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Summary: An excellent overview of the New Age Belief system
Review: It's very easy to fall into the trap of what seems to be a "new" way of thought. This book exposes the truth about the "new" religions: they are old ones with a new look, feel and sound. This is a good book to read if you're witnessing to someone who is caught up in New Age philosophy or religion.
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Summary: THIS BOOK LACKS ALOT OF INFORMATION FOR THE SCHOLAR
Review: THE AUTHOR HAS GOOD INTENTIONS AND MAY EVEN SATISFY THE CURIOUSITY OF THE READER WHO WANTS TO TOUCH THE SURFACE ON THIS SUBJECT,BUT THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO DO SERIOUS RESEARCH ON NEWAGE RELIGION INVADING OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE, THE BOOK JUST DID NOT SEEM TO HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION ON THE CHAPTER TITLES, IT IS MORE LIKE ONE BIG COMPLAINT RATHER THAN AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
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Summary: Best book I've read on the subject!
Review: This book was very well written. I love the way he points things out without condeming anyone who is caught in the newage web. Some books are hard hitting and very blunt not bad but this book was written with as much love I believe that one could've written in.
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Summary: Best book I've read on the subject!
Review: This book was very well written. I love the way he points things out without condeming anyone who is caught in the newage web. Some books are hard hitting and very blunt not bad but this book was written with as much love I believe that one could've written in.
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Summary: Nasty WASP provincialism
Review: This is a horrible little piece of ethnocentric provincialism masquerading as education for parents. If you're the kind of parent who burns your children's rock music because the Christian Right tells you to, you'll love this book. If your worldview is something other than doctrinaire fundamentalist Christianity, you'll want to look elsewhere for an objective overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the New Age movement and modern alternative spirituality in the West.I'm not a New Ager. This is just a bad book for people who think, unless you wanted to use it as an example of a poorly reasoned polemic.
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Summary: Nasty WASP provincialism
Review: This is horrible little piece of ethnocentric provincialism masquerading as education for parents. If you're the kind of parent who burns your children's rock music because the Christian Right tells you to, you'll love this book. If your worldview is something other than doctrinaire fundamentalist Christianity, you'll want to look elsewhere for an objective overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the New Age movement and modern alternative spirituality in the West. I'm not a New Ager. This is just a bad book for people who think, unless you wanted to use it as an example of a poorly reasoned polemic.
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Summary: Fear of a thoughtful planet
Review: Up front: I'm not a follower of or adherent to any soi-disant "new age" philosophy or spirituality, though I do remain open to "new age" ideas about mind-body medicine, meditation, and alternative dispute-resolution. I happened across this book in the "spirituality" section of a chain bookstore which shall remain nameless, while temporarily assigned to duty at the culturally-benighted Ft. Bragg, N.C. To my mind it is a paradigmatic example of one of the most terrifying and pernicious ideas I've ever encountered - the closed-minded, narrow, fear-driven confusion of "protection" with ignorance. What is it about this stream of Christianity that so doubts itself and its truth that it must throw up walls against a wider world? If the Gospel of Jesus is self-evidently and transcendentally true from the perspective of its believers, it need fear no competition in the marketplace of lesser ideas. To want to deprive one's family of access to information is to express contempt and disrespect for them, and is simultaneously an admission regarding one's true feelings about the relative robustness or utility of faith. Conflating Hinduism or Buddhism with UFO worship, the Moonies, and the Jonestown cultists, further, is merely ignorant and insulting. I wish Christians would be secure and comfortable enough in their faith that they wouldn't seek to deny the validity of others' paths to understanding, however flaky they might be.
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Summary: Fear of a thoughtful planet
Review: Up front: I'm not a follower of or adherent to any soi-disant "new age" philosophy or spirituality, though I do remain open to "new age" ideas about mind-body medicine, meditation, and alternative dispute-resolution. I happened across this book in the "spirituality" section of a chain bookstore which shall remain nameless, while temporarily assigned to duty at the culturally-benighted Ft. Bragg, N.C. To my mind it is a paradigmatic example of one of the most terrifying and pernicious ideas I've ever encountered - the closed-minded, narrow, fear-driven confusion of "protection" with ignorance. What is it about this stream of Christianity that so doubts itself and its truth that it must throw up walls against a wider world? If the Gospel of Jesus is self-evidently and transcendentally true from the perspective of its believers, it need fear no competition in the marketplace of lesser ideas. To want to deprive one's family of access to information is to express contempt and disrespect for them, and is simultaneously an admission regarding one's true feelings about the relative robustness or utility of faith. Conflating Hinduism or Buddhism with UFO worship, the Moonies, and the Jonestown cultists, further, is merely ignorant and insulting. I wish Christians would be secure and comfortable enough in their faith that they wouldn't seek to deny the validity of others' paths to understanding, however flaky they might be.
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