In three entries - today, to be an introduction and two more, I decided to share his thoughts on a few misunderstandings related nujuejdżem, which I continue to call the NA, the New Age Movement, Movement, New Age English Movement (NAM) and sometimes the Aquarian Age Movement.
Without introduction, in which I explain how I understand the same phenomenon of what I write could be misunderstood. And it comes to really important matters.
subject which I wish to write definition causes problems. In fact, quite reasonably could conclude that such a thing as New Age Movement is simply not there. There is no, at least partially coherent religious movement, intellectual, social or spiritual, which would include all the phenomena known as such by its critics as well as by supporters. Between the preachers of various monistic philosophy, between the scientists and philosophers trying to describe such phenomena as consciousness, self and free will, which differs from the traditional interpretation of the Christian churches and supporters various superstitions, "alternative" forms of medicine, astrology and other divination techniques, yet there is often no "point of contact." If - as it wants to Robert Tekieli - will attach to all lovers of the eastern U.S. schools fight karate, judo, aikido, or yogis, vegetarians, water diviners, the rise of horribly blurred picture.
To complicate matters, that we the supporters and leaders of the Movement, as its precursor show a person in the views which - even with the best will - it is really hard to find any spiritual or intellectual "common denominator". What is to combines Carl Gustav Jung and Joseph Campbell with David Bohm, Werner Heisenberg, or Alfred Whitehead? What these last lines of Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, or? What about DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, or William Blake?
need a more precise definition of the movement than the one that says, for example, it covers everything that you do not like Robert Tekieli. It is also not satisfactory - though certainly a bit more precise - a definition that the U.S. recognizes what she liked Ms. Ferguson or what do you like Capra. However, neither the leaders nor the opponents of the New Age Movement is unwilling or unable to help you determine What really is ON.
For the purposes of this post so I did as the broad definition of NAM, knowing that it will exclude many of which are sometimes as njuejdżowców sets.
njuejdżem So I called the set of phenomena on the borderline of spirituality, religion, philosophy and culture (especially popular culture), the basic - the representative of the vast majority of leaders and followers - are determinants:
• monism • affirmation of the myths
• openness
• naive historical optimism.
In further entries accurately explain how to understand these concepts.
course, one might add, and other determinants of the Movement, such as general fascination with the Orient, environmentalism, feminism (but peculiar, njuejdżowy feminism), emphasizing the need to man's spiritual self-improvement (and sometimes touching on faith in the possibility of some form of "self-salvation"), obsessed with point diet (kosher or as if new, even for non-Jews), but they will be even more distinguishing features simplistic definition, and using less specific and probably not very interesting.
important and worth mentioning is that the NA is a Western phenomenon (occurring in America and Europe).
Within NA, there are two levels: high and low - esoteric and exoteric - the competent intellectuals and competent masses. The first is the variety of concepts (or maybe ideas) philosophy (or the borderline of philosophy and other fields of physics, anthropology, religious studies, psychology), characteristic of the NA. For this second level are all practices of divination, astrology, occultism or, like the belief in amulets, homeopathy and other forms of "alternative medicine" or the belief in reincarnation. The next two entries I want to focus more on this "high" level of the second, only mention.
NA is a syncretic - combines elements of various (often contradictory) systems. The conflict of tradition, of which only selected elements, moreover, need not necessarily lead to a contradiction of their synthesis, therefore, I would not do this syncretism objection to the NAM.
important and which is the strength of the New Age Movement is that it is commercial traffic, and thus self-financing. This definition
NAM seems very good - covers the vast majority of both phenomena associated with the Movement and those who could be regarded as its representatives or leaders, left outside the margin of those who are confident and so could not really identify with him. There also creates an internal conflict that could become a basis to challenge any court of the phenomenon. It is precise enough to be a starting point for further discussion.
Its adoption means the recognition that the yogis, karate, judokas, dowsers, or followers of astrology, numerology, divination from the flight of birds, coffee or tea leaves from tea leaves from tea, supporters of homeopathy, Chinese medicine, Thai, Columbian, space, or any other, can be regarded as only njuejdżowców when they identify with the philosophy of monism, or at least to some myth illustrating this philosophy, if you curious about their pagan beliefs, myths and legends, and proclaim their wisdom, if you often repeat the word "Tolerance" (uppercase!) and stress that every way of life Each belief is somehow excusable if finally proclaim belief that the world is entering a new era of greater depth of spirituality. However, if either of these criteria do not comply, then the Yogis are plain, judokami, kabalistami, astrologers, or philo-homeopaths.
