Master Vigil
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It seems that the only new part of new age is the UFO stuff. The rest seems to be taken from OLD times. Why don't they call it OLD age? Or am I wrong in my assumption?
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/newage.htmlinwood said:Well I wanted this forum and am willing to discuss but someone is going to have to give me a definition of New Age first.
I realise it will be broad but I need something.
Because "New Age" is not referring to the newness of the practices. New Age is referring to what many in the 60's and 70's were looking forward as the dawn of the New Age, the Age of Aquarius. New Age philosophy is philosophy about what things will help to carry us into that New Age and "humanity's greatness" that we are supposed to find in it.Master Vigil said:It seems that the only new part of new age is the UFO stuff. The rest seems to be taken from OLD times. Why don't they call it OLD age? Or am I wrong in my assumption?
I have to agree with Master Vigil. It is only called New Age because people have just discovered or were made aware of it within the past century and could not find a catagory to label this understanding. The theories of New Age are as old as civilization itself. Even the theories of UFO's are evident in THE BIBLE with Moses' description of following the "cloud by day", "pillar of fire" at night and all the accounts of angelic visitations, divine interventions, and Ezekiel's "encounter of the third kind" in his respected book.Master Vigil writes: It seems that the only new part of new age is the UFO stuff.The rest seems to be taken from OLD times. Why don't they call it OLD age? Or am I wrong in my assumption?
Yes and no....Master Vigil said:Do you think the only way a spiritual path can last is if they mold it to the "old" ways? Nothing can be created that partially didn't exist before. Is this why new age has done so well for itself? Incorporating ancient practices such as paganism, shamanism, taoism, buddhism, yoga, ufo's (yes ufos were around since aristotle), animism at its roots?