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The author claims the movement's supreme purpose: is to subvert our Judeo-Christian foundation and create a one-world order through a complex network of occult organizations.
Paranoid Nonsense December 13, 2007 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am as concerned as the next person about the detrimental effects of New-Age escapism, post-modernism, and other irrationalisms on the quality of education. If left unchecked, we may well see a fall in our standard of living, or a failure to correct some of the pressing problems of the world.
However, this book merely fights fluffy utopian irrationalism with paranoid millennialist irrationalism. Both sides of the argument have strayed too far into fairyland to be relevant on this planet.
If you want a book that explains the real dangers of both kinds of delusion, read The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
helped me understand the thinking behind the 'anti-new age movement' September 1, 2007 5 out of 9 found this review helpful
As someone who has studied 'occult science' in a quiet way for several years i was curious about exctly why fundamnetalist Christians have such a hatred of the 'new age'. This book certainly helped me answer that question and I see more clearly now how tempting it is to connect the cocnepts of illuminati, world government & new agers into one looming presence. What i've also understood from reading this is that its more comforting to imagine a satanist cult, powerful collective of occult sects, the new world order, or satan himself as running the world than to consider that a fundamnetalist interpretation of Christian scripture might be inapropriate for our times and to be failing a great many peoples' needs.
What this book also showed me was how vague are the hard-line Christians view of what the 'new age' is. Essentially the definition is so all encompassing that almost all practices which are not strictly Christian (in its narrowest sense) get sucked into it. Despite not being a 'new ager' and having had very little to do with any of the new age figures Crumbey mentions I find myself lumped in there too (and my mother also for once having had holistic treatment for a bad foot). There's plenty to criticise about the sillier aspects of the so called 'new age' but much of this results from fumblings of people trying to create spirirtuality in a vacum having been cut off from their religious tradition. I myself remember my first tentative, clumsy steps outside of the materialist secularism that I had been conditioned with since childhood.
Before coming to occult science I was a typical european agnostic prey to all the usual vices and addictions of such a mindset. Through 'occultism' i've come to understand the esoteric apsect of Christianity better and to have a deeper respect for the core of its message, been more loving to those close around me and had more energy and doen more purposefull work which is something that 8 years of having the bible read at me in dry sermons during my teenage years never managed. So through 'occultism' i've come back to Christiantity which I appreciate might be enough to give certain fundamnetalists nightmares but its really not so strange at all if you can step out of the fundamentalist mind set for a second.
Sometimes I idealistically hope that it really is possible for people to accept that religious/spiritual pratices of all sorts are just different inflections of the same impulse to express God: but then books such as Crumbey's serve as a usefull but dis-heartening reality check that some people will happily shred themselves to bits before aknowledging this.
What a LOAD of #%#%$#%! August 31, 2007 2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I agree with everyone who would love to see the rating system changed so this book could get ZERO stars! It's scary to see all the reviews that give this book a postive report. Did we read the same thing? Can people really be so gullible and closed minded in 2007? I guess this book proves that people can and are. And I have to say that all the reviewers that are recovering "Wiccans" or "Pagans", the religion you were following was called Satanism, which is a totally different thing.
I would give it 0 stars if possible August 9, 2007 5 out of 12 found this review helpful
The best part was the last period on the last page. Good for killing flies.
Wholly Babble, for crissake! November 12, 2006 11 out of 27 found this review helpful
To quote the author on page 194: "...patron saint of the New Age movement, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who on five occasions was censored by the Roman catholic church for apostasy..." hmmm... well he's in good company I guess, because Galileo was also censured by the Roman catholic church - in fact he was excommunicated - for his discovery that the Earth actually rotates around the sun, and (God forbid!!!) saying so. God forbid we discover that Genesis, (the so-called "word of god") is incorrect! Bring on the Holy Crusades! Begin the Inquisition! Punish the wicked infidel teachers for exposing their students to the discoveries of Charles Darwin! Keep us in the dark ages of medieval religious beliefs!
This author actually compares Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jim Channon's creative, altruistic, visionary think peace (pun intended) First Earth Battalion to Nazism in this narrow-minded book. On page 2 of First Earth Battalion Jim Channon writes: "I envision an international ideal of service awakening in an emerging class of people who are best called evolutionaries. I see them as soldiers, as youth, and as those who have soldier spirit within them. I see them come together in the name of people and planet to create a new environment of support for the earth mother. Their mission is to protect the possible and nurture the potential. They are the evolutionary guardians who focus their loving protection and affirm their allegiance to people and planet for their own good and for the good of those they serve. I call them evolutionaries, not revolutionaries, for they are potentialists, not pragmatists. They are pioneers, not palace guards..." and "...services rendered by the warriors of the first earth battalion are specifically designed to generate workable solutions to defuse the nuclear time bomb, promote international relations, spread wise energy use, enforce the ecological balance, assist wise technological expansion, and above all, stress human development."
This idealistic vision of worldwide altruistic cooperation instead of warfare is compared to Nazism??? On what planet does Ms. Cumbey reside???
This reactionary and simple-minded book is yet another strident attempt to bolster religious fundamentalism at the expense of new thought. If you prefer a world in which centuries old religious conflicts persist ad infinitum and ad nauseam at the expense of human life, then you'll probably relate to this atavistic defense against any attempt to evolve emotionally and/or spiritually beyond diehard religious fundamentalism. I'm sure it holds a place of honor in the libraries of Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart (urp).
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