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http://www.watchman.org/articles/new-age/repackaging-the-new-age-for-a-new-age/
7/30/2012
Watchman Fellowship, Inc. - Repackaging the New Age (for a New Age)
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moksha (liberation from the rounds of births and deaths). To the Hindus there were three basic schools, all of which claimed to lead to God-realization: dvaita (dualism), vashish advaita (qualified non-dualism),or advaita (non-dualism). The advaitists mostly referred to themselves as monists, not non-dualists. To them Brahman alone exists. Thus vast gulfs existed between Buddhists and Hindus, New Agers and Christians. New Agers, of course, kept using patchwork plagiarism to create their own synthetic generic brand of truth, their own syncretistic path, always trying to unite the disparate factions. Today they are doing soby defining "non-dualism" in this way: it "is a perspective holding ultimate reality to be of the nature of sameness or homogeneity," one 3 that "sees the traditional dichotomy of subject-object as false." The term "non-dualism" is now the rallying cry of everyone on every"path," because it satisfies everyone, offends no one, uniting all and lending credibility to their ecumenism. New Agers are thus succeeding in creating their longed-for One World Order, all "spiritual" people present, except conservative Christians because we just don't get it. In fact, as a way of leaping on the bandwagon, a "Christian," Rick Katz, hosts his own "non-dual Christianity" web site that attempts to woo unwary Christians into the new everwidening circle of cosmic, non-dual love. Every Christian who wishes to grasp the "new paradigm" (that denies any single paradigm) should study his Christian-targeted site.4 A few other related terms are worthy of note for those who would become literate in the new vocabulary intended to push us above and beyond illiteracy. Their definitions derive from the multi-layered "Nonduality Salon" website: Awakening: Progress in spiritual growth toward non-duality,i.e., the non-dual experience. Awareness: Condition of being fully, in every sense, in the here and now, the non-dual moment. Duality: Seeing two instead of one when ONE is all there really is. Enlightenment: Ultimate awakening, transcendence of perspective and awareness. Essencing: The process of everything becoming I AM. Memes: Informational patterns in the memory that need to be transcended. Standing Alone (or Free): The perspectives of the stages of non-dualism. The concept of "spiritual growth" has been gestating for a long time, and"awareness" seems to be what New Agers used to call "consciousness" (chit). But, honestly, "Seeing two" can't be all that bad: How else could we tie our shoes? The word "perspective" just seems to be another synonym for"paradigm" and "framework." The word "meme" has been loosely borrowed from linguistics and genetics (and sounds suspiciously like the "engrams" of Scientologists). But most curious of all is "essencing." One wonders howa cow, cow paddy, or cowlick could be "processing" toward becoming I AM.
http://www.watchman.org/articles/new-age/repackaging-the-new-age-for-a-new-age/
7/30/2012
Watchman Fellowship, Inc. - Repackaging the New Age (for a New Age)
Page 3 of 3
Ricardo, sad to say, had slipped beyond the reach of intelligible discussion.Too late I realized that Ricardo, though college-educated, just didn't know how to think. To him, words meant nothing or anything. Like him, I suspect, many earnest "seekers of truth" are being driven to distraction by the confusion of tongues in hyper-space. In the mean time, I'm sure, the New Age cyber-stars are reveling in their fifteen minutes of fame.
http://www.watchman.org/articles/new-age/repackaging-the-new-age-for-a-new-age/
7/30/2012