Many ‘new agers’ and the masons in particular have the view that becoming spiritual means leaving ‘dense matter’ and becoming aware of the ‘divine plan’ in the ‘ethereal realm’. This article argues that to this extent, they and we suffer from the Western malaise of ‘displaced concreteness’. In effect they forget their route and only see the destination: a trip to ‘higher consciousness’ is imagined like a train journey on a train line made by others with predetermined stations. Each previous station is left behind and is of little, or no, subsequent consequence.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 01:54:55 +0000
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