There was a bulletin board, covered with advertisements for dozens of healers, body workers and various schools of mystical arts. This was very much what we refer to as the Spiritual Supermarket a plethora of offerings appealing to our sense of spiritual poverty, offering relief in the form of spiritual commodities, higher states of consciousness, travel to higher realms, secrets of the universe. All of it appealing to the underlying diaspora of separateness and disconnectedness that is all pervasive in the human condition. The New Age movement offers no real relief from this societal malaise, thus we refer to the New Age movement as the unwitting partner of the culture it claims to reject, The overriding theme in this spiritual supermarket was that there was something missing which could be provided by the products being sold. Nowhere was the notion evident that perhaps the real problem was that we had too much to begin with, and what we really needed was to let go. Everywhere the message was self centered, me, me, mine. “The masses of men and women in the Western world compulsively avoid true, authentic psychoanalytic investigation of their natures, particularly in regards the so-called ‘darker’ aspects of their personality (the ‘shadow’ self). However, not dealing with the psyche at all proves systemically hazardous. A compromise is required. Hence, the proliferation of the ‘New Age’ philosophy and movement, together with its many permutations. Riddled with ego-customized shams and gimmicks, the application of its methods serve, for the most part, to merely bolster the failing ego and its drives. If we do not autonomously cleanse our psyches, and strive to live morally…and if we continue to violate the natural order because of our inner emotional and psychological toxicity, we will allow the ego to manifest surrogate channels to exorcise its repressions and other negative debris. In short, if we give up the right-rulership of the self, we inevitably breed ‘Orwellian’ political and religious tyrants to take over the job, and turn us into ‘Smiling Depressives’, or worse.”
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:23:03 +0000
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