Meeting the Shadow by Connie Zweig

Author:Connie Zweig [Zweig, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780593329986
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

34 · NEW AGE FUNDAMENTALISM

JOHN BABBS

I went last night, as I have so many other nights, to one of these wondrous New Age gatherings. And I don’t think I can take it any more. I get sick. I must escape the torture of being blessed to death during evenings such as this. There is something frighteningly unreal about them that I can’t quite put my finger on. All I know is that afterwards I want to scream profanities, drink whiskey out of a bottle, go to sleazy blues joints, and chase wild, wild women.

At this event a beautiful young man told of his travels throughout the globe visiting sacred ceremonial sites—four hundred all told. He has been around the world 14 times in his 34 years, living in many of these places for months, sometimes years on end.

He has a vision, too. A vision of a more peaceful world. A world that’s healthy and clean, that supports each of us in a meaningful work, as we in turn support her and one another.

He described how these sites have been used since four or five thousand years before Christ by ancient pagans and goddess worshippers; how they have been used as interstellar landing sites by visitors from far distant galaxies, and as settlements for ancient civilizations far more advanced than our own.

He also prophesized doom, describing a future full of horror, because we have allowed our right brain lobes to atrophy, resulting in lost connections with these ancient power points. He described how the patriarchal religions of the world have appropriated these sites for their own uses and in the process have destroyed the ancient wisdoms and truths that these places once contained.

I guess I have been to over a hundred of these wonderful evenings. Beautiful people. Soft. Gentle. Spiritual. Visionary. Fascinating. But underlying all of this beauty lurks a darkness, only thinly veiled by beatific platitudes of sweetness. I call this beast New Age Fundamentalism, a belief that I am right and everyone else is wrong, stupid or evil; a belief that I represent the forces of light and goodness, while everyone else is duped by the forces of evil.

It is not ever actually stated. It is veiled, but, still, it is there. I never thought I would ever speak favorably about Jerry Falwell, but at least with Jerry you know where he stands, you know what his judgments are. I can deal with that. He at least has the courage to state them. What is so maddening about New Age Fundamentalists is that their judgments and moralizing are hidden behind facades of New Age doctrine, behind smoke screens of “we love everyone” and “we are one.”

This young man felt that the pagan, Greek and Roman stories and goddess myths which described this grand mystery of life were “truth” and that the Christian, Muslim and Judaic stories were fabrications and distortions of the “real” truth. Further, since he has developed his right-brain functions, he now can “verify” that these sites

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