[whitecrow]

Originally Posted by Esteban

...new age is a movement created by the secret societies to control people's minds. it became very popular within the hippie movement. i ghess the best way to describe new age is HIPPY...just a bunch of non-thinking-too-lazy-to-give-a-damm-people who believe they are smarter than every other hard working people. new age = hippysm = relativism.

The opinion you express as facts is only partly true. I was there, pal. The descent of the hippie movement into drugs and corruption was due in part to the CIA. There were plenty of disinformation sources. But if you didn't live through the 60s you can only imagine what it was like. The Vietnam War went on forever, and every time you turned around one of the "good guys" was getting assassinated. The hippies started out as serious nonviolent revolutionaries, and the government responded because we had power and we scared them.

Originally Posted by Esteban

"Relativism is a legacy of the New Age. I think relativism is quite dangerous. I don't think the Truth requires our belief in it..."

Relativism is hardly a legacy of the New Age. It's older than Pontius Pilate, who mused: "What is truth?" The outlook you express is absolutism. In my view, absolutism is at least as dangerous as relativism - but they are just words. Things like adaptability and flexibility in the ways we respond to our environment are usually virtues. Bullheaded refusal to concede anything may be useful at times, but that is the usual description of an obstacle to truth, not a sign pointing toward it.

For what it's worth I too think there is a lot of nonsense out there. I don't care to label it all "New Age" or any other name. I think it comes in all shapes and sizes. I also think that what we actually know is far less than what we think we do.

I keep my mind propped wide open. I use my innate reasoning ability as best I can, and I use the discernment that I have gained through six decades of living. I always consider that I could be mistaken. I often have been. But my brain is anchored firmly in place. I hasn't fallen out yet.