New Age Thinking
"The world is as you are."
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Whenever you see a New Age offering, you may rightly think: "Illusions sold here. No Illusion too big. Cost no object."
Wouldn't it be nice if you could make the world be the way you imagine it, if you had that power? Wouldn't it be great if everything was perfect, and there were no pain, no suffering, no sickness, no death, no wrong, no evil? Yes. But, that isn't this world. Seeing the world as you imagine it to be, rather than as it really is, is called delusion. Yes, you can imagine something better; that is the basis of creative action to change things for the better. But it can be very self-destructive to simply project your illusions about how the world is or how people are onto the reality, and fail to notice that things are really very different from what you imagine. Imagining there is no such thing as evil does not remove it from the world, only from your awareness; evil keeps happening to countless people at every moment, though you refuse to let that shatter your illusion. This is called living in denial. The more mindless and unaware you become in a sick and evil world, the more you become sheep for the slaughter. Why would anyone want you to accept everything as it is — as is rationalized by the evil system known as "karma"? Because then you remain totally trapped within it. All they need to do is to get you to stop questioning, to imagine that everything is right, that everything is fair and just, that everything is wonderful and perfect, or that you just have not forgiven everyone or yourself enough yet, and you will be trapped in your delusions, thinking you are free.
New Age personalities selling a "better solution" to life's problems, such as Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray, actually have the stated goal of physical immortality. Ms. Ray would like to be "chic," "rich," and "fabulous," forever. Sure. She isn't aging any more than that old 1940-ish barn out there in the field. No lies here; no deception; no delusions. So, why this enormous focus on the physical body, sex, money, and appearance, as if this were the meaning of life? Well, for people of the lie, this is heaven on earth. They can do whatever they want here, and play out their fantasies of sex, power, money, and glorified egotism, and lead others to believe that these things have some ultimate value or meaning. People who are focused so strongly on the physical are often lacking in the true divine spiritual essence, even when they claim to be spiritual. Their definition of "spiritual" is having everything their ego wants, which is pretty much the opposite of true spirituality. No amount of worldly fame or fortune, egomania, or spiritual pretensions will do them much good when they leave this world — and they will. They would rather pretend that this world is heaven, that they are perfect, that everything is perfect, and they can live here in their perfect little world (of illusions) forever — rather than face the facts, the truth, or Reality. This is the classic example of living in delusion and denial.
The New Age philosophies have one problem: they are all false. If they cause you to accept everything and everyone the way they are, to question nothing, to give up true discernment and awareness, then they have served their purpose. These practices, and their many leaders, are generally evil. What greater hogwash could there be than telling you that you are God, that there is no evil, and that your only failing is that you do not love and accept everyone and everything as it is. They say, "In my world, nothing ever goes wrong," and "There is nothing wrong in my world." And overlook the torture, abuse, suffering, sickness, and exploitation of others as if it did not touch them. They don't want to let anything get in the way of their feeling good — they call this "feeling God." They call this being "God," refer to themselves as "God-beings," and see themselves as no different from God. read more ...
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