New Age Definition:
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New Age spirituality often incorporates aspects of the Earth, Moon,
and outer space; the term New Age refers to the coming Astrological
Age of Aquarius.[1]
The New Age (also known as the New Age Movement, New Age
spirituality,
and Cosmic Humanism) is a decentralized Western social and spiritual
movement that seeks "Universal Truth" and the attainment of the
highest individual human potential. It combines aspects of cosmology,
astrology, esotericism, alternative medicine, music, collectivism,
sustainability, and nature. New Age spirituality is characterized by
an individual approach to spiritual practices and philosophies, while
rejecting religious doctrine and dogma.
The New Age Movement includes elements of older spiritual and
religious traditions ranging from atheism and monotheism through
classical pantheism, naturalistic pantheism, and panentheism to
polytheism combined with science and Gaia philosophy: particularly
archaeoastronomy, astronomy, ecology, environmentalism, the Gaia
hypothesis, psychology, and physics. New Age practices and
philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions:
Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, MysticalChristianity, Hinduism,
Islam, Judaism (mystical), with particularly strong influences from
East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought,
Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism, and Western esotericism.[2]
Additional phrases which may refer to the New Age Movement include
All
is One[3] and Mind-Body-Spirit.[1]
The modern New Age Movement emerged as a distinct lifestyle from the
late 1960s through the early 1970s, although elements can be traced
back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. It gained momentum in the
1980s and strengthened with the Harmonic Convergence event in 1987.
Diverse individuals from around the world practice New
Age spirituality.
Exopolitics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exopolitics_Institute#Exopolitics
The concept of Exopolitics was formulated by Michael Salla. He
authored a book on exopolitics in which he claims that a 1954 dentist
appointment by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a cover for a
secret meeting with extraterrestrials.[10]
Salla claims that President Eisenhower "met with two ETs with white
hair, pale blue eyes and colorless lips," referred to by alien
enthusiasts as "Nordics." He told the Washington Post that "The
"Nordics" offered to share their superior technology and their
spiritual wisdom with Ike if he would agree to eliminate America's
nuclear weapons." Salla says the President declined the offer.[10] He
also told the newspaper that President Eisenhower had agreed with
another race of aliens that they could take livestock and humans with
them for the purposes of experiments. He estimated that those aliens
had taken "millions" of humans.
Salla admitted to the Washington Post that the evidence supporting his
claims about the existence of aliens was found by him "on the
internet." [10]
[edit] Meetings and goals
Advocates for exopolitics and the existence of extraterrestrials have
speculated about establishing relations with extraterrestrials and
taking advantage of their presumed knowledge of sustainable energy
sources and other matters of global importance.[11] Former Canadian
Defence Minister Paul Hellyer joined three fringe groups in urging the
Canadian parliament to hold public hearings on exopolitics in 2005.
[12]
The fifth X-Conference event was attended by 400 people at a hotel's
banquet hall in suburban Maryland.[13] Its attendees included 2008
Utah Congressional Candidate Joseph Buchman, hypnotherapist Rebecca
Hardcastle, Alfred Webre, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, US Air
Force pilot Milton Tores and Salla himself. The conference included
lectures on document disclosure, discussions of black budgets and
quantum cosmology, and the sale of books such as Exopolitics: How Does
One Speak to a Ball of Light?. [13] Advocates of exopolitics want
mankind to deal with "rule of law in outer space, the sharing of
technology between civilisations, and the physics of one-on-one
interaction with ETs".[13
PREMISES OF THE NEW AGE WORLD VIEW and it's connection to spirit
guides and UFO entities.
The New Age World view is Syncretistic. In other words it blends
elements of other world views. Russell Chandler, author of
"Understanding the New Age", suggests the following beliefs make up
some but not all of the components of this movement:
- All is One (monism). The Cosmos is pure, undifferentiated,
universal
energy - a consciousness or "life force". Everything is one vast,
interconnected process. All life is of equal value.
- All is God (pantheism). God is an impersonal principal, a
consciousness, life-force, Energy. Everything that is, is God.
- Humans, nature, spirits, ET's, the earth, etc. are infused with or
of the same essence as God. (polytheism). Humans have unlimited
potentials being one with the One." We are God, "affirms many within
this movement. Other enlighten beings, entities, etc. which share
this
divinity can also guide, instruct and empower those who opened the
door to other side. Paranormal experiences are often sought and
experienced when encountering these guides, assorted spirits, ET's
and
nature spirits or fairies, pagan gods and goddesses, beings within
the
earth.
Some of these spiritual beings can and are interacting with people,
crops and animals.
They can create crop-circles and other signs and other paranormal and
other manifestations and apparitions.
- All religions are essentially One. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Lao-tsu,
and all the mystics old and new, realized and taught this Oneness.
All
spiritual paths are equally valid. Dogmas and doctrines which cause
separation should be de-emphasized in favor of personal or communal
unitive experiences of at-one-ness. There is a need, say some, for a
New Age which will banish intolerance and promote harmony and unity.
