities to recall what is promised by God 1774 2.1 | Christianity, is the total recasting of the life and significance 1775 | recent 1776 7.2 | historical inevitability. Some reckon the age of Aries was the 1777 7.2 | The Enneagram,(97) but she recognises her indebtedness to the 1778 3.5 | divine or, more precisely, recognising and accepting that we are 1779 Fwd | and women. It should be recognized that the attraction that 1780 2.3 (34) | value of the sacrament of reconciliation” (p. 12). He also lists 1781 7.2 | influential on Shamanism and “reconstructed” forms of Paganism like 1782 2.1 (21) | engaged in a fundamental reconstruction of their basic premises”. 1783 7.2 | neo-pagan” religions are recent reconstructions whose authentic relationship 1784 2.4 | language of addiction and recovery. References to extra-European 1785 4 | personal sin, can only be rectified by God's action: sin is 1786 7.2 | psyche; they appear in the recurrent motifs or images in dreams, 1787 2.3.4.3 | creation.(40)~One of the recurring themes in New Age writings 1788 Fwd | which are the principal redactors for this project), the Congregation 1789 4 | also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ”.(82) ~* 1790 4.0 (84) | Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio (7 December 1990), 1791 2 | are trying to discover or rediscover a spiritual dimension in 1792 2.4 | profane, past and present, all redolent of Hegel's “unhappy consciousness”. 1793 1.5 | medicine and psychiatry; reductionism, which refuses to take into 1794 6.2 | and spirituality, and of reflecting critically on New Age thought 1795 2.3.1 | theosophical movement, and it “reflects the growing awareness of 1796 2.2.3 | as orgonomy, Feldenkrais, reflexology, Rolfing, polarity massage, 1797 1.5 | psychiatry; reductionism, which refuses to take into consideration 1798 7.2 | in common: eclecticism, a refutation of ontological dualism, 1799 1 | with the Catholic faith and refuting the positions espoused by 1800 6.1 | 8 an indication is given regarding the principal documents 1801 2.4 | there is a great deal of regret at the effects of disunity 1802 7.2 | more perfect state. What is reincarnated is essentially something 1803 8 | Danneels, Au-delà de la mort: réincarnation et resurrection, Pastoral 1804 8 | Schönborn, Risurrezione e reincarnazione, (Italian translation) Casale 1805 6.1 | and psychology needs to be reinforced – in the appropriate way – 1806 4 | Are we encouraged to reject or accept suffering and 1807 2.3.2 | first objective implicitly rejects the 'irrational bigotry' 1808 2.1 | our culture, in the way we relate to the world; this is particularly 1809 2.5 | unite humanity. Closely related to this is a very concerted 1810 6.2 | clearly determines whether it relates to the God revealed by Jesus 1811 1.1 | particularly in questions relating to their identity.(1) Some 1812 2.2.1 | pick and choose from in relation to your own attraction/repulsion 1813 2.1 | have become clearer only relatively recently. The idealism of 1814 4 | into the cosmic self, the relativisation or abolition of difference 1815 2.2 (24) | correspondences, and Jung emphatically relativised causality in favour of the 1816 6.1 | Revelation”, “they tend to relativize religious doctrine in favor 1817 2.2.1 | non-religiously' to help in relaxation aimed at better decision-making 1818 7.2 | of groups promoting the release of the innate human capacity 1819 2.3.4.1 | meditation, body harmony, releasing self-healing energies). 1820 4 | consideration of them, much to the relieved surprise of the Psalmist ( 1821 8 | Ökumenische Arbeitsgruppe “Neue Religiöse Bewegungen in der Schweiz”, 1822 8 | Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag) 1987 = La nuova religiosità: una sfida per i cristiani, 1823 8 | Josef Südbrack, SJ, Neue Religiosität - Herausforderung für die 1824 8 | Jésus dans la nouvelle religiosité, Paris (Desclée) 1987. ~ 1825 9.2 | Católica diante do pluralismo religioso do Brasil (III). Estudos 1826 2 | broader context of esoteric religiousness, whose appeal continues 1827 2.3.4.1 | enlightenment. Peak-experiences (reliving one's birth, travelling 1828 Fwd | Like him, we want to rely “on the perennial freshness 1829 6.2 | Apostolic Letter the Holy Father remarks on the great interest in 1830 4 | personal failure or sin. The remedy is to become more and more 1831 4 | regard, it is useful to remember the exhortation of St. Paul “ 1832 1.1 | of both.