Mother Worship
The Original Tradition
To Restore the Wholeness of Life
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NEW AGE
SPIRITUALITY:
THE ANSWER TO OUR ANGUISH?
OUR CRUSADE
AGAINST "BUSINESS SPIRITUALITY"
| Obviously, New Age is a thing of the past. The younger generations may have never heard of it. As so often the paradigm's of this movement has shifted from the early initiators (e.g. M.Ferguson), to small experimental groups, and finally to society as a whole. The last category that is still involving itself in it is.....big business. They (still) use it to upgrade effectiveness of the company with the help of "business spirituality". It is one of the most ugly phenomena we have seen recently. In order to save spirituality from these kind of evils in the future I wrote a summary including some of the key aspects of the New Age movement. |
Jesus had two
enemies: the phariseans and
the traders in the temple
Free spirituality from ignorance, egoism and business
| Two paradoxical consequences. On the one
hand escape from it all through practice of meditation and "realization", on the
other an increasing incorporation of New Age "values" into the mainstream of
society. The outcome of the former becomes more clear nowadays. Under the influence of
Asian philosophies the Divine ("Oneness", "That", "God") is
put against the world. The latter is considered transient and therefore illusory and
irrelevant. All efforts are focussed on "reaching the Other Shore" assuming that
"once arrived" you will be permanently "liberated" from "earthly
pollution", and the "shit" of your small self e.g. the personality. Not
surprisingly thus, that everything is centered upon "arriving" as the most badly
wanted goal in life. For most it has become an obsession*. To such an extent, that if not
genuinely achieved you just prentend. After the ritualistic pseudo (mind) approaches
(self-suggestion), fake guru's are the second stage of the current overall spiritual
degeneration. They have added to the confusion instead of offering liberation. It started
with concepts. Realizing Oneness with subsequent identification with it is called
"non-dualism". Wrong! Because identification with Oneness is excluding the
world, it should be called "dualism", like they say: my True Self here and my
miserable common self there. While those who accept, that after Realization the
personality is coming back - cause of a new stage in life in which the latter has to
become integrated into the former in order to finally achieve true Oneness (of the Self,
the self and the world) - are the real non-dualists..... * I have heard that some people even tried the "strangulation" (sex) technique as a last desperate attempt to become Enlightened. However, only those who died reached their goal..... |
| Not surprisingly, considering the inherent degeneration, having set in an early stage already, that the New Age movement became an easy prey of businesses of all kinds. First of all the guru's themselves turned to making money. They sold their soul in exchange for - in their eyes - fabulous incomes. "Re-integration" businesses, the ones who's effort it is to "guide" people back to their (slave) jobs, shooted up as mushrooms. These "facilitators" (nowadays "coaches") became very skillful at applying all kinds of "spiritual techniques". In the mean time the consumer-economy used all the New Age slogans to push people deeper into their addictions with slogans like: "be your self", "just for yourself only", "be happy", "spoil yourself", "you are the most important one" et.etc. The sad highlight were (are) the Zen teachers - coming from such an honorable spiritual tradition - who started to offer "Zen for managers" sesshins. From one of their brochures: "Zen is an excellent instrument to improve your flexibility, your innovative talents and the effectiveness on the work floor. Together you may thus maximize the profits of your company". However, there are some who even go further. Like the Dutch priest......who founded a "business spirituality" faculty at a MBA school. He (knowingly?) spreads the illusion of humanizing big business by bringing "more spirituality" into it. While it should be UTTERLY clear, that no company on earth will voluntarily abandon the principle of profit maximalization, therefore putting "humanistic values" at best in a secondary place. Always will "spirituality" have to serve the ultimate goal - profit - if she wants it or not. To fight this anomaly we are still in the beginning. However, as is the case with every suicidal system, the current crisis itself has made a beginning, already...... |
CAPITALIST KILLING FIELDS
Employees, Relationships, Families,
Communities, Cities, Non-
Western Peoples and Cultures, Nature e.g. the land, the
oceans and the atmosphere.....at last humanity
as a whole
| Summarizing: the New Age has degerated to such an extent that from there no any initiative will come to renew life. However, to not drawing too early conclusions I will turn to Buddhism as a possible "hopeful" to this world and its possible salvation. |
Read
also:
AFTER CHRISTIANITY, WHAT THEN?
THE LAST AND DEFINITIVE "MARIAN DOGMA"
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: THE ANSWER TO OUR ANGUISH?
TRAGEDY OF BUDDHISM?
COULD BUDDHISM PERHAPS SAVE YOU?
FINALLY:
THE ORIGINAL TRADITION
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