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I stated mine what's the problem with that.
Or is it that its ok to state your belif/opinion as long as it fits with everyone
else's.
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There is no issue w/ stating a varying view. It need not be homogeneous or agreeing. Your view about these matters wasn’t stated. You just chose to bash someone else’s writing, deeming it ‘a load of BS’ & stereotyping it.
Their is a vast difference between debating the strengths & weaknesses or nuances of a belief system, strongly stating one’s own views, & stating ‘What a load of **, typical ... garbage.’ I suppose there is some point for you in displaying your view about this in this manner. Why do you care what New Agers say, think, or discuss?
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As for bashing New Age, well its called credability. If something starts off with;
"I am an individual expression of the Arcturian Group Mind who has taken a fifth dimensional form. ... ."
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Many have had a very strong feeling that they hark from elsewhere in the Universe w/ quite a few of them having a specific ET connection. This really isn’t that unusual even though it is obviously something that you don’t consider possible.
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What will the average person think who might be looking via the internet for info on energy healing or personal growth/spirituality. Or even somebody from the medical profession who is examining therapies etc.
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What is the average person? Who gets to determine this & remove alll material from the Internet that isn't appropriate for this 'average person'????? Beliefs, interests, & level of consciousness vary considerably.
There are people of all levels as well as of all orientations who are looking for all types of information on the Internet about personal growth/spirituality. Should we dumb down information so it would be completely inoffensive to EVERYONE????? In this case we would promptly remove absolutely all information about personal growth & spirituality from the Internet as there will always be someone who will disagree. For those who are offended at particular information being offered, why is what others want to discuss a problem for them?
There are many who will find Suzan Carroll’s discussing this interesting & not just those who feel a personal off world connection. Her site, multidimensions.com has a wealth of information. As noted before, I don’t recall making this required reading.
It is a really interesting argument that this would be somehow problematic for ‘somebody from the medical profession who is examining therapies etc.‘ Are those in the medical profession seen as lacking the intelligence & discernment to sort through information to select what they want from the Internet?????
BTW, Suzan Carroll is in the medical professional as a professional psychotherapist. Another New Age channeler who is also a professional psychotherapist is Tom Kenyon who channels the Hathors.
http://tomkenyon.com/hathors-archives
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New Age bought a level of awareness to many and thats great but its also spawned a great deal of total rubbish that means that New Age has become its own worst enemy.
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There is no question that there are no shortage of whack jobs in the New Age group. This is, however no different than all spiritual belief systems. Organized religions are seldom defined by the whackiest of its whack jobs, for instance a Jim Jones who voluntarily killed 912 of his followers in a mass poisoning or the street corner doomsday brayer or the fundamentalists who are preaching archaic hateful religious concepts that demean others w/ differing lifestyles or genders. These fringies of organized religion are taken in the context of KNOWing that they only represent the extremes, not the mainstream teachings of organized religion. New Age beliefs are no different about this dynamic of its whack jobs not representing or affecting its mainstream teachings. Many wouldn't consider Carroll's work as a fringe element.
Just as Carroll’s channel wasn’t required reading, New Age beliefs are there to take & leave. This is an individual choice of what beliefs we select.
One of the great strengths about what is called New Age beliefs, or what I think of as post-organized religion spirituality is the ability to have a broad range of changing beliefs. Some will see changing beliefs as being flakey, preferring the rigid, set beliefs of organized religion, but this is to a large extent fallacy. Organized religion, even in the same religion has subsets of the religion that often have quite different beliefs. Additionally, organized religion’s own beliefs have changed markedly over time w/ current beliefs being different than those of even a hundred years ago & diverging considerably from the beliefs of the same religious sect of 500 years ago.
New Age beliefs’ flexibility, w/ an assumed change always occurring is a natural & healthy state. The constant in the Universe is change. Healthy spiritual belief systems will have this built in as an integral part of their system.