( 2) It is worth remembering that deviations within Christianity 1833 2.3.4.1 | spark, in a sense which is reminiscent of ancient gnosticism; this 1834 2.3.4.1 | people. This is all far removed from the message of peace 1835 2.3.1 | Judaism and Christianity, and removes the prospect of being judged 1836 Fwd | capacity to transform and renew those who accept it” (AAS 1837 1.4 | this will lead toward a renewal of religion. It is only 1838 3.3 | as a pattern which can be repeated in many people, places and 1839 7.2 | meditative and rhythmic repetition of key phrases. As with 1840 2.1 | age of Pisces is due to be replaced by the New Age of Aquarius 1841 2.2.2 | garden and Feng Shui (23) represent a variety of ways which 1842 2.4 | Individuals are fragmentary representations of the planetary hologram; 1843 4 | New Age techniques is to reproduce mystical states at will, 1844 2.3.4.3 | in the style of Plato's Republic, run by secret societies...”.(39) 1845 2.2.1 | relation to your own attraction/repulsion mechanisms”.(22) These spiritual 1846 4 | words to an objective set of requirements which are part of an objective 1847 2.3.1 | fascination with nature and resacralisation of the earth, Mother Earth 1848 6.2 | on trust, so we need to resist the pressures of the dominant 1849 2.3.1 | formulate, and its enactment is resisted by older forms of thought 1850 2.5 | look for an alternative, resolutely optimistic relationship 1851 7.2 | particularly Marxism). Its claim to resolve all dualism leaves no room 1852 7.1 | outer personality into a resonance of love. ~*All souls in 1853 2.4 | that New Age trainings also resonate with somewhat more humanistic 1854 7.2 | Alexandrian hermeticism is a major resource for modern esotericism, 1855 2 | meaning and sense in life; it respects the fact that many within 1856 2.1 (15) | following is interesting: “When respondents were asked to name individuals 1857 7.2 | idea of the fall and later restoration of mankind. Hermetic speculation 1858 7.2 | In New Age, it is a state resulting from a new awareness of 1859 7.2 | actions can accelerate or retard their progress. The whole 1860 2.4 | Findhorn's “Spirit of Business” retreat transforms the experience 1861 1.4 | among Catholics, even in retreat-houses, seminaries and institutes 1862 2 | films, seminars, workshops, retreats, therapies, and many more 1863 6.2 | believing in Christ, the revealer of the Father and the Savior 1864 4 | his only-begotten Son. By revealing himself God wishes to make 1865 4 | canon of Scripture. Other revelations about Jesus, made available 1866 7.2 | but the “great days” go in reverse order, so the current Age 1867 7.2 | heritage of the West, many have revisited ancient indigenous, traditional, 1868 6.2 | a question of constantly revisiting the sources of our own faith, 1869 2.1 | all this no longer seems revolutionary; “spiritual” and “mystical” 1870 6.1 | refuge in a westernised reworking of the notion of reincarnation 1871 2.4 | this really fit in with the rhetoric of democratic participation 1872 4.0 (85) | Cf. R. Rhodes, The Counterfeit Christ 1873 7.2 | there is meditative and rhythmic repetition of key phrases. 1874 7.3 | 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price, whose main aim was 1875 2 | basically an exaltation of the richness of human experience. It 1876 1.2 | from the serious to the ridiculous. People need, and have a 1877 2.5 | self-consciously based on “right-brain” intuitive thinking. And 1878 6.2 | Father – in order to judge rightly the intention of a “prayer 1879 2 | movements, like the Civil Rights movement or the Peace Movement; 1880 9.1 | Science, Society and the Rising Culture,~Toronto (Bantam) 1881 8 | Christoph von Schönborn, Risurrezione e reincarnazione, (Italian 1882 2.1 (14) | Accepted Scottish Masonic Rite in the southern jurisdiction 1883 2.3.4.2 | to ancient agricultural rites and to fertility cults. “ 1884 7.2 | spirits of dead people through ritualised possession (by the spirits) 1885 8 | October 1996. ~Norberto Rivera Carrera, Instrucción Pastoral 1886 2.3.1 | generations was suddenly robbed of significance and respect, 1887 2.3.4.1 | symbolism in some varieties of rock music, which have a powerful 1888 2.1 (15) | Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Aldous Huxley, Robert Assagioli, 1889 