IS THE NEW AGE RELEVANT TODAY?Written by Chris P. Bohn
Walk into any home today and you are almost certain to find something which has been purchased from a New Age outlet. Crystals are of course everywhere. The Buddha himself may appear in home office, looking well-fed and smiling as he does duty as a paperweight or mantelpiece decoration. Wind chimes may mark entrance to a room or may be heard jangling merrily in garden. The design of either house or garden may well have been inspired by supposed minimalist principles of Zen Buddhism. You won't have to sniff too hard to catch heady aroma of incense from mysterious Orient. And if you look carefully you might even find a crystal ball or two. In one well-known UK charity shop I have even seen crystal balls stacked up next to cash register in much same way as supermarkets display shelves of sweets and chewing gum in area where you line up to pay for your groceries, cleverly taking advantage of those last minute impulse buys ("Oh, I'll just take one of those crystal balls before I leave!).Never Fear! *********** Look through phone directory and you will see hordes of jobbing alternative practitioners. Aromatherapists, Reiki experts, Shiatsu (no, it isn't a little dog!) and any number of other self-certificated experts all clamouring to have a go at curing your bad back or saving your rocky relationship. Should you lose your appointment book, never fear! Find out what future has in store by consulting someone who will (for a fee) read your Tarot cards, your palms, tea leaves or probably with a little persuasion (or an extra fee!) contents of your trash can. Doctors are yesterday's news. Better to call a hypnotherapist, colour therapist, graphologist or numerologist who can at one and same time (for a fee) tell you all about your past, your future - and whether you even have a future. Expensive ********* When you wish to relax at end of a hard day you can play special relaxation tapes of whales, waves breaking on shore or Australian aborigine didgeridoo music. Your home will of course have been designed down to smallest detail by a knowledgeable, highly-trained and very expensive Feng Shui consultant who probably charges more than your lawyer! Has world gone mad??? All of aforementioned distractions and more fit neatly into loose category of New Age. A lot of people are very serious about New Age interests and contrary to what you may think, I would be last to want to trivialise their beliefs. Whatever works for them is fine by me. Except for one thing. New Age practices have become so heavily commercialized that original spiritual components have pretty well lost their integrity by now and, in West at least, are little more than products and services in a very competitive market. Ever since Madame Blavatsky and Theosophists (the forerunners of modern New Age Movement) signed their exclusive channeling deal with so-called Ascended Masters back in nineteenth century, religious and spiritual beliefs have been borrowed haphazardly from any number of world religions. Beliefs have been ripped out of their natural environmental and historical context. Ever since, those beliefs have been blatantly sold to a spiritually vulnerable public that has a big fat disposable income and could not wait to spend it.
| | Damanhur and Time Travel (Viewing)Written by Robert Bruce Baird
This excerpt from a fictional and futuristic book of mine addresses a little of what Damanhur might be involved with. It was a beautiful spring day and tulips were starting to bloom on University Avenue, as Sean walked to meet Tony at a Thai restaurant of renown near Toronto’s first of many Chinatowns. The walk had been about two miles and his feet were sore but he enjoyed seeing people look at his new clothes and fine-trimmed beard. He had worried that seven years of being a slob and not exercising might have taken too much away from his otherwise handsome exterior. So far Tony and his associates had done all that could reasonably be expected, almost too much he thought to himself as seduction of material world things began to sweep over him while he fought it back. The gathering of a team of like-minded people crossed his mind more than once as he thought about what his on-line friend Laurent had written. The words seemed to fit with Tesla’s non-force info packets very well as he wondered if he should get Tony to initiate a contact with this physicist whose words he had committed to memory. “Inherent to wave mechanics are mechanisms of wave superposition and parallel and non-linear information processing. And these mechanisms, which are also affected and regulated by laws of thermodynamics, are responsible for information growth and evolution of biological matter. Information begets information.” As they sat testing each other’s ability to ingest hot chilies and frequent trips to washroom ensured they tripped light fantastic, they were both in ‘hog heaven’. The conversation ranged over whole field of philosophy and they enjoyed each others interests immensely. They had both studied Carlos and Toltec or Nagual’s way. “The word impeccable means 'without sin'. Sin is defined as a 'transgression against God.' As God is unknowable we are left with our nagual aspect. I would define sin as a 'transgression against our nagual aspect.' To be impeccable means to be without sin or to be in alignment with our nagual.” Tony commented. “That is a far better explanation for sin and how to find purpose than mainstream religions will allow.” “You know Corpus Hermeticum that Cosmo De Medicis had translated by Ficilio was titled De Brix?” Tony asked. “Yes and I am supposedly related to The Bruce by an illegitimate liaison. Robert Bruce was in charge of North American trade for Templar continuum and he made a Baird into a Baron. The Bairds were in charge of Nova Scotia or Bank at time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. One of these Barons died at Culloden. The House of Bruce and de Bruges or Bruttii who founded Britain are ‘tres important’. Other Kelts going back to Veneti of Cisalpine Gaul and Hallstatt in Genoese area of Legurians and others are where those De Medicis and later Rothschilds get a lot of info St. Germain more recently codified or set into occult schools.” “Your books are more than whole Corpus Hermeticum.”
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