Reincarnation is believed to explain suffering and karma. Some new
age
ufo cult leaders are telling devotees that certain god like aliens
created the
human race and had something to do with all our world religions.
- Humanity's problem is not sin but ignorance. We have forgotten we
are one with God and we ...have infinite potential at our fingertips
if we allow it to flow. Therefore we need to reject the self
limitations and beliefs of the old ways of perception and embrace a
"paradigm shift': a distinct new way of thinking.
- How does humanity embark upon a paradigm shift? Through an
"awakening experience" each individual may "actualize" his or her
divine nature and achieve union with his or her divine nature with
the
Ultimate Unifying Principle by applying a plethora of consciousness-
changing techniques, or 'psycho technologies', to body mind and
spirit.
- Some examples of what Ferguson calls "intentional triggers of
transformative experiences" are: meditation, Yoga, chanting, mood-
altering music, mind expanding drugs, esoteric systems of religious
mysticism and knowledge, guided imagery, balancing and
aligning"energies," hypnosis, body disciplines...radical seminars
designed to obliterate former values, etc...The pathway to godhood
lies not in left-hemisphere logic but in right hemisphere's intuitive
'knowing' and creativeness.'
- The sequel to expanded personal awareness is planetary
transformation, characterized by mass enlightenment and social
evolution.... Many of the world's problems: overpopulation, the
environmental crisis, war, economic problems etc. may be solved by
realizing our Oneness and untapped potentials. A New Planetary Order
or New World Order which calls for an emerging global civilization
and
one world government is in the agenda. When a "critical mass" is
achieved through world wide New Age events like the Harmonic
Convergence, or the World Peace Meditations, or Mind Body
Conferences,
Earth Day, etc...then we will arrive at the New Age. Millions have
already participated in these events and some of them are annual and
ongoing..there are countless new age communities, conferences,
peoples, and publications in many countries "networking" to achieve
critical mass or the "Hundredth Monkey Effect" as it often called.
Although at this present time there is no one leading group or
individual guiding this movement...it, never-the-less through
networking... is becoming a powerful force in society and the world.
Many within the new age movement are encountering or inviting spirit
guides and so called alien entities to help them achieve spiritual
enlightenment and a vision of utopia on earth. Many within the
Exopolitics
movement have the hope that enlightened ET's will help
solve our problems, and help mankind evolve to a higher level of
consciousness.
With help from so called benign ET's humans (the Space Brothers,
Nordics) will have a wonderful future and may be
invited to join some kind of Galactic Federation.
CRACKS IN THE NEW AGE WORLD VIEW
- the assumption that all is One and it's implications are not true.
If God is impersonal or all is One, there is no basis for absolutes
in
terms of truth, ethics or understanding reality. Reality, truth or
right or wrong becomes whatever a New Age person perceives it to be.
A
Oneness which encompasses all and is all must also embrace evil.
Ethical relativism is illogical and unworkable. Try it sometime in a
relationship or in society and see the fruit of anarchy and chaos...
Nor do we need arbitrary absolutes given to us by an authoritarian
elite...If there is no higher law than the state or an New Age elite
then democracy is obsolete...we must return to the concept of Lex Rex
which states that those that govern are also subject to revealed
moral
laws...If All is One, then there is no difference between cruelty and
non cruelty...Charles Manson said "if all is One then nothing is
wrong"...he was more consistent with his pantheistic beliefs than
most
new age people you meet.
- Man nor ET is God. Human imperfection, finitude, fallibility, and
fallenness are the observable human condition. Humanity may with
God's
grace may become more saintly..ie. God's Spirit may enable men and
women to bear the fruits of peace, love, goodness and experience
God's
miracles of healing etc... but man will not attain Godhood. The
finite
will not become the infinite. We have potential not unlimited
potential. Where is evidence of human perfection or compassion in
Roman Caesars or others who also claimed to be God? ...all you see is
human folly and the corruption of power.
- There are distinctions within the created order. Not all life is of
equal value as taught by new age Deep Ecologists or sometime by
reincarnation believers. Relativism-plugged into reincarnation
theory-
denigrates the value of human life by reducing all life to the lowest
level. . Although all life is to valued as part of nature, nature is
not perfect and can produce pestilence and harmful mutations..perhaps
we are reaping the fruit of this as man tries to play God tinkering
with genetic engineering...or planting new species in the wrong eco-
systems. Pantheism says all life is equal...so man becomes no more
valuable than the grass we trample on or burn...
- Jesus did not teach that all paths lead to a pantheistic Oneness or
that man will achieve Godhood. (see John 14, Matt 7:14,) His teaching
has to be distorted to suggest that Christ taught New Age philosophy
as many within New Age circles try to imply...by taking his teaching
out of context. Not all religions promote pantheistic monistic
beliefs...as suggested by uninformed teachers within the movement...
-The Altered State of consciousness reached through meditation and
other psycho technologies often negates critical thinking and reason,
often dulling the individual's ability to discern between truth and
deception. It also allows for the possibility to contact deceptive or
masquerading spirits (many within the movement acknowledge the
existence of negative or evil entities) or be possessed by them as
may
happen in the channeling phenomena. A old proverb states "a man
without self-control is like a town without defenses". A person in
ASC
who is passive is more vulnerable to suggestibility and outside
control by whatever controllers human or non human that might happen
to be around. Real spirituality involves the mind, intellect and
heart...critical thinking, not skepticism or mind-less-ness is -
necessary for spiritual discernment.
- Utopian notions of man and utopian New Age political goals may lead
to totalitarian systems that would grow increasingly intolerant of
those who would criticize it. It was the belief in the fallenness and
fallibility of human leadership in Europe during the Reformation and
afterwards that led to ideas of democracy and freedom, as well as the
need for checks and balances in government 7. This may be lost as New
Age ideas are more and more embraced in society. Some kind of
hierarchy of so called "enlightened" beings are trying to guide us
into the NEW AGE claim many within this movement. The question is how
do we know that the spirit guides, ET's or whatever, are what they
appear to be...there is growing evidence that they are not so
enlightened after all, and may have some other more sinister motives
in mind when providing guidance and so called "transformative"
experiences.
-Within the Exopolitics movement and ufo cults there
are high expectations that aliens are going help mankind usher in a
utopian Star Trek future.
The survival of the human race, we are told, isdependent of
establishing more enlightened contact with ET's
through channeling, telepathy, mental intent, meditation. etc.
For example check: http://www.exopolitics.org/links.htm#Channels
and http://www.eceti.org/
Dr. Steven Greer, who created CSeti and is founder of "The
Disclosure
Project"
is promoting protocols to establish ongoing contact with ET's which
the Cseti group claims they have already encountered.
The following isDr. StevenGreer's YouTube video from the Barcelona
Disclosure Conference (July 2009)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oLJNfs_rM).
Joe Jordon, a Florida state director and investigator for MUFON
warns
that the ufo abduction phenomena has a dark spiritual component and
that many ufo contactees and
abductees have had previous involvement with new age beliefs and the
occult.
http://vimeo.com/5902168
- Reincarnation and evolutionary beliefs instead of bringing real
love
and unity to mankind may create elitist feelings and a callowness to
human suffering. Karma supposedly determines a persons caste or
position in life. To try to help those who are suffering, is to
interfere with their karma. Unenlightened people are already called
"cancer cells"2.* in body of Gaia by some within the movement...with
the implication that a "cleansing" is coming or needed..we heard that
before from Adolf Hitler...who in his time wanted to usher in a New
Age..(Hitler also claimed he was guided by voices from the other
side) ..There are presently some prominent leaders guided by powerful
entities in this movement who are presently taking on or promoting
Messianic leadership...as well as the "cleansing concept" ..their
spirit guides are saying this is necessary...John Randolph Price, the
primary moving force behind the "World Instant of Cooperation," was
told by his favorite spirit guide, "Asher," that "nature will soon
enter her cleansing cycle...." These individuals [the two billion
human beings who do not have the 'ring of protection' around them]
with their lower vibratory rates will be removed during the next two
decades...2*. "
- Some ufo cult leaders and contactees like Rael, founder of the
Raelian movement is also warning that those that don't align
themselves with aliens he calls the Eloheim will face future
destruction. Dr.
David Jacobs, a well known abduction researcher
was also told by various ufo abductees that there is no future for
people that don't cooperate or are not useful to the alien agenda
and "Change" which is coming.
Please read some of the references listed
below ...there are many people already who are unknowingly caught up
in this spiritual Pandora's box...wake up don't be one of them.
References below:
1. The Beautiful Side of Evil - Johanna Michaelson..former assistant
to psychic healer...and Sylva Mind disciple.
2. Like Lambs to the Slaughter - Johanna Michaelson. * pp 307-310
3. Understanding the New Age - Russell Chandler , Journalist and
religion writer For Los Angeles Times.
4. Inside the New Age Nightmare - Randall N. Baer -former "crystal
power" expert and teacher. Huntington House, 1989.
5. When the World Will Be As One -The Coming NEW WORLD ORDER in the
NEW AGE by Tal Brooke - former follower of Sai Baba, presently with
The Spiritual Counterfeits Research Group - Berkeley , Calif.
6. Out on a Broken Limb - Dr. F. LaGard Smith ..Professor of Law at
Pepperdine University. Harvest House 1986.
7. Gods of the New Age 1984 -video documentary
8.For more documentation please goto: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/
and http://www.alienresistance.org/ce4.htm
9.The Alien Interviews -by L.A. Marzulli http://www.lamarzulli.net/
10. Alien Encounters - by Chuck Missler and Dr. Mark Eastman
http://www.alienencounters.com/