You are perceiving a real bias about critical thinking in new age writing. It goes much deeper than this, but fortunately this bias is not shared by all new age writers. Some have some really excellent in depth articles that use both the heart & brain.

In the first wave of new age writers often used concepts that borrowed heavily from organized religion even though often they didn’t realize this. This is not unusual as these type of developments develop. Some of these concepts were about disrespecting our earthly presence.

Some also felt obligated to write in a stylized manner that clearly was not normal writing, that would have an obvious mark of the mystic. LOL. This stylized manner of writing could get a bit tedious. It is fairly dated that one must write ~~~ you know ~~~ ♡ dear ones ♡ ~~~ in a manner ~~~ always ... disjointed ~~~ like it is coming in ~~~ dribs ... drabs ~~~ directly from above ~~~ just barely getting it ~~~ not a really good connection ~~~ nearly floating off ~~~ can barely press my keyboard keys ~~~ never a cogent complete idea or sentence ~~~ just from the heart ♡♡♡ ~~~ never the hated brain (yeah, we can tell!!!). This stylized writing may still be valid for some. To each their own!

The first wave of new age old schoolers (pun intended) focused almost exclusively on the message of love to the extent of being love-bombers. While love is an important part of consciousness, IMO the core feeling is more JOY rather than love. There are many other elements to raising consciousness (moving past fear, discharging undesired energies, etc.) as many found out when they only added love to the mix, yet didn’t get good results, still remaining fearful, & not matering their energies. This was at least a starting point for exploration though.

Unfortunately in their love-bombing heart based fervor this crowd saw fit to demonize our beautiful & NECESSARY mind/intellect when this is just as God-given or Universe-given as our heart energies. In the zeal to advance spiritually the unfortuntate & flawed theme that everything to do w/ 3D including us & our experience in it is NOT OK was promoted. Many contemporary new age writers have moved past this flawed trusim. This heart vs mind business is a classic Piscean era energy, being the Either Or polarity, not recognizing that the option of heart + mind (Aquarian energies) is just as accessible as heart vs mind. Despite preaching unity, often it was lost on this crowd that this unity applied to our emotions & intellect. The artificially generated battle of heart vs mind is really showing THEIR internal battle w/ their own energies. This supposed battle is utter fallacy as BOTH our emotions & intellect do completely different things & BOTH are ✦✦✦ absolutely necessary ✦✦✦ in our energetic/spiritual journey.

Another characteristic of the old school new agers is that they seldom stood in their own authority, feeling that the highest wisdom was to be a scribe, a channel. Many have moved on from being transcribers to connecting more directly w/ their HS to provide this information as they establish their own energetic sovereignty.

Although some of the information the old school new agers provided was valid, some of them made the same missteps of organized religion not maintaining the most useful strength of new age thought, that of being flexible & changing their beliefs. Some beliefs became rigid dogma, just as in organized religion, requiring followers to follow what they thought was valid. It is hoped that some of those whose beliefs became rigid can regain the flexibility & delight of exploring new territory that was their previous strength.

While there are some stumbles the first new agers made, they also opened up a new way of thinking for the masses, just as movements like spirituality or theosophy did 100 years ago. They have been part of the expansive process that is currently accelerating exponentially.

The Dalai Lama on the wisdom of using both our heart & brain, “It is important to join the practice of love and compassion with the practice of insight.
... A combination is needed: a good human heart as well as a good human brain. With these working together, we can achieve a lot.”
“How To See YOURSELF As You Really Are”, pg. 201 (My bolding.)

There are always those who are trotting out something that doesn’t stand up to the slightest investigation. Don’t let this throw you. We should ALWAYS use our discernment in evaluating ALL information. Some new & novel ideas may be ground breaking & worth considering, but some may just be totally useless, delusional, fear mongering, or at best, creative writing.

Discernment- http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...ad.php?t=12105

Others can often go off on pathways that we don’t find useful, but they are responsible for their own journey. It is OK to state our opinion about it, but doing so from a position of nonattachment is very useful for our own energies. Appreciate that they may not understand our POV, but sometimes this may be planting a seed that will grow later. We need not be the one that waters the garden!!!

One of the spiritual missions that people take on is examining things that are highly flawed & problematic such as you mention in the last paragraph & publicly discussing them. This is greeted w/ varying reactions on various sites depending on how much they value open discussion. This is a VERY important dialogue to be having everywhere right now. We didn’t always have the ability to discuss these issues openly in the past & this is a very valuable right. Some on this planet still don’t have the ability to openly discuss spiritual ideas even though this is changing & hopefully will soon be an archaic relic of authoritarianism everywhere.

One of the really important things to challenge right now is the fear mongers. Virtually all messages that are using fear to push or support their position are highly questionable & merit using the utmost discernment. Some of these who are challenging flawed things are involved in paradigm change as well even thought this is a little bit different mission.

Don’t hesitate to speak your mind in the manner that is natural for you. Many messangers are being called as how one writes can be assumed to not be what everyone will relate to.