2.2.3 | Feldenkrais, reflexology, Rolfing, polarity massage, therapeutic 1890 7.2 | healing. There is also a romanticised image of indigenous religions 1891 9.2 | Paris (Fayard) 1998. ~Arild Romarheim, The Aquarian Christ. Jesus 1892 7.2 | resolve all dualism leaves no room for a transcendent God, 1893 7.2 | and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) linked success 1894 4 | buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of 1895 7.2 | interpretations of scripture. The Rosicrucian Fellowship contributed to 1896 1.3 | gained currency through Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, at the 1897 7.2 | from one body to another. ~Rosicrucians: these are Western occult 1898 3.3 (58) | San Francisco (Harper & Row) 1988, p. 135. ~ 1899 2.3.4.3 | institutions with which to rule, in other words, a world 1900 7.2 | refers to a current that runs parallel to New Age and 1901 9.2 | Tiding) 1992. ~Hans-Jürgen Ruppert, Durchbruch zur Innenwelt. 1902 8 | Cristianismo. Entre el diálogo y la ruptura, Madrid (BAC) 1995. ~André 1903 2.1 (15) | Whitehead, Martin Buber, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, 1904 2.3.2 | these men contributed to a “sacralisation of psychology”, something 1905 2.3.2 | esotericism but he also sacralized psychology, by filling it 1906 3.5 | by participation in the sacramental life of the Church.~ ~ 1907 6.2 | Jesus in prayer and in the sacraments, which are precisely the 1908 7.2 | ritual action, especially sacrifice, by means of which a person 1909 4 | and together with all the saints”.(77) ~* Are we tempted 1910 4.0 (66) | Collection Encyclopédique Que sais-je?), p. 14. ~ 1911 7.2 | Christ), Karma lost its salvific meaning: the way to liberation 1912 4.0 (82) | Letter on human suffering “Salvifici doloris” (11 February 1984), 1913 5 | of his encounter with the Samaritan woman by Jacob's well in 1914 7.2 | etc.). ~Karma: (from the Sanskrit root Kri = action, deed) 1915 8 | y Principales Desafíos, Santafé de Bogotá (CELAM) 1996. ~ 1916 9.2 | Estudos da CNBB n. 71, São Paulo (paulus) 1994. ~World 1917 2.3.4.1 | extreme forms is Satanism. Satan becomes the symbol of a 1918 2.3.4.1 | presence of what they claim is Satanic symbolism in some varieties 1919 2.3.4.1 | of its extreme forms is Satanism. Satan becomes the symbol 1920 2.4 | mainstream need to succeed, inner satisfaction with outer success; Findhorn' 1921 1.5 | elsewhere if they are not satisfied by the Church. There is 1922 6.2 | for spiritual food that satisfies, for living water. Following 1923 6.2 | revealer of the Father and the Savior of the world, have a duty 1924 6.1 | is always to overcome the scandal of division, but in New 1925 4 | laws of nature. In this scenario, Christianity has to be 1926 2.3.4.3 | paradigm. We create alternative scenarios of the future. We communicate 1927 1.5 | of the current cultural scene.~The success of New Age 1928 1.4 (5) | Gilbert Markus o.p., “Celtic Schmeltic”, (1) in Spirituality, vol. 1929 8 | January 1996. ~Christoph von Schönborn, Risurrezione e reincarnazione, ( 1930 7.2 | Gardner, who based it on some scholarly texts, according to which 1931 9.2 | article “New Age” by Christoph Schorsch, Karl R. Essmann and Medard 1932 8 | Religiöse Bewegungen in der Schweiz”, New Age – aus christlicher 1933 2.3.2 | science' meant the occult sciences and philosophy the occulta 1934 6.1 | respect and the second with scorn” (Lk 16.13). Christians 1935 2.1 (14) | by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Masonic Rite in the southern 1936 1.1 | loneliness is very much a scourge of modern life), and are 1937 4 | approach grows out of the Scriptural teachings about human nature; 1938 6.1 | needs to be very carefully scrutinised. It hides rather than reveals 1939 4 | person). A genuine Christian searches for unity in the capacity 1940 4 | ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the 1941 8 | Theologie für Laien” secretariat, Faszination Esoterik, Zürich ( 1942 2.3.2 | irrational bigotry' and 'sectarianism' of traditional Christianity 1943 3.4 (61) | Ibid.,3. See the sections on meditation and contemplative 1944 2.3.2 | seen by some as completely secularised. Alchemy, magic, astrology 1945 4 | practices, which are a block to seeing in New Age a genuine spiritual 1946 5 | who are genuinely still seeking the truth. They should be 1947 | seemed 1948 7.2 | 7.2. A Select Glossary ~Age of Aquarius: 1949 2.5 | practices, which are often selected and combined at will, irrespective 1950 2.5 | interpersonal in only a very selective sense.~New Age has become 1951 2.3.4.1 | hence one can speak of a self- creating self. On this view, 1952 3.4 | which obstruct a trusting self-abandonment to God and openness to other 1953 2.5 | expected in a world- view self-consciously based on “right-brain” intuitive 1954 3.4 | prayer is not an exercise in self-contemplation, stillness and self-emptying, 1955 2.3.4.1 | people to acquire further self-control and psychic concentration 1956 5 | question of deceit or of self-deception. It is also important to 1957 3.2 | inasmuch as it does not involve self-denial. The dream of mystical union 1958 3.4 | self-contemplation, stillness and self-emptying, but a dialogue of love, 1959 4 | writers view suffering as self-imposed, or as bad karma, or at 1960 4 | is not found simply in a self-induced transformation of consciousness, 1961 3.4 | sin, spiritual myopia and self-infatuation, all of which obstruct a 1962 5 | the one who strives for self-knowledge, like the woman at the well, 1963 4 | in New Age is unashamedly self-promotion, but some leading figures 1964 5 | the challenging process of self-recognition (“he told me every thing 1965 1.1 | Freedom, authenticity, self-reliance and the like are all held 1966 5 | adoration in Spirit and the self-revelation of Jesus as God's Anointed. ~ 1967 2.3.4.1 | hidden within themselves (self-salvation), by mastering psycho- physical 1968 2.3.4.3 | is uncreated, eternal and self-sufficient The future of the world 1969 6.1 | transcendence is strictly a self-transcendeence to be achieved within a 1970 2.3.2 | consciousness and the experience of self-transcendence. Two of those she mentioned 1971 7.2 | Hence they are useful in self-transformation. They are used in various 1972 4 | all our needs, shows the selfishness at the heart of this New 1973 4 | marketing strategy to make them sell better, but are not truly 1974 2.4 | used to be known as “Erhard seminar trainings” [EST] etc.) marry 1975 1.4 | even in retreat-houses, seminaries and institutes of formation 1976 2 | varied as music, films, seminars, workshops, retreats, therapies, 1977 7.1 | perceive it with the five human senses or with scientific instruments, 1978 6.1 | in life, a new ecological sensivity and the desire to go beyond 1979 4 | material. Rebirth, biofeedback, sensory isolation, holotropic breathing, 1980 2.1 (15) | late 1977, Marilyn Ferguson sent a questionnaire to 210 “ 1981 2.2.3 | of hell. When the soul is separated from the body individuals 1982 7.2 | a way of overcoming the separation between subjects and between 1983 2 | Christians to take the New Age seriously, and as such asks its readers 1984 6.2 | task is to know, love and serve Jesus Christ, it is of paramount 1985 7.2 | spirits) of a shaman, who serves as a medium. It has been 1986 4 | offense against God... sin sets itself against God's love 1987 7.2 (99) | Divination et Rationalité, Paris (Seuil) 1974, p. 55. ~ 1988 2.1 (20) | When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns 1989 7.2 | characteristics of both sexes, but an awareness of the 1990 2.3.4.1 | altering the natural rules of sexuality, defying the limits of death.~ 1991 8 | La nuova religiosità: una sfida per i cristiani, Brescia ( 1992 7.2 | matriarchal, magical or Shamanic. Humanity will, it is said, 1993 9.1 | Eastern Mysticism, Berkeley (Shambhala) 1975. ~Fritjof Capra, The 1994 1.1 | and the Reformation have shaped the modern western individual, 1995 4 | suffering can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering 1996 5 | meetings with Jesus, from the shepherds in Bethlehem to the two 1997 4 | yourself”.(78) Authority has shifted from a theistic location 1998 6.1 | devours it. The star that shines in this infinite inner world 1999 4 | social commitment something shirked or positively sought after? ~ 2000 5 | listen. After her initial shock at realising what Jesus 2001 6.2 | lead” (n. 33). To those shopping around in the world's fair 2002 8 | Facing West from California's Shores. A Jesuit's Journey into 2003 2.5 (50) | The shortcomings of techniques which are 2004 7.2 | doctrines, but later studies showed they dated from the first 2005 7.2 | of the enneagram remains shrouded in mystery, but some maintain