From: gordiet@intergate.bc.ca
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Subject: NEW AGE WORLD ORDER?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:57:51 -0800
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PREMISES OF THE NEW AGE WORLD VIEW
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 consiousness 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
conciousness, lifeforce, 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 unknown entities.
- All religions are essentially One. Jesus, Krishna, Buddaha, 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-empasized in
favour of personal or communal unitive experiences of at-one-ness.
There is a need, say some, for a New Age which will bannish
intolerance and promote harmony and unity. Reincarnation is
believed to expalain suffering and karma.
- 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 Prnciple by applying a
plethoria of consciousness-changing techniques, or
"psychotechnologies', 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 discipines...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
tranformation, charaterized by mass enlightment and social
evolution.... Many of the world's problems: overpopulation, the
envoirmental 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 civilizaton 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 "Hundreth Monkey Effect" as it often called.
Although at this present time there is no one leading
group or indivdual guiding this movement...it, never-the-less through
networking... is becoming a powerful force in society and the world.
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 relativsm 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 abitrary 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 cruety and non cruelty...Charles Manson said "if all
is One then nothing is wrong"...he was more consistant with his pantheistic
beliefs than most new age people you meet.
- Man is not God. Human imperfection, finitude,
falliblity, 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 Ceasars or others who also claimed to be God?
...all you see is human folly and the corruption of power.
- There are distintions within the created order. Not all life is
of equal value as taught by new age Deep Ecologists or sometime by
reincarnation beleivers. Relativism-plugged into reincarnation
theory-denigrates the value of human life by reducing all life to
the lowest level. In India, "human babies are no more important
than rats! Rats may not be killed because they are expressions of
the same universal energy that characterizes man. As a result,
rodents and other animals eat 20% of India's grain crop-food that
could be available for starving people. Recently in India bubonic plaque
has broken out again as it has in the Middle Ages due to rats growing
out of control. Although all life is to valued as part of nature, nature
is not perfect and can produce pestilance 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. Panthesism 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
distored 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 panthesitic monistic beliefs...as suggested by
uninformed teachers within the movement...
-The Altered State of conciousness reached through meditation and
other psychotechnologies often negates critical thinking and
reason, often dulling the individual's ability to discern between
truth and deception. It also allows for the possiblitiy to contact
deceptive or masquarading 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 defences". A person in ASC
who is passive is more vulnarable to suggestiblity and outside control by
whatever controllers human or non human that might happen to be around.
Real spirituallity involves the mind, intellect and heart...critical thinking,
not scepticism 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
critize it. It was the belief in the fallenness and falliblity 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 "enlighted" 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.
- 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 prominant
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*. " 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.
Many persons exploring New Age beliefs are sincere and pleasant people..
and are not throwing their lot in with the more dangerous elements of the New
Age...there are people being hurt by these beliefs and by cultic leaders..
as well as seductive entites...I've dialoged with many of them in several
countries...so I encourage compassion for victims...we may disagree and be
discerning and helpful but not be arrogant, for in the eyes of God we all fall
short of perfection...for it's only by God's grace that we are able to see
the many of the pitfals of a fallen world..If you are following New Age beliefs
ask God's Spirit to guide you in your quest for truth and reality...
Also do your own research as others have below...some listed below were
formally in the New Age Movement and in leadership positions...some
experiencing powerful paranormal experiences until they woke up to the
deception. 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."How Should We Then Live' - The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization,
by Dr. Francis Shaeffer. Fleming H Revell Co. NJ.
